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A New Study Found Microplastics In Every Testicle It Sampled — How Bad Is That?
www.inverse.com A New Study Found Microplastics In Every Testicle It Sampled — How Bad Is That?A recent study published in Toxicological Sciences has found microplastics in yet another body part: testicles.
- gizmodo.com Raw Milk Sales Skyrocket as Idiots Believe Drinking Bird Flu Will Give Them 'Immunity'
Pasteurization kills H5N1, but raw milk has "high concentrations" of the virus. Please don't drink raw milk.
- phys.org Study suggests that cells possess a hidden communication system
Cells constantly navigate a dynamic environment, facing ever-changing conditions and challenges. But how do cells swiftly adapt to these environmental fluctuations?
- www.bbc.co.uk Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
It is the first time a creature in the wild has been seen using a medicinal plant to treat a wound.
- theconversation.com Computer science culture often means anybody’s data is fair game to feed the AI algorithm – but artists are fighting back
Daniel Angus, a professor of digital communication, explains how artists are trying out data poisoning to protect their intellectual property. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
- gizmodo.com Mutated Strains of Unknown Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found Lurking on ISS
It’s not clear how the space bacteria may affect the health of astronauts on the ISS—or humans back down on Earth.
- www.theguardian.com ‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
An unprecedented leap of 38.5C in the coldest place on Earth is a harbinger of a disaster for humans and the local ecosystem
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The Artists Digitally Liberating Colonial Plunder
www.noemamag.com The Artists Digitally Liberating Colonial Plunder | NOEMANew technologies offer clandestine ways to ‘return’ works of art stolen during the colonial era — but also challenges of their own.
Artists around the world are “stealing” back looted artifacts, creating unauthorized digital versions in an effort to return the works to their rightful heirs.
- www.sciencealert.com Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins Into Human Cells. Here's What Happened.
Freeze 'em, heat 'em, blast them into empty space; with survival skills unlike any other organism on the planet, those hardy critters known as tardigrades will only come back for more.
- www.smithsonianmag.com Melting Polar Ice Sheets Are Slowing Earth's Rotation. That Could Change How We Keep Time
As ice melts into water and flows toward the equator, it redistributes mass around the Earth, affecting the planet's spin, a new study finds
- futurism.com High Percentage of Stars Have Eaten a Planet, Research Finds
Research shows that about one in 12 stars have devoured a planet, suggesting that stable planetary systems are less common than believed.
- www.nbcnews.com Cosmic explosion will be visible to the naked eye in once-in-a-lifetime stargazing event
The event, known as a nova, will be so bright that a “new” star will seem to appear in the night sky temporarily, visible to the naked eye.
- www.sciencealert.com Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries
Plastics are now everywhere, with tiny fragments found in several major organs of the human body, including the placenta.
- news.mit.edu Researchers harness 2D magnetic materials for energy-efficient computing
MIT researchers used ultrathin van der Waals materials to create an electron magnet that can be switched at room temperature. This type of magnet could be used to build magnetic processors or memories that would consume far less energy than silicon devices.
- gizmodo.com New Moons Discovered Around Uranus and Neptune
The three new moons include the first to be discovered around Uranus in more than 20 years.
- gizmodo.com A New Version of Dengue Is Plaguing Florida: 'Unprecedented' Outbreaks
The state has experienced "an unusually large" spike in cases caused by an emerging variant of dengue.
- www.smithsonianmag.com Air Pollution Makes Flowers Smell Less Appealing to Pollinators, Study Suggests
Nocturnal hawk moths are less likely to visit primroses in air polluted by nitrate radicals, which break down important wild fragrances, researchers find
- theconversation.com An astronomer’s lament: Satellite megaconstellations are ruining space exploration
Megaconstellations of satellites are hindering the most powerful tool for space exploration: telescopes.
- www.theguardian.com Hurricanes becoming so strong that new category needed, study says
Scientists propose new category 6 rating to classify ‘mega-hurricanes’, becoming more likely due to climate crisis
- www.full-stop.net The MANIAC – Benjamín Labatut
Labatut’s most horrific writing depicts the achievements born from humanity’s weakness. . . . It’s horrifying because it’s true; it’s horrifying because it took immense effort, achievement, and ingenuity to make it so.
- www.popularmechanics.com A Strange Plastic Rock Has Ominously Invaded 5 Continents
That probably shouldn't have happened.
- www.theguardian.com Libraries for the future: Europe’s new wave of ‘meeting places for the mind’
From Ghent’s De Krook to Helsinki’s Oodi, recent civic constructions have shared a vision of the library as a living room for the modern city
- www.quantamagazine.org How to Build an Origami Computer | Quanta Magazine
Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation.
- www.theguardian.com Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, study reveals
Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents
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World's most dangerous bird raised by humans 18,000 years ago, study suggests
edition.cnn.com World's most dangerous bird raised by humans 18,000 years ago, study suggests | CNNThe earliest bird reared by humans may have been a cassowary, according to a new study. This aggressive bird is best known for its long dagger-like toe and colorful plumage.
- www.vice.com Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language
Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.
- www.theguardian.com Why landing on the moon is proving more difficult today than 50 years ago
Moon mission records provide a clue as to why getting to the lunar surface remains far from straightforward
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Some crustaceans have evolved a way to make silk
Gaining and losing that ability fueled great diversity in one group called amphipods
- www.inverse.com Physicists Confirm A Long-Held Belief About Dark Matter Using Unique Supernova
No one result can serve as definitive proof of what dark energy is, but this experiment supports the idea that dark energy is a fundamental property of a space.
- aeon.co Silk is a thread that opens up the weave of human history | Aeon Essays
From its mythic beginnings in a Chinese garden, the story of silk is a window into how weaving has shaped human history
- phys.org 'Giant' predator worms more than half a billion years old discovered in North Greenland
Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. These large worms may be some of the earliest carnivorous animals to have colonized the water column more than 518 million years ago, revealing a past dynasty of preda...
- theconversation.com How we discovered that Uranus and Neptune are actually nearly identical in colour
It turns out Uranus actually changes colour throughout the year.
- www.nytimes.com Flowers Are Evolving to Have Less Sex
As the number of bees and other pollinators falls, field pansies are adapting by fertilizing their own seeds, a new study found.
- arstechnica.com Why scientists are making transparent wood
The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.
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The "Hero's Journey" Is Nonsense
talesoftimesforgotten.com The "Hero's Journey" Is Nonsense - Tales of Times ForgottenIn 1949, an American author named Joseph Campbell published a book titled The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he claims that, fundamentally, all the great stories that human beings have ever told follow the exact same pattern, which is innate in the human consciousness and therefore presen...
In 1949, an American author named Joseph Campbell published a book titled The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he claims that, fundamentally, all the great stories that human beings have ever told follow the exact same pattern, which is innate in the human consciousness and therefore present in every culture during every time period…
- modernmedieval.substack.com Two Elephants in Early Medieval Europe
The interwoven strands of a permeable Europe
- newrepublic.com The Year That A.I. Came for Culture
The events of 2023 showed that A.I. doesn’t need to be that good in order to do damage.
- news.yale.edu Study helps explain post-COVID exercise intolerance
Exercise intolerance is one symptom associated with long COVID. A new study helps explain its cause.
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The Norway Model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse
www.thedial.world The Norway Model — The DialHow the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse.