90% Reduction: Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Eradicates Plaques and Cavities (scitechdaily.com)
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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.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
We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world (www.theguardian.com)
When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness (www.afterbabel.com)
Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting (retractionwatch.com)
Scientist concludes: "We don't have free will" (www.latimes.com)
Study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume (www.sciencedaily.com)
Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows (www.theguardian.com)
Pets do not significantly benefit the emotional health of owners with severe mental illness, study shows (phys.org)
Paper: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/…/hai.2023.0027
SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites 'leak' so much radiation that it's hurting radio astronomy, scientists say (www.space.com)
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Gonorrhea is becoming unstoppable; highly resistant cases found in US (arstechnica.com)
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Wasabi, beloved on sushi, linked to "really substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
32-year-old blogger's research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31 (fortune.com)
Harvesting almost-unlimited energy (in tiny amounts) from ripples in graphene (interestingengineering.com)
Scientists have figured out how to harness Brownian motion – literally the thermal energy of individual molecules – to make electricity, by cleverly connecting diodes up to pieces of graphene, which are atom-thick sheets of Carbon. The team has successfully demonstrated their theory (which was previously thought to be...
Scientists face impossible choice over preservation of priceless blue crab blood: Let vital medicines wither or an endangered bird (fortune.com)
Scientists Believe Light Speed Travel Is Possible. Here’s How. (www.popularmechanics.com)
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Scientists discover first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI (www.euronews.com)
Desalination System Could Produce Freshwater that is Cheaper than Tap Water (news.mit.edu)
Upcycled plastic can be turned into soap, researchers find (scrippsnews.com)
Researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to upcycle plastic into soap. Around 120 grams to 130 grams of plastic can make 100 grams of soap.
Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are industrial pollutants (bigthink.com)
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
American Airlines, Google say they can wipe out most contrails, but more fuel required (techxplore.com)
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.