Top

ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education ( www.nature.com )

Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge | Quanta Magazine ( www.quantamagazine.org )

🍿

Room Temperature Superconductors - This Changes EVERYTHING! ( youtu.be )

Article proposes variant of current ΛCDM cosmological model that makes the universe twice as old ( doi.org )

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1721793...

Ecological doom-loops: Why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected ( phys.org )

Tiny living robots made from human cells surprise scientists ( www.cnn.com )

Journal article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…/advs.202303575

UK first to approve CRISPR treatment for diseases: what you need to know ( www.nature.com )

Study via questionnaire (n = 126) about the perception of chemistry in No Man's Sky and how games can be used by science communicators. ( journals.sagepub.com )

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/9197489...

Got Garlic Breath? Scientists Find a Possible New Remedy ( www.sciencealert.com )

Irisin reduces amyloid-β by inducing the release of neprilysin from astrocytes following downregulation of ( www.cell.com )

Lay Summary...

The U.S. Government Wants Your Dead Butterflies ( www.nytimes.com )

Neural Networks Help Us Understand How the Brain Recognizes Numbers ( hai.stanford.edu )

[DE] OpenStreetMap in the classroom: application possibilities, potentials and challenges ( www.bpb.de )

Spider inspires scientists to create water repellant marvel ( interestingengineering.com )

Researchers have demonstrated a general strategy to achieve the long-term stability of plastrons (known to be unstable underwater) on aerophilic surfaces for previously unattainable underwater applications by taking inspiration from diving bell spider, Argyroneta Aquatica, which spends most of its life underwater. This can open...

The Brouhaha Over Consciousness and “Pseudoscience” — John Horgan (The Science Writer) ( johnhorgan.org )

“Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases ( pme.uchicago.edu )

LK99

(or as I call it, lead-kopper99 😀)...

Lab-Grown Human Brain Organoids Go Animal-Free ( neurosciencenews.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 It’s Hard to Break Plastics ( physics.aps.org )

Downregulation of transposable elements extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans ( scitechdaily.com )

This study shows that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the downregulation of active TE families extends lifespan. These findings link DNA activity to aging and opens up new possibilities in medical and biological research for health improvement and age determination. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40957-(open access)

science