Twenty years of microplastics pollution research—what have we learned? (www.science.org)
Scientists discover plastic-eating fungi that could help clean up world’s oceans (www.independent.co.uk)
Scientists Find Water Molecules in Lunar Rock Sample for the First Time (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Federal antitrust lawsuit against six commercial publishers of academic journals (www.lieffcabraser.com)
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Ideas with storing electrons and or light in a container
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Analysis: Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions (www.ucl.ac.uk)
A study found that a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia would kill more than 5 billion people – just from starvation (www.nature.com)
Doom scrolling - Works in Progress (worksinprogress.co)
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The Physics of Cold Water May Have Jump-Started Complex Life | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
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With ‘Digital Twins,’ The Doctor Will See You Now | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
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Skyhook rotating tether in space 1000s km long planes climb on and get massive boost. Somebody invest in this idea and patent it and spread idea! Reduce rocket size 85% and explore asteroid mining. (www.youtube.com)
Asgard Archaea Defense Systems and Their Roles in the Origin of Eukaryotic Immunity (www.nature.com)
Accelerating histopathology workflows with generative AI-based virtually multiplexed tumour profiling (www.nature.com)
China's LARID radar detects plasma bubbles over Giza pyramids (interestingengineering.com)
Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition (bmjpublichealth.bmj.com)
Magical equation unites quantum physics, general relativity in a first (interestingengineering.com)
Edit: The paper is total nonsense. Sorry for wasting people’s time....
A study found that there is a significant decline of the nutrient content in 43 different crops between 1950 and 1999 (web.archive.org)
How Cells Control Gene Expression by Cleaning Up Their Mistakes (biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu)
Newly Discovered Gene May Influence Longevity (healthsciences.ku.dk)
Reviewing studies of degrowth: Are claims matched by data, methods and policy analysis? (www.sciencedirect.com)
A review of the degrowth literature (561 studies) find that ‘few studies use quantitative or qualitative data…’ and those that do ‘tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases’. Finally, ‘large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis’.
Meet The Mites That Live On Your Face (www.npr.org)
'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next (www.livescience.com)
Crows Are Even Smarter Than We Thought (nautil.us)
Researchers Map 50,000 of DNA’s Mysterious ‘Knots’ in the Human Genome (www.garvan.org.au)
Innovative study of DNA’s hidden structures may open up new approaches for treatment and diagnosis of diseases, including cancer.