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This Tuesday (06/28/22) - Topics sensationalized:

Charles Darwin's Favourite Plant - Getting COVID-19 again - So much Science News sucks - Do this or die within ten years - Memory Loss: Blood Vessel Breakthrough - Prostate Cancer Hijacks Tumor Cells - Flu Vaccination? 40% Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease - Breast Cancer More Aggressive at Night - The Eyes of Children With Autism - Dyslexia? Might be Good News - Autism; in the Eyes of Children - Friends Who 'Click', you smell like me. Unmarried? Higher Chance of Death - Pee in the fields - To Grow Plants In Darkness - Grow plants in Space - Robots behaving badly - Expensive Useless Supplements - Oil Tanker Is In Danger Of Exploding - Hackers Rule your Hot Tub - Just finished Cruise Ship heading to the Scrapyard - Now, let's talk about me - Human Fossils a Million Years Older - Human fire, 800,000 years ago - British tools, tools from 560,000 years ago - 30,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth - Deep-Sea Food Falls - Honeycomb Mars Water - Curiosity Rover Captures Stunning Mars - Anti-Gravity Wheel - More LIDAR Archeology -

Today's links:

7 mins - David Attenborough Discovers Charles Darwin's Favourite Plant | Kingdom of Plants | Nature Bites - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odbFH7xziHI


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his July heads-up. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site


Larry Dworsky's latest Covid statistics:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u6TbKH3Wbba7RnH2PYhdtrUQ-swxAqb5/view?usp=sharing


Here’s what we know right now about getting COVID-19 again | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/getting-covid-again-reinfection-omicron


13 mins - Why does Science News Suck So Much? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gn4rmQTZek&t=198s


Scientists Say That If You Can't Do This Simple Balancing Trick, You Have A Higher Risk Of Death Within 10 Years

https://wonderfulengineering.com/scientists-say-that-if-you-cant-do-this-simple-balancing-trick-you-have-a-higher-risk-of-death-within-10-years/


Stopping Memory Loss: Blood Vessel Breakthrough Major Step Towards Alzheimer’s Treatment

https://scitechdaily.com/stopping-memory-loss-blood-vessel-breakthrough-major-step-towards-alzheimers-treatment/


Prostate Cancer Hijacks Tumor Cells’ Circadian Rhythm To Evade Hormone Therapy

https://scitechdaily.com/prostate-cancer-hijacks-tumor-cells-circadian-rhythm-to-evade-hormone-therapy/


Flu Vaccination Linked to 40% Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

https://scitechdaily.com/flu-vaccination-linked-to-40-lower-risk-of-alzheimers-disease/


Breast Cancer Spreads More Aggressively at Night, Startling New Study Finds

https://www.sciencealert.com/breast-cancer-spreads-more-aggressively-at-night-startling-new-study-finds


Scientists Detect Intriguing Differences in The Eyes of Children With Autism And ADHD

https://www.sciencealert.com/retina-recordings-could-be-used-to-identify-adhd-and-asd


Research Suggests There's a Big Overlooked Benefit of Having Dyslexia

https://www.sciencealert.com/having-dyslexia-could-mean-your-brain-is-wired-to-make-better-decisions


Friends Who 'Click' Have Something Peculiar in Common: Their Smell

https://www.sciencealert.com/friends-who-click-smell-similar


Being Unmarried Linked to 58% Higher Chance of Death in Heart Failure Patients

https://scitechdaily.com/being-unmarried-linked-to-58-higher-chance-of-death-in-heart-failure-patients/


5 mins - A Large-Scale Experiment Used Human Pee to Fertilize Crops. Here's What Happened

https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-tested-large-scale-use-of-human-pee-as-fertilizer-and-here-s-what-happened


These Scientists Have Invented A Way To Grow Plants In Complete Darkness

https://wonderfulengineering.com/these-scientists-have-invented-a-way-to-grow-plants-in-complete-darkness/


How astronauts on the ISS are growing crops without soil | Digital Trends

https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/iss-crops-xroots/


Robots With Flawed AI Make Sexist And Racist Decisions, Experiment Shows

https://www.sciencealert.com/robots-with-flawed-ai-make-sexist-racist-and-toxic-decisions-experiment-shows


Americans Are Wasting Billions Every Year on Useless Supplements, Scientists Warn

https://www.sciencealert.com/americans-are-wasting-billions-every-year-on-useless-supplements-scientists-warn


This Stranded Oil Tanker Is In Danger Of Exploding - And It Could Cause A Disastrous Oil Spill

https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-stranded-oil-tanker-is-in-danger-of-exploding-and-it-could-cause-a-disastrous-oil-spill/


Hackers Can Now Set Your Hot Tub's Temperature To Whatever They Want - Thanks To A New Vulnerability

https://wonderfulengineering.com/hackers-can-now-set-your-hot-tubs-temperature-to-whatever-they-want-thanks-to-a-new-vulnerability/


The World’s Largest Cruise Ship Is Going Straight To The Scrapyard From The Shipyard

https://wonderfulengineering.com/the-worlds-largest-cruise-ship-is-going-straight-to-the-scrapyard-from-the-shipyard/


"Lovers with Flower" 2022, 3D VR using primary colors - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJP8npQ3N2U


'Cradle of Humankind' Fossils May Be a Million Years Older Than Previously Thought

https://www.sciencealert.com/cradle-of-humankind-fossils-may-be-a-million-years-older-than-we-previously-thought


The heat is on: Traces of fire uncovered dating back at least 800,000 years: Using advanced AI techniques, researchers discover one of the earliest pieces of evidence for the use of fire -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220627100154.htm


Britons’ tools from 560,000 years ago have emerged from gravel pits | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stone-tools-england-hominids-gravel-pits


30,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Found Almost Perfectly Preserved in Canadian Gold Fields

https://www.sciencealert.com/30-000-year-old-baby-mammoth-found-almost-perfectly-preserved-in-canadian-gold-fields


23 mins - Deep-Sea Food Falls | A Tale of Wood and Bone - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGOtKHy06o


Strange Honeycomb Pattern on Mars Appears to Be Formed by Water Ice And CO2

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-weird-region-on-mars-is-caused-by-water-ice-and-carbon-dioxide


3 mins - NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Stunning Mars Views – Unlocking Mysteries of Ancient Past

https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-curiosity-rover-captures-stunning-mars-views-unlocking-mysteries-of-ancient-past/


4 mins - Anti-Gravity Wheel Explained - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLMpdBjA2SU


6 mins - Anti-Gravity Wheel? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeyDf4ooPdo


7 mins - NEW LiDAR Discovery: Teotihuacan Replica Settlement Found Next to the Maya City of Tikal - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u4ixnfgKHg


Astronomer Bernie Reim gives us his July heads-up. Go to this delicious mind-candy here on our site.

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