Platelets Can Replicate the Benefits of Exercise in the Brain ( qbi.uq.edu.au )
Scientists Trapped Light Inside a Metamaterial and Made It 10x More Magnetic ( www.popularmechanics.com )
This Molecule May Have Seeded Earth Life ( nautil.us )
Microplastic Pollution: Plants Could Be The Answer ( news.ubc.ca )
Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeast Australia, scientists say ( www.australiangeographic.com.au )
Archived version: https://archive.ph/z5Pql...
Wildfires and Farming Activities May Be Top Sources of Air Pollution Linked to Increased Risk, Cases of Dementia ( news.umich.edu )
LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery ( www.nature.com )
Scientists Believe Light Speed Travel Is Possible. Here’s How. ( www.popularmechanics.com )
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Surprise COVID Discovery Helps Explain How Coronaviruses Jump Species ( newsroom.uvahealth.com )
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty ( www.nature.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1522825...
Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down ( www.vice.com )
What's that saying again? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? I don't think we're quite there yet, but for all of you MOdified Newtonian Dynamics fans (and Dark Matter haters) out there here's a bit of good news.
American Airlines, Google say they can wipe out most contrails, but more fuel required ( techxplore.com )
En route to the moon, Russia beams back first mission images ( mashable.com )
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe ( www.quantamagazine.org )
Years before she was even sure the James Webb Space Telescope would successfully launch, Christina Eilers started planning a conference for astronomers specializing in the early universe. She knew that if — preferably, when — JWST started making observations, she and her colleagues would have a lot to talk about. Like a time...
Researchers Engineer Bacteria that Can Detect Tumor DNA ( today.ucsd.edu )
Scientists from UC San Diego and Australia have engineered bacteria that detect the presence of tumor DNA in live organisms. Their innovation could pave the way to new biosensors capable of identifying various infections, cancers and other diseases.
Dataset confirms that a vegan diet is dramatically better across a range of environmental measures ( phys.org )
We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever ( www.chronicle.com )
Archived version: https://archive.ph/WMU7k...
SARS-CoV-2 can damage mitochondrion in heart, other organs, study finds ( www.cidrap.umn.edu )
China ranks 1st in world in scientific research output, most-cited papers: report ( www.yahoo.com )
Discovery in Nanomachines within Living Organisms: Cytochromes P450 (CYP450s) Unleashed as Living Soft Robots ( en.huji.ac.il )
Edit: Not sure why the original link is no longer working, but heres an alternative...
More than Half of Earth’s Species Live Underground ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Dopamine Controls Movement, Not Just Rewards ( news.northwestern.edu )
The Virus is Learning New Tricks and We Humans Keep Falling Behind ( erictopol.substack.com )
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
