SpaceX conducts a mostly successful test of its Super Heavy booster (arstechnica.com)
Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch (futurism.com)
Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the Higgs Boson, has died at 94 (mailings.ed.ac.uk)
New theory seeks to unite Einstein’s gravity with quantum mechanics (www.ucl.ac.uk)
25.000 old prehistoric pyramid in West Java (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
See also ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/…/abstract
Has the James Webb Space Telescope found signs of life on Europa? (thehill.com)
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.
USC Study Confirms the Rotation of Earth’s Inner Core has Slowed (today.usc.edu)
A Hot Drink on a Hot Day Can Cool You Down (www.smithsonianmag.com)
From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up (www.npr.org)
A study published in the British Medical Journal finds people who consume high amounts of these foods have an increased risk of anxiety, depression, obesity, metabolic syndrome, certain cancers including colorectal cancer and premature death....
Surprise discovery “fundamentally changes” history of humans and Neanderthals in northwest Europe (cosmosmagazine.com)
Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work? (www.npr.org)
For decades, government scientists have toiled away trying to make nuclear fusion work. Will commercial companies sprint to the finish?
Successful growth and room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99 (arxiv.org)
Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores (theconversation.com)
K2-18b: did JWST really find evidence of life on this exoplanet? (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16562180...
Chinese team reports patient’s diabetes cured with cell therapy in world first (www.scmp.com)
Climate change is rewiring fish brains — and probably ours, too (grist.org)
Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria (www.imperial.ac.uk)
New 'Chicken from Hell' Discovered — A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Air Cleaners Don’t Stop You Getting Sick, Research Shows (www.uea.ac.uk)
Air filtration systems do not reduce the risk of picking up viral infections, according to new research from the University of East Anglia....
New Atlas: Water can evaporate with just light, no heat, says surprising study (newatlas.com)
r/science
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
r/EverythingScience
Academia is BROKEN! Nobel-Prize Winner with Fake Results (Medicine) (www.youtube.com)
The whole channel should have way more views. Science fraud is a topic that scientists knows and talk about but it is always vague and it’s hard to point at precises cases due to lack of documentation (and journalists in general).
Dopamine Controls Movement, Not Just Rewards (news.northwestern.edu)
Scientists develop futuristic material to help us beat the heat: 'A viable candidate for radiative cooling' (www.thecooldown.com)
