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The furry puss caterpillar's venom packs a painful punch. Now new research shows it came from an unlikely source ( theconversation.com )

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John Goodenough has died ( www.thehindubusinessline.com )

Kids Keep Eating Magnets, And Surgeons Say There's Only 1 Way to Stop It ( www.sciencealert.com )

Liquid Metal Battery Will Be on the Grid Next Year ( spectrum.ieee.org )

Live birth of chimeric monkey with high contribution from embryonic stem cells ( www.nature.com )

Scientists have created an infant ‘chimeric’ monkey by injecting a monkey embryo with stem cells from a genetically distinct donor embryo. The resulting animal is the first live-born chimeric primate to have a high proportion of cells originating from donor stem cells. However, the monkey had to be euthanized when it was...

Surprise Discovery About Dopamine May Help Explain Parkinson's ( www.sciencealert.com )

This Ancient Whale May Have Been the Heaviest Animal Ever ( www.nytimes.com )

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Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock ( news.ku.dk )

How a heatwave can affect your brain and mood ( www.npr.org )

Dresser says the evidence suggests that heat can influence us in sometimes indiscernible ways. “All of these [studies] seem to point to a reduced ability to think clearly and quickly and efficiently when the body is too hot,” he says....

1.6-billion-year-old steroid fossils hint at a lost world of microbial life ( www.sciencenews.org )

Wild. I for one would not have guessed that we could detect even moderately complex organic molecules from 1.6 billion years ago....

Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine ( www.nytimes.com )

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Newly created ultra-hard material rivals diamond ( phys.org )

This AI model can tell if you're at high risk of lung cancer by analyzing a single X-ray scan ( www.livescience.com )

AI laser that reads heartbeat through the throat could replace stethoscopes ( www.theguardian.com )

Memory Block: How Saturated Fats May Hinder Memory Formation in the Aging Brain ( scitechdaily.com )

A new study suggests that a high-fat diet may impair memory by causing inflammatory effects and issues in cell-signaling management in the brain cells, especially as people age, but the omega-3 fatty acid DHA may help mitigate these effects. The research, focusing on microglia and hippocampal neurons, found that palmitic acid...

Blue-Green Algae Is Filling Rivers With Toxic Sludge ( www.wired.co.uk )

Harmful algal blooms are taking over as the world warms and grows richer in carbon dioxide—and there’s no easy fix.

Buried under the ice ( wapo.st )

Scientists came to Greenland on an unprecedented mission to drill for rocks that would reveal the fate of this fast-melting ice sheet....

Why does your hair curl in the summer? A chemist explains the science behind hair structure ( theconversation.com )

Electricity Seen Flowing Like Liquid in Strange Metals ( www.sciencealert.com )

Ancient Tablet Shows Babylonians Knew Pythagorean Theorem 1000 Years Before Pythagoras — Ultra Unlimited ( www.ultra-unlimited.com )

Students with higher social class backgrounds might be healthier because they sleep better ( www.psypost.org )

Webb Reveals New Structures Within Iconic Supernova ( webbtelescope.org )

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has begun the study of one of the most renowned supernovae, SN 1987A (Supernova 1987A). Located 168,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, SN 1987A has been a target of intense observations at wavelengths ranging from gamma rays to radio for nearly 40 years, since its discovery in...

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