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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...

Duration of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine persistence and factors associated with cardiac involvement in recently vaccinated patients - npj Vaccines (www.nature.com)

Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)

ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter (home.cern)

Matt Strassler blog post about it...

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...

Chandrayaan-3’s measurements of sulfur open the doors for lunar science and exploration (theconversation.com)

India’s Chandrayaan-3 rover has found sulfur on the Moon’s surface at higher concentrations than previously seen. Sulfur, a useful resource, could pave the way for future Moon bases

Migratory birds can adapt to climate change by moving north, study shows (phys.org)

China beats US for first time in global scientific ‘hot papers’ ranking (www.scmp.com)

The UK’s post-Brexit EU science deal: a graphical guide (www.nature.com)

How the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Really works [Arvin Ash] (youtu.be)

This famously complex experiment gets explained simply

JWST's first triple-image supernova could save the Universe (bigthink.com)

Google’s AI protein folder IDs structure where none seemingly existed (arstechnica.com)

Eureka! Groundbreaking Study Uncovers Origin of ‘Conscious Awareness’ (www.fau.edu)

Study finds human-driven mass extinction is eliminating entire branches of the tree of life (phys.org)

A study found that people who work remotely four or more days a week can reduce their carbon footprint by up to 54 percent, and those who do so up to four days a week can reduce it by up to 29. (www.scientificamerican.com)

China dominates in high-quality natural-science research (asiatimes.com)

Genetically Modified Bacteria Break Down Plastics in Saltwater (news.ncsu.edu)

Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts (www.bbc.com)

Genetically modified bacteria may eat up ocean plastic waste (interestingengineering.com)

The research team conducted experiments involving two bacterial species: Vibrio natriegens and Ideonella sakaiensis....

Green hydrogen successfully produced from plastic waste (interestingengineering.us9.list-manage.com)

Low-emissions strategy that could pay for itself helps scientists achieve high-yield hydrogen gas and high-value graphene.

Synthesis of sustainable sulfur-containing polycarbonates from xylose and carbonyl sulfide (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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World Community Grid passes 820,000 years of donated computation time towards finding new genetic predictors of cancer (www.worldcommunitygrid.org)

World Community Grid is a volunteer computing project where people can donate their computer’s spare computational power to science (similar to folding@home). This week they announced some results of their research and having passed the 800,000 CPU-year mark which is pretty incredible....

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