Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness ( www.afterbabel.com )
Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas ( www.popularmechanics.com )
32-year-old blogger's research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31 ( fortune.com )
Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time ( quillette.com )
Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later ( newatlas.com )
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Milestone: mRNA Cancer Vaccine Prompts Robust Immune Reaction Against Malignant Brain Tumors ( epicnews.ca )
Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? ( www.vox.com )
Why loneliness is bad for your health ( www.nature.com )
Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside ( journals.sagepub.com )
Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch ( futurism.com )
Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, has died at 94 ( mailings.ed.ac.uk )
In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black ( www.businessinsider.com )
Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism
USC Study Confirms the Rotation of Earth’s Inner Core has Slowed ( today.usc.edu )
A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down ( www.smithsonianmag.com )
From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up ( www.npr.org )
A study published in the British Medical Journal finds people who consume high amounts of these foods have an increased risk of anxiety, depression, obesity, metabolic syndrome, certain cancers including colorectal cancer and premature death....
Surprise discovery “fundamentally changes” history of humans and Neanderthals in northwest Europe ( cosmosmagazine.com )
Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores ( theconversation.com )
Chinese team reports patient’s diabetes cured with cell therapy in world first ( www.scmp.com )
Climate change is rewiring fish brains — and probably ours, too ( grist.org )
Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria ( www.imperial.ac.uk )
New 'Chicken from Hell' Discovered — A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit ( www.scientificamerican.com )
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Dataset confirms that a vegan diet is dramatically better across a range of environmental measures ( phys.org )
Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere ( www.scientificamerican.com )
The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA fragments from fungi that mycologists can’t link to known organisms. These slippery beings are so widespread scientists are calling them “dark fungi.” It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeates the universe.
Organism with largest genome packs 50x more DNA than a human's ( newatlas.com )
It's a fern.