Neanderthals seem to be the first humans to make synthetic materials (arstechnica.com)
Does it matter if you sit or stand to pee? And what about peeing in the shower? (theconversation.com)
Does it? What about you, guys? Sitting, standing, or why even bother getting out of bed? Do you care to stop your truck before pee to the bottle? Does your boss let you walk away from the cash desk?
Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance (www.theguardian.com)
Brain fog after COVID-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain,’ Stanford-led study finds (med.stanford.edu)
Consciousness and Anesthesia (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Titanic asteroid the size of 84 orcas to pass Earth on Monday - NASA (m.jpost.com)
Scientists Report World’s First X-ray of a Single Atom in Nature (news.ohio.edu)
Lingering Effects of Neanderthal DNA Found in Modern Humans (news.cornell.edu)
New cannibalistic salamander species discovered in Fujian, China (lemmy.ml)
Once spotted in 1978 and thought to have gone extinct, the Fujian Bamboo Salamander has been found again. According to DNA analysis, this cannibalistic species has an average or above average rate of genetic divergence compared to other salamander species. They also have been witnessed vocalizing, which isn’t something...
How Chronic Stress Drives the Brain to Crave Comfort Food (www.garvan.org.au)
Stress can override natural satiety cues to drive more food intake and boost cravings for sweets.
The ‘Breath’ Between Atoms - A New Building Block for Quantum Technology (www.ece.uw.edu)
How Did Birds First Take Off? (www.nytimes.com)
Powerful microscope captures motor proteins in unprecedented detail (www.nature.com)
The Mystery of the Largest Light in the Sea (nautil.us)
The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (www.nature.com)
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.
China grows blood stem cells in space in what scientists say is first-of-its-kind experiment (archive.ph)
Genomes of 233 primate species sequenced (www.dpz.eu)
How the humble jellyfish is helping China supercharge food, medicine production (www.scmp.com)
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)
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