The Remains of an Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth (www.caltech.edu)
The Simulation Hypothesis: Exploring a Radical New Law of Physics (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Strength is in This Glass's DNA (www.bnl.gov)
Lilium has begun assembly of the propulsion system for its electric vertical take-off and landing Lilium Jet (www.flightglobal.com)
Cosmic Web Lights Up in the Darkness of Space (www.caltech.edu)
Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While astronomers have known about the cosmic web for decades, and even glimpsed the glow of its filaments around bright cosmic objects called...
Behold the world’s oldest sandals, buried in a “bat cave” over 6,000 years ago (arstechnica.com)
In the 19th century, miners in southern Spain unearthed a prehistoric burial site in a cave containing some 22 pairs of ancient sandals woven out of esparto (a type of grass). The latest radiocarbon dating revealed that those sandals could be 6,200 years old—centuries older than similar footwear found elsewhere around the...
Tungsten oxide hydrate: the future of smart windows (interestingengineering.com)
ABSTRACT: The independent modulation of visible and near-infrared light by a single material, termed dual-band electrochromism, is highly desirable for smart windows to enhance the energy efficiency of buildings. Tungsten oxides are commercially important electrochromic materials, exhibiting reversible visible and near-infrared...
Scientists find way to wipe a cell's memory to reprogram it as a stem cell (www.uwa.edu.au)
Interview with Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman (mRNA vaccine inventors) (www.youtube.com)
I made a lemmy community specifically about scientific computing (lemmy.ml)
If you are interested in the topic, come on over !scientificcomputing
Longevity Gene from Naked Mole Rats Extends Lifespan of Mice (www.rochester.edu)
The successful transfer of a gene that produces HMW-HA paves the way for improving the health and lifespan of humans, too....
Wildfires and Farming Activities May Be Top Sources of Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk, Cases of Dementia (news.umich.edu)
En route to the moon, Russia beams back first mission images (mashable.com)
China ranks 1st in world in scientific research output, most-cited papers: report (www.yahoo.com)
Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson (www.youtube.com)
www.hexbear.net/post/277882
Liquid AI, a new MIT spinoff, wants to build an entirely new type of AI (techcrunch.com)
Spain wants to change how it evaluates scientists—and end the ‘dictatorship of papers’ (www.science.org)
Spain’s much-maligned system for evaluating scientists, in which the sole criterion for career advancement is the publication of papers, is set to be overhauled under new proposals from the country’s National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA)....
Mount Vesuvius’ eruption turned human nerve cell tendrils to glass (www.sciencenews.org)
Covid pandemic ‘had lasting impact’ on brain health of people aged 50 or over (www.theguardian.com)
Here’s the article they’re reporting on: www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/…/fulltext
Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid (www.nytimes.com)
A team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long Covid, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with long Covid. They said that the biological pathway that their research outlines could unite many of the major theories of what causes long Covid: lingering remnants of the...
What is the human body’s limit, when it comes to extreme heat? (www.nature.com)
As deadly heatwaves become more common, researchers are studying what the human body can tolerate.
New study finds children of color and from low-income families are exposed to more toxic chemicals and experience greater harm (www.eurekalert.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/742099...
JWST's first triple-image supernova could save the Universe (bigthink.com)
Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts (www.bbc.com)
