Fossil plant discovery has 'great significance' ( www.chinadaily.com.cn )
An antique dress hid coded messages that have finally been unlocked (WAPO) ( web.archive.org )
TLDR The messages were shorthand meteorological readings for multiple locations at specific times. It was a unique form of code used to transmit weather data via telegram back in the 1800s that is the predecessor of the shorthand used today.
Giving Up on Consciousness as the Ghost in the Machine ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov )
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Finally, some good fucking news.
Tsetse Fly Protein Provides Anti-Clotting Agent with its Own On-Off Switch ( www.sydney.edu.au )
The moon lander from Japan was not designed to withstand a lunar night lasting weeks ( www.infoterkiniviral.com )
Follow the journey of Japan's SLIM lander as it withstands lunar challenges, showcasing technological prowess and pushing the boundaries of space
A Novel Antibiotic Class Targeting the Lipopolysaccharide Transporter ( www.nature.com )
90% Reduction: Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Eradicates Plaques and Cavities ( scitechdaily.com )
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Images altered to trick machine vision can influence humans too ( deepmind.google )
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...
The Scariest Sound on the Savanna? Your Voice.. ( www.nytimes.com )
Human voices evoke more fear among animals living in the South African savanna than do snarls from lions. Researchers set up speakers near 21 water holes, which played one of several sounds when triggered by animal movement. When they heard humans, giraffes, leopards, elephants and 16 other species were twice as likely to run as...
Airbnb’s explosive growth jolts hotel industry’s bottom line ( news.fsu.edu )
The Evolution of Photosynthesis Better Documented Thanks to the Discovery of the Oldest Thylakoids in Fossil Cyanobacteria ( www.uliege.be )
A New Antibiotic Traps Lipopolysaccharide in Its Intermembrane Transporter ( www.nature.com )
Is Oxygen the Cosmic Key to Alien Technology? ( www.rochester.edu )
Hearing Aids May Help People Live Longer ( news.keckmedicine.org )
Scientists discovered perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo inside fossilized egg ( www.unilad.com )
Scientists discover first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI ( www.euronews.com )
More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 ( www.nature.com )
The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two...
Wasabi, beloved on sushi, linked to "really substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds ( www.cbsnews.com )
The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis: Research suggests that dinosaurs may have influenced how human beings age ( phys.org )
Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science ( doi.org )
The bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant information ( www.eurekalert.org )
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...
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.
