NASA: Life Signs Could Survive Near Surfaces of Enceladus and Europa (science.nasa.gov)
Dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance nearly impossible (today.uic.edu)
The Financial Consequences of Legalized Sports Gambling (papers.ssrn.com)
If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) (www.sciencedirect.com)
Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries' (www.bbc.com)
How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters? (answer: about 7 seconds) (bigthink.com)
Smell of human stress can affect dogs' emotions, leading them to make more pessimistic choices (phys.org)
Scientists Discover a New Hormone that Can Build Strong Bones (www.ucsf.edu)
Turning Off Inflammatory Protein Extends Healthy Lifespan in Mice (www.ukri.org)
Ancient Microbes Offer Clues To How Complex Life Evolved (www.qmul.ac.uk)
Superconductivity in pressurized trilayer La4Ni3O10−δ single crystals (www.nature.com)
Llama Nanobodies: A Breakthrough in Building HIV Immunity (news.gsu.edu)
Giving Up on Consciousness as the Ghost in the Machine (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
7 sea creatures we can’t believe are real (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada (www.livescience.com)
It’s a bit old but the shape and the city name were so funny that I couldn’t not post it XD
Pigbutt (lemmygrad.ml)
Finally, some good fucking news.
Insight into One of Life’s Earliest Ancestors Revealed in New Study (www.bristol.ac.uk)
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.
'The last 12 months have broken records like never before': Earth exceeds 1.5 C warming every month for entire year (www.space.com)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/5089915...
Volunteer computing project SiDock starts work on Ebola drugs (www.sidock.si)
SiDock is a volunteer computing project on the !boinc platform which uses the computing power of computers of volunteers to do open source drug discovery.
Scientists develop futuristic material to help us beat the heat: 'A viable candidate for radiative cooling' (www.thecooldown.com)
Found with Webb: a Potentially Habitable World (nouvelles.umontreal.ca)
Psychological truths like Skinner vs Pavlov Conditioning
Something I find fascinating is that being consistent (and trustworthy) is less effective than being 80/20% consistent (classical vs operant conditioning) at training dogs where there are contextual/environmental cues at play. It’s personally counter-intuitive, but I’ve seen it work and am convinced (I attribute it to...
Mysterious ‘Dark Fungi’ Are Lurking Everywhere (www.scientificamerican.com)
The land, water and air around us are chock-full of DNA fragments from fungi that mycologists can’t link to known organisms. These slippery beings are so widespread scientists are calling them “dark fungi.” It’s a comparison to the equally elusive dark matter and dark energy that permeates the universe.
The Heart (poemsprout.blogspot.com)
