Something Unexpectedly Cool Happens When You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient ( www.sciencealert.com )
Don’t Get Your Next Covid Booster Quite Yet ( www.nytimes.com )
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Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest ( www.livescience.com )
A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re Expecting ( www.nytimes.com )
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Gloomy climate calculation: Scientists predict a collapse of the Atlantic ocean current to happen mid-century ( www.sciencedaily.com )
Does anybody know if such a collapse would happen instantaneous or more gradual? With the massive amount of water in motion it feels like it would take a long time to stop, or are fluids behaving differently?
Aggression Is A Result of Self-Control, Not Lack Thereof ( neurosciencenews.com )
Summary: A new study contests the belief that aggression stems from poor self-control. Instead, it suggests that aggression is often a deliberate, controlled act, inflicted to maximize retribution....
Computer Made From Human Brain Cells Can Perform Voice Recognition ( futurism.com )
Strongest Solar Flare of Solar Cycle 25 | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center ( www.swpc.noaa.gov )
An X2.8 flare (R3) occurred from Region 3514; located over the far NW area of the Sun. This is likely one of the largest solar radio events ever recorded. Radio communication interference with aircraft were reported by multiple NWS Center Weather Service Units (CWSU) co-located at FAA facilities. These impacts were felt from one...
Why BMI is flawed — and how to redefine obesity ( www.nature.com )
The main diagnostic test for obesity — the body mass index — accounts for only height and weight, leaving out a slew of factors that influence body fat and health.
A leading theory of consciousness has been branded ‘pseudoscience’ ( theconversation.com )
Civil war has broken out in the field of consciousness research. More than 100 consciousness researchers have signed a letter accusing one of the most popular scientific theories of consciousness – the integrated information theory – of being pseudoscience....
A quarter of people are undoing the benefits of healthy meals by unhealthy snacking ( www.eurekalert.org )
Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world ( www.bbc.com )
Scientists use quantum device to slow chemical process by factor of 100bn ( www.sydney.edu.au )
New research - and a world-first experimental result - display the potential for using quantum technology to explore new designs in material science, drugs or solar energy harvesting.
Screen time linked with developmental delays, study finds | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
A study in JAMA Pediatrics found a relationship between screen time as a baby and developmental delays as a toddler. This draws more ground to further investigate the health effects of electronics usage by children and what types of media have detrimental effects on development.
Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature ( www.bbc.com )
When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the ‘Back Door’ ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
What a journey for this beetle!
Satisfaction with online dating app depends on what you're looking for ( scopeblog.stanford.edu )
The Evidence is Building that Dark Matter is Made of Axions ( www.universetoday.com )
Algae as a surprising meat alternative and source of environmentally friendly protein ( news.exeter.ac.uk )
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These bats are the only mammals known to mate without non penetrative sex ( www.sciencenews.org )
This study in serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) shows that the penis is used as a ‘copulatory arm’ rather than an intromittent organ, revealing a novel copulatory behaviour in mammals. DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0
1 in 50 Million Chance: US Woman With Rare Double Uterus Is Pregnant in Both ( www.sciencealert.com )
What is the radius of the hydrogen atom? - ACollierAstro ( yt.artemislena.eu )
Your brain finds it easy to size up four objects but not five — here’s why ( www.nature.com )
An experiment found that the brain uses one set of neural circuits to identify the numbers 1–4; these circuits are very specific to their own numbers. A separate set of circuits respond to the numbers 5–9; these are less precise, and are activated by adjacent numbers....
What to know about COVID as hospitalizations go up and some places bring back masks ( www.usatoday.com )
A late-summer uptick in COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths has some schools, hospitals and other businesses scrambling to keep illness from spreading....
Opinion | In Wuhan, doctors knew the truth. They were told to keep quiet. ( wapo.st )
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