How Quantum Physics Describes Earth’s Weather Patterns | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Not what I initially expected this article to be about, but I do love this kind of cross-cutting research that takes ideas from one field and applies them to a seemingly entirely different field. (Also makes me wish I’d been able to take a topology class at some point.)
[xkcd] Physics will make you rich! ( xkcd.com )
Air pollution linked to a rise in antibiotic resistance that imperils human health ( www.theguardian.com )
Liquid Metal Battery Will Be on the Grid Next Year ( spectrum.ieee.org )
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction ( www.theguardian.com )
An editor resigned in protest. Now, Wiley is firing him four months earlier than he planned to leave. ( retractionwatch.com )
Scientists Create Single-Crystal Iron Just Like Earth's Core ( www.geologyin.com )
T cells burn out just a few hours after encountering cancer tumors ( arstechnica.com ) German
NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2 ( www.nasa.gov )
Irregular sleep patterns associated with harmful gut bacteria ( www.kcl.ac.uk )
Award-winning images capture colorful scenes from microscopic world ( wapo.st )
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What’s going on with the reports of a room-temperature superconductor? ( arstechnica.com )
Best explainer I’ve seen so far on where LK-99 is at.
Winning the Fields Medal (with James Maynard) - Numberphile ( www.youtube.com )
LK99
(or as I call it, lead-kopper99 😀)...
Many people feel they work in pointless, meaningless jobs, research confirms ( phys.org )
CERN and NASA join forces to commit to a research future that is open and accessible for all ( www.home.cern )
This Ancient Whale May Have Been the Heaviest Animal Ever ( www.nytimes.com )
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Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel ( scitechdaily.com )
“Researchers have developed a highly robust material with an extremely low density by constructing a structure using DNA and subsequently coating it in glass.”...
When This Beetle Gets Eaten by a Frog, It Heads for the ‘Back Door’ ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
What a journey for this beetle!
Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Superconductor breakthrough replicated twice on preliminary testing ( www.tomshardware.com )
How scientists work to correct the record when there is an error in a paper ( wapo.st )
Probe of Stanford president shows how people and institutions work to safeguard science...
NIH announces long covid treatment studies with hundreds of patients ( wapo.st )
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Family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine, settles with biotech company ( apnews.com )
HeLa cells have changed the field of medicine and have led to multitudes of life saving innovations. Unfortunately, the donor, Henrietta Lacks, did not consent to the harvesting of the cell line, and until now, her and her family have not received compensation from companies that profited from products tested and designed with...