Evidence indicates long COVID could be a brain injury (www.skepticalraptor.com)
Astronomers Discover New ‘Celestial Autobahn’ in Solar System | Sci.News (www.sci.news)
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Greenhouse Gas Repurposed in Novel Experiments (phys.org)
Preterm Births Linked to ‘Hormone Disrupter’ Chemicals May Cost United States Billions (nyulangone.org)
Immune Genes are Altered in Alzheimer’s Patients’ Blood (news.northwestern.edu)
The first living robot (www.pnas.org)
Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted (www.npr.org)
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Nuclear fusion: new record brings dream of clean energy closer (www.bbc.com)
The new world record has been set at the UK-based JET laboratory....
Virginia Tech Scientist Shows Focused Ultrasound Can Reach Deep into the Brain to Relieve Pain (news.vt.edu)
In a Warming World, Climate Scientists Consider Category 6 Hurricanes (newscenter.lbl.gov)
What turned Earth into a giant snowball 700m years ago? (www.eurekalert.org)
“Imagine the Earth almost completely frozen over,” said the study’s lead author, ARC Future Fellow Dr Adriana Dutkiewicz. “That’s just what happened about 700 million years ago; the planet was blanketed in ice from poles to equator and temperatures plunged. However, just what caused this has been an open question....
Signatures of a surface spin–orbital chiral metal - Nature (www.nature.com)
3D printing technology for tissue: Researchers combine hydrogels and fibers (phys.org)
In the latest study by Prof. Dr. Leonid Ionov, Professor of Biofabrication, and his team at the University of Bayreuth, various types of hydrogels were extensively tested for the 3D printing of tissues. A hydrogel is a water-retaining and also water-insoluble polymer. In addition, the cell containing–hydrogels, also known as...
A highly integrated bionic hand with neural control and feedback for use in daily life (www.science.org)
The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet (arstechnica.com)
This AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby’s eyes (www.nature.com)
Sea ice algae on which Arctic animals rely under threat from climate change (www.nhm.ac.uk)
Beads, Doom and the Multiverse (www.vaticanobservatory.org)
Temperature is a measure of the microscopic-scale motions of atoms and molecules that comprise matter
Our oldest microbial ancestors were way ahead of their time (arstechnica.com)
Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains (www.npr.org)
It turns out that the appendix appears to have two related functions. The first function is supporting the immune system. The appendix has a high concentration of immune tissue, so it’s acting to help the immune system fight any bad things in the gut....
Surprise discovery “fundamentally changes” history of humans and Neanderthals in northwest Europe (cosmosmagazine.com)
‘It’s Insane’: New Viruslike Entities Found in Human Gut Microbes (www.science.org)
Analysis of sequence databases reveals novel circular RNA genomes belonging to “obelisks”.