An immunologist explains why the immune system works best when balanced, not 'boosted' ( www.livescience.com )
How thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making ( www.theguardian.com )
How Much Dietary Fat Do We Really Need? ( www.strongerbyscience.com )
T-cells Infiltrate Brain, Cause Respiratory Distress in Condition Affecting the Immunocompromised ( news.illinois.edu )
Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea ( www.scientificamerican.com )
NIH announces long covid treatment studies with hundreds of patients ( wapo.st )
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Brazil child cancer deaths linked to soy farming, study finds ( www.reuters.com )
The Orion Nebula Is Full of Impossible Enigmas That Come in Pairs ( www.nytimes.com )
We have discovered a lot in this universe. Planets that orbit stars at right angles. Forbidden worlds that have cheated death. Space explosions that defy explanation....
T cells burn out just a few hours after encountering cancer tumors ( arstechnica.com ) German
Reports of a room temperature / room pressure superconductor discovered ( arxiv.org )
Leonardo da Vinci noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein ( arstechnica.com )
Engineers re-created one of Leonardo’s experiments with a modern apparatus and found he produced a value for the gravitational constant, G, to around 97 percent accuracy. What makes this finding even more astonishing is that Leonardo achieved this without a means of accurate timekeeping and without the benefit of calculus,...
Buy now, pay later: Consumer credit researcher warns of overspending risks this Christmas ( phys.org )
Huge survey finds US$10,000 pay gap for disabled scientists ( www.nature.com )
Researchers identify 'unicorn' defense mechanism that protects bacteria from antibiotics ( phys.org )
What’s that stuff in your bellybutton? Science has the answer. ( wapo.st )
Hairy bellies have more lint and other findings from the research on our navels...
A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished ( nautil.us )
Like many of you, birds are very special to me. I connect with them like I don’t any other living creature, save my wife and kids. I photograph them. I’ve covered my body in nothing but bird tattoos....
Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show ( apnews.com )
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Over-40s on antibiotics ‘nearly 50 per cent more likely to develop Crohn’s disease’. Researchers followed more than six million people in Denmark for more than 10 years and found that taking antibi... ( gut.bmj.com )
‘Treasure trove’ of new CRISPR systems holds promise for genome editing ( www.nature.com )
Red algae proteins grafted into tobacco double plant growth | Cornell Chronicle ( news.cornell.edu )
Britain’s shorter children reveal a grim story about austerity, but its scars run far deeper | Michael Marmot ( www.theguardian.com )
Since 2010, our five-year-olds have been showing signs of reduced growth, a likely symptom of policies that have led to impoverished lives
Ancient Life as Old as the Universe - Kurzgesagt ( yt.artemislena.eu )
Some say the sky lit up before Morocco’s earthquake. It’s a real phenomenon. ( wapo.st )
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Europe spent €600 million to recreate the human brain in a computer. How did it go? ( www.nature.com )
A CRISPR-based method makes T cells that thwart teens’ cancer ( www.nature.com )
does anyone has access to the full white paper? I looked on z-lib and Google scholar and neither has them yet. I'm sure it will be findable eventually, but I'll probably have forgotten about it by then. @piracy