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....
25.000 old prehistoric pyramid in West Java ( onlinelibrary.wiley.com )
See also https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AGUFMNS33B0785N/abstract
Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are industrial pollutants ( bigthink.com )
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
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 )
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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....
Scientists Tame Biological Trigger of Deadly Huntington’s Disease ( news.ucr.edu )
Interdisciplinary Research Could Lead to New Targeted Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis ( news.cuanschutz.edu )
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...
[Some] Secrets of Cat Evolution Have Finally Been Revealed ( www.sciencealert.com )
Pink Floyd Song Reconstructed From Brain Scans ( journals.plos.org )
Researchers who recorded direct neural signals from people listening to “Another Brick in the Wall” have reproduced a recognizable version of the song from the neural data.
The Remains of an Ancient Planet Lie Deep Within Earth ( www.caltech.edu )
Scientists spot viruses attaching to other viruses for first time ( newatlas.com )
Network medicine framework reveals generic herb-symptom effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine ( www.science.org )
NASA’s Lucy mission closely flew by the asteroid Dinkinesh ( edition.cnn.com )
New Atlas: Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study ( newatlas.com )
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Protein Interaction Causing Rare But Deadly Vaccine-Related Clotting Found ( www.birmingham.ac.uk )
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water ( news.mit.edu )
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Humans plunder the periodic table while turning blind eye to the risks of doing so, say researchers ( phys.org )
Red meat consumption associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk ( www.hsph.harvard.edu )
It's worth noting that the correlation held for total red meat consumption along with considering just processed red meats and unprocessed red meat separately...
A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue ( www.science.org )
World's Biggest Energy Agency Warns 1 Fossil Fuel Must Be Cut Immediately ( www.sciencealert.com )
Scientist concludes: "We don't have free will" ( www.latimes.com )
Scientists propose sweeping new law of nature, expanding on evolution ( www.reuters.com )
"The authors proposed three universal concepts of selection: the basic ability to endure; the enduring nature of active processes that may enable evolution; and the emergence of novel characteristics as an adaptation to an environment."
