World Community Grid passes 820,000 years of donated computation time towards finding new genetic predictors of cancer (www.worldcommunitygrid.org)
World Community Grid is a volunteer computing project where people can donate their computer’s spare computational power to science (similar to folding@home). This week they announced some results of their research and having passed the 800,000 CPU-year mark which is pretty incredible....
Most bees live underground. X-ray images reveal how they build their nests (www.science.org)
Research paper: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0016706123003324
Scientists Are on the Brink of Discovering the Fifth Fundamental Force of Nature (www.popularmechanics.com)
ATLAS (LHC) achieves highest-energy detection of quantum entanglement (atlas.cern)
“This is the first-ever observation of entanglement between a pair of quarks and the highest-energy measurement of entanglement. Apart from the fundamental interest of testing quantum entanglement in a new environment, this measurement paves the way to use the LHC as a laboratory to study quantum information and other...
Researchers Fully Sequence the Y Chromosome for the First Time (www.nist.gov)
A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins (www.newscientist.com)
By mulling over colliding bubbles on a cosmological scale, physicists are finding cause for speculation about fresh sparks of cosmic creation. It is possible, they say, that in the weeks after the big bang there was a second, similarly profound moment of transformation. This one may have spawned monstrous shadow particles...
Scientists finally figure out why hundreds of gray whales keep washing up dead along US coasts (www.livescience.com)
[Some] Secrets of Cat Evolution Have Finally Been Revealed (www.sciencealert.com)
Dopamine Controls Movement, Not Just Rewards (news.northwestern.edu)
Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg (www.bbc.co.uk)
JWST's first triple-image supernova could save the Universe (bigthink.com)
Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid (www.nytimes.com)
A team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long Covid, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with long Covid. They said that the biological pathway that their research outlines could unite many of the major theories of what causes long Covid: lingering remnants of the...
The American Journal of Infectious Diseases Publishes Cure For Long COVID-19 Symptoms (peer reviewed) (finance.yahoo.com)
Rats have an imagination, brain research reveals (www.washingtonpost.com)
China beats US for first time in global scientific ‘hot papers’ ranking (www.scmp.com)
Source of Hidden Consciousness in ‘Comatose’ Brain Injury Patients Found (www.cuimc.columbia.edu)
Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide (news.mit.edu)
What is the human body’s limit, when it comes to extreme heat? (www.nature.com)
As deadly heatwaves become more common, researchers are studying what the human body can tolerate.
Rings of RNA could be the next blockbuster drug (www.nature.com)
The commercial success of RNA vaccines for COVID-19 has revved up interest in circular RNAs as the next generation of therapies. This is because linear RNA molecules have a fleeting existence inside cells-which is not a problem for it’s function as vaccine, but for other therapeutic applications longer existence is preferable....
Asteroid crater 520km in diameter buried deep in southeast Australia, scientists say (www.australiangeographic.com.au)
Archived version: archive.ph/z5Pql...
Sheer stupidity is a threat to our scientific progress | Letters (www.theguardian.com)
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