32-year-old blogger's research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31 ( fortune.com )
Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada ( www.livescience.com )
It's a bit old but the shape and the city name were so funny that I couldn't not post it XD
Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, has died at 94 ( mailings.ed.ac.uk )
Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas ( www.popularmechanics.com )
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness ( www.afterbabel.com )
Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later ( newatlas.com )
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Active self-treatment of a facial wound with a biologically active plant by a male Sumatran orangutan - Scientific Reports ( www.nature.com )
New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink - NASA Science ( science.nasa.gov )
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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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch ( futurism.com )
Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? ( www.vox.com )
Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer ( www.bbc.com )
The new world record has been set at the UK-based JET laboratory....
Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains ( www.npr.org )
It turns out that the appendix appears to have two related functions. The first function is supporting the immune system. The appendix has a high concentration of immune tissue, so it's acting to help the immune system fight any bad things in the gut....
Even Mild Cases Of COVID-19 Can Leave A Mark On The Brain, Such As Reductions In Gray Matter ( today.tamu.edu )
It should also be noted that damage to this specific area of the brain within the cerebral cortex can cause sociopathic behaviour. Additionally, this induces the “slow and insidious loss of the capacity for moral rationality.”...
Climate change is rewiring fish brains — and probably ours, too ( grist.org )
Surprise discovery “fundamentally changes” history of humans and Neanderthals in northwest Europe ( cosmosmagazine.com )
USC Study Confirms the Rotation of Earth’s Inner Core has Slowed ( today.usc.edu )
Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria ( www.imperial.ac.uk )
Evidence indicates long COVID could be a brain injury ( www.skepticalraptor.com )
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.