An unexpected way to upcycle: Plastic waste transforms into soap ( news.vt.edu )
‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us? ( www.nytimes.com )
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More young women are getting breast cancer. They want answers. ( wapo.st )
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Sexual harassment and stereotyping: How coastal sciences are failing women in the field ( phys.org )
Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize ( www.nature.com )
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a surprising number of young galaxies containing massive black holes at their centers, churning up the gas within only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Spectroscopic data indicates that these “hidden little monsters” harbor black holes weighing...
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For the first time, scientists have found evidence of menopause in wild chimpanzees ( www.abc.net.au )
Urine samples collected from wild chimpanzees in Uganda over decades have revealed older female chimps undergo hormonal changes much like those in menopausal humans.
Debate settled? Oldest human footprints in North America really are 23,000 years old, study finds ( www.livescience.com )
NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft ( apnews.com )
Irregular sleep patterns associated with harmful gut bacteria ( www.kcl.ac.uk )
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.
Why the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ Never Won a Nobel Prize ( www.nytimes.com )
Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity - Jewish and a woman— barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly translated letters show.
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.
The Oldest Living Shark ( www.livescience.com )
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Pairing of electrons in an artificial atom leads to a breakthrough ( interestingengineering.com )
A team of physicists from Hamburg University has made a breakthrough in the field of quantum physics by observing a rare state of matter that was predicted by Japanese theorists more than half a century ago....
The key to depression, obesity, alcoholism – and more? Why scientists are so excited by the vagus nerve ( www.theguardian.com )
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Wolves and dogs recruit human partners in the cooperative string-pulling task ( www.nature.com )
Abstract In comparison to non-human animals, humans are highly flexible in cooperative tasks, which may be a result of their ability to understand a partner’s role in such interactions. Here, we tested if wolves and dogs could flexibly adjust their behaviour according to whether they needed a partner to solve a cooperative...
Retina scans could detect parkinson 7 years before first symptoms ( n.neurology.org )
A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re Expecting ( www.nytimes.com )
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Ancient Worm Resurrected After 46,000 Years of Death-Defying Limbo ( www.sciencealert.com )
Chimpanzees Go Through Menopause, Too ( www.nytimes.com )
It is not obvious why selection should favor menopause or the continued survival of individuals that can no longer reproduce. The famous Grandmother Hypothesis had been used to explain the evolutionary significance of menopause. A new study conducted on the Ngogo chimpanzees community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda challenges...
Researchers have successfully transferred a gene to produce tobacco plants that lack pollen and viable seeds, while otherwise growing normally ( news.ncsu.edu )
