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)
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?
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
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness (www.afterbabel.com)
Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, And They May Be as Smart as Gorillas (www.popularmechanics.com)
Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting (retractionwatch.com)
Study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume (www.sciencedaily.com)
Scientist concludes: "We don't have free will" (www.latimes.com)
Wasabi, beloved on sushi, linked to "really substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
Study finds coffee inhibits SARS-CoV-2 (cellandbioscience.biomedcentral.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 Believe Light Speed Travel Is Possible. Here’s How. (www.popularmechanics.com)
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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.
Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time (quillette.com)
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)
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)
Frozen human brain tissue works perfectly when thawed 18 months later (newatlas.com)
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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