Researchers discover that COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse (medicalxpress.com)
Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source (phys.org)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) has flown close enough to the sun to detect the fine structure of the solar wind close to where it is generated at the sun’s surface, revealing details that are lost as the wind exits the corona as a uniform blast of charged particles....
Wildfire smoke and haze in the Eastern United States should peak this week (arstechnica.com)
New York City had the worst air quality in the world on Tuesday.
Early-Career NIH Researchers Forming Union For First Time (popularresistance.org)
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
Genomes of 233 primate species sequenced (www.dpz.eu)
How the humble jellyfish is helping China supercharge food, medicine production (www.scmp.com)
China grows blood stem cells in space in what scientists say is first-of-its-kind experiment (archive.ph)
Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum (arstechnica.com)
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Arizona’s water troubles show how climate change is reshaping the West (www.washingtonpost.com)
In one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country, it’s a boom time — water-intensive microchip companies and data centers moving in; tens of thousands of houses spreading deep into the desert. But it is also a time of crisis: Climate change is drying up the American West and putting fundamental resources at...
US military has been observing ‘metallic orbs’ making extraordinary ‘maneuvers’ (thehill.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/432614...
Savings in fertilizer requirements from plant-based diets (www.sciencedirect.com)
Rectangular log map-scheme of the Observable Universe (www.pablocarlosbudassi.com)
This vertically oriented logarithmic map spans nearly 20 orders of magnitude, taking us from planet Earth to the edge of the Observable Universe. The scheme locates notable astronomical objects of various scales: spacecraft, moons, planets, star systems, nearby galaxies, and notable large-scale structures are some of the objects...
Da Vinci understood key aspect of gravity centuries before Einstein, lost sketches reveal (www.livescience.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1136574...
Satellite-observed strong subtropical ocean warming as an early signature of global warming (www.nature.com)
Climate-controlled submarine landslides on the Antarctic continental margin (www.nature.com)
On quantum backpropagation, information reuse, and cheating measurement collapse (scirate.com)
Infectious Pathogen Silently Spreads to Over 90% of California's Cannabis Farms, Destroying THC Production (vnexplorer.net)
A hop-latent viroid, an infectious pathogen, is devastating cannabis farms in California by infiltrating plants and ruining entire crops just before they’re ready for harvest.