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Climate change may lead to bigger atmospheric rivers (climate.nasa.gov)

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)....

“Mummified” Bees From the Time of the Pharaohs Discovered in Portugal (scitechdaily.com)

Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’ (www.cnn.com)

The most powerful cosmic ray since the Oh-My-God particle puzzles scientists (www.nature.com)

Scientists have detected the most powerful cosmic ray seen in more than three decades. But the exact origin of this turbocharged particle from outer space remains a mystery, with some suggesting that it could have been generated by unknown physics....

The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis: Research suggests that dinosaurs may have influenced how human beings age (phys.org)

Strong solar storm could trigger colorful aurora Thursday night (www.washingtonpost.com)

‘Politicians don’t understand science’: advisers give evidence at UK COVID inquiry (www.nature.com)

Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science (doi.org)

The bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant information (www.eurekalert.org)

Air Cleaners Don’t Stop You Getting Sick, Research Shows (www.uea.ac.uk)

Air filtration systems do not reduce the risk of picking up viral infections, according to new research from the University of East Anglia....

Study finds coffee inhibits SARS-CoV-2 (cellandbioscience.biomedcentral.com)

Elusive egg-laying mammal caught on camera for the first time (www.popsci.com)

Do lemmings actually jump off of cliffs? | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

25.000 old prehistoric pyramid in West Java (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

See also ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/…/abstract

Novel C. diff Structures are Required for Infection, Offer New Therapeutic Targets (news.vumc.org)

Iron storage “spheres” inside the bacterium C. diff — the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections — could offer new targets for antibacterial drugs to combat the pathogen.

How easy it is to publish a false hypothesis: people were nearly a year-and-a-half younger after listening to “When I’m Sixty-Four” (journals.sagepub.com)

Also this research.uh.edu/…/behind-closed-drawers-the-file-…

Team Creates Synthetic Enzymes To Unravel Molecular Mysteries (news.utdallas.edu)

University of Texas at Dallas bioengineers have developed synthetic enzymes that can control the behavior of the signaling protein Vg1, which plays a key role in the development of muscle, bone and blood in vertebrate embryos....

When light flashes for a quintillionth of a second, things get weird (www.popsci.com)

Scientists Tame Biological Trigger of Deadly Huntington’s Disease (news.ucr.edu)

Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)

Interdisciplinary Research Could Lead to New Targeted Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis (news.cuanschutz.edu)

Here's how high-speed diving kingfishers may avoid concussions (www.sciencenews.org)

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins (www.newscientist.com)

By mulling over colliding bubbles on a cosmological scale, physicists are finding cause for speculation about fresh sparks of cosmic creation. It is possible, they say, that in the weeks after the big bang there was a second, similarly profound moment of transformation. This one may have spawned monstrous shadow particles...