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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....

A novel approach for removing microplastics from water (phys.org)

Chinese scientists have developed a gene-editing tool that doesn’t use CRISPR (www.scmp.com)

New Study Highlights Feasibility and Optimization of Ammonia-Based Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality (news.unist.ac.kr)

CRISPR used to 'reprogram' cancer cells into healthy muscle in the lab (www.livescience.com)

Research paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2303859120

90% Reduction: Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Eradicates Plaques and Cavities (scitechdaily.com)

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Most bees live underground. X-ray images reveal how they build their nests (www.science.org)

Research paper: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0016706123003324

Evidence for and projection of multi-breadbasket failure caused by climate change (www.sciencedirect.com)

Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg (www.bbc.co.uk)

Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019 (bmjoncology.bmj.com)

Zhao J, Xu L, Sun J, et al Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019 BMJ Oncology 2023;2:e000049. doi: 10.1136/bmjonc-2023-000049...

Workplace Wellness Programs Are a Total Sham (slate.com)

Observation of an Alice ring in a Bose–Einstein condensate - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)

New Genes and Natural Toxins Offer Hope for Cancer Patients Unresponsive to Chemotherapy (www.qmul.ac.uk)

VFX Artist Reveals the TRUE Scale of NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS (yewtu.be)

Discovery Opens Possibility of New Ion Channel-Targeting Drugs (news.weill.cornell.edu)

Using Evidence From Last Ice Age, Scientists Predict Effects of Rising Seas on Coastal Habitats (www.rutgers.edu)

Blood Clotting Proteins Might Help Predict Long COVID Brain Fog (www.scientificamerican.com)

From the lab to the World Cup: meet footballer–scientist Michelle Alozie (www.nature.com)

The professional athlete and research technician explains why focus, collaboration and teamwork are important on and off the pitch.

Newly Engineered Bacterial Enzyme Versions Reveal How Antibiotics Could Be More Potent (nyulangone.org)

Upcycled plastic can be turned into soap, researchers find (scrippsnews.com)

Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to upcycle plastic into soap. Around 120 grams to 130 grams of plastic can make 100 grams of soap.

Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study (phys.org)

Air pollution is more dangerous to the health of the average person on planet Earth than smoking or alcohol, with the threat worsening in its global epicenter South Asia even as China fast improves, a study showed Tuesday

A Microscopic Ode to the Tiny Worlds Found in Rainwater Puddles (kottke.org)

New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour (www.sustainableplastics.com)

Good bit of science detective work (image manipulation, paper now retracted) (www.pnas.org)

Reasonably speedy retraction this time, six months from when the problems were first noted on PubPeer (pubpeer.com/…/58E5F4120AB02E9565E3B4DE303EC3). Nine years after publication…...