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Illusions Are In The Eye, Not The Mind ( news.exeter.ac.uk )

Nature Index Annual Tables 2023: China tops natural-science table ( www.nature.com )

In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death ( www.quantamagazine.org )

Neanderthals seem to be the first humans to make synthetic materials ( arstechnica.com )

Does it matter if you sit or stand to pee? And what about peeing in the shower? ( theconversation.com )

Does it? What about you, guys? Sitting, standing, or why even bother getting out of bed? Do you care to stop your truck before pee to the bottle? Does your boss let you walk away from the cash desk?

Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance ( www.theguardian.com )

Brain fog after COVID-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain,’ Stanford-led study finds ( med.stanford.edu )

Consciousness and Anesthesia ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov )

Titanic asteroid the size of 84 orcas to pass Earth on Monday - NASA ( m.jpost.com )

Scientists Report World’s First X-ray of a Single Atom in Nature ( news.ohio.edu )

Lingering Effects of Neanderthal DNA Found in Modern Humans ( news.cornell.edu )

New cannibalistic salamander species discovered in Fujian, China ( lemmy.ml )

Once spotted in 1978 and thought to have gone extinct, the Fujian Bamboo Salamander has been found again. According to DNA analysis, this cannibalistic species has an average or above average rate of genetic divergence compared to other salamander species. They also have been witnessed vocalizing, which isn't something...

How Chronic Stress Drives the Brain to Crave Comfort Food ( www.garvan.org.au )

Stress can override natural satiety cues to drive more food intake and boost cravings for sweets.

The ‘Breath’ Between Atoms - A New Building Block for Quantum Technology ( www.ece.uw.edu )

How Did Birds First Take Off? ( www.nytimes.com )

Powerful microscope captures motor proteins in unprecedented detail ( www.nature.com )

The Mystery of the Largest Light in the Sea ( nautil.us )

The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication ( www.nature.com )

Researchers discover that COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse ( medicalxpress.com )

Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source ( phys.org )

NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has flown close enough to the sun to detect the fine structure of the solar wind close to where it is generated at the sun's surface, revealing details that are lost as the wind exits the corona as a uniform blast of charged particles....

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