Commented - science

At 11,000 feet up, scientists find Earth broke a scary record ( mashable.com )

Are Body Temperature and Depression Linked? Science Says, Yes. ( www.ucsf.edu )

First proof of leeches jumping captured on video ( www.earth.com )

Even as a flying squid, I'm repulsed.

Why do matter and antimatter annihilate? ( bigthink.com )

From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate? There’s a quantum reason we simply can’t avoid.

Sensory secrets of penis and clitoris unlocked after more than 150 years ( www.nature.com )

Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows ( www.forbes.com )

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The Earth’s core is slowing down ( english.elpais.com )

Neuroscience Explains Women's Reaction to Sexual Harassment ( www.inc.com )

The Dairy Industry Must Act Faster to Keep H5N1 Bird Flu from Starting a Human Epidemic ( www.scientificamerican.com )

African elephants have individual name-like calls for each other, similar to human names, study finds ( www.cbsnews.com )

Human Brains Can Tell Deepfake Voices From Real Ones ( hackaday.com )

All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites ( sciinsider.com )

Toxic PFAS absorbed through skin at levels higher than previously thought ( www.theguardian.com )

Huge amounts of bird-flu virus found in raw milk of infected cows ( www.nature.com )

How Does Our Sense of Humor Change With Age? A Statistical Analysis ( www.statsignificant.com )

Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy ( arstechnica.com )

We haven’t pinned down the masses of any individual neutrino, and we don’t even know which ones are heavier than the others. When it comes to our ability to collect raw data, neutrinos present a triple threat: they’re incredibly lightweight (even the electron weighs over 5 million times more than all the neutrinos...

Ping pong players exhibit superior brain structure and function, study finds ( www.psypost.org )

Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter ( www.sciencedirect.com )

Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.

Parkinson's Link to Gut Bacteria Suggests Unexpected, Simple Treatment ( www.sciencealert.com )

Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images | Science ( www.science.org )

Introverts use more concrete language than extraverts | BPS ( www.bps.org.uk )

New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect ( www.nytimes.com )

The latest insight comes from a study on butterflies in the Midwest, published on Thursday in the journal PLOS ONE. Its results don’t discount the serious effects of climate change and habitat loss on butterflies and other insects, but they indicate that agricultural insecticides exerted the biggest impact on the size and...