Military-grade AI may now be used to spy on American civilians (interestingengineering.com)
DNA scientists pressed pause 50 years ago, will AI researchers do the same? (www.latimes.com)
In the summer of 1974, a group of international researchers published an urgent open letter asking their colleagues to suspend work on a potentially dangerous new technology. The letter was a first in the history of science — and now, half a century later, it has happened again....
What's wrong with Particle Physics? - Sabine Hossenfelder (youtu.be)
Particle Physicists make new models to solve problems that don't exists which are soon proven wrong....
Key Protein Vital for Structural Integrity of Neurons – Without It Axons Break, Synapses Die (scitechdaily.com)
New White Dwarf Pulsar Discovery: “Stellar Fossils” Unveil Cosmic Secrets (scitechdaily.com)
Scientists reveal liquid metal coating that gives paper a mind of its own (interestingengineering.com)
Mysterious spiral signals in the human brain could be key to our cognition (www.livescience.com)
According to new research, the risk of dying from breast cancer in the five years after an early-stage diagnosis has decreased from 14% in the 1990s to 5% on average. (www.bmj.com)
Drug-resistant fungi are thriving in even the most remote regions of Earth (www.sciencedaily.com)
An Alternative Cure: The Adoption and Survival of Bacteriophage Therapy in the USSR, 1922–1955 (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
While the viral nature of the “phage” was only widely accepted in the 1940s, attempts to use the phenomenon in treating infections started early. After raising hopes in the interwar years, by 1945 phage therapy had been abandoned almost entirely in the West, until the recent revival of interest in response to the crisis of...
NASA shares colorful “postcard” of Mars’ surface (www.freethink.com)
Plant-based insulin derived from lettuce, can be taken orally (newatlas.com)
"Animal cells share some qualities with plant cells, but one key feature ours lack is a rigid cell wall. While this provides structure for plants, it’s also something scientists are increasingly looking at for use in new materials, cellulose technology and, now, insulin delivery."
People, not search-engine algorithms, choose unreliable or partisan news (www.nature.com)
Time-restricted eating: A new way to prevent diabetes and obesity? (www.techexplorist.com)
Surges of cosmic radiation from space directly linked to earthquakes (www.earth.com)
Keto diet may slow cancer tumour growth in mice – but not without potentially deadly consequences (theconversation.com)
Are all calories created equal? Your gut microbes don’t think so. (www.washingtonpost.com)
People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened (www.psychologicalscience.org)
Moths: The Nighttime Heroes of Pollination (scienceblog.com)
Open access source study here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14261
Moths are more efficient pollinators than bees, shows new research (www.sciencedaily.com)
Open access source study here:- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14261
China gives green light to its first thorium-powered nuclear reactor (www.scmp.com)
Is Thorium the answer to nuclear energy worldwide?
Using modern genomics to turn alligator scales into birdlike feathers (phys.org)
Ireland - Cork cousins develop compostable PPE apron to reduce plastic usage in Irish healthcare (www.rte.ie)
Two Cork cousins have developed a compostable PPE apron to reduce plastic usage in the healthcare industry.
U.S. is expanding CO2 pipelines (www.npr.org)
One poisoned town wants you to know its story. one is coming through my town(peoria, Il) so reading into it