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Shuttle Spy - First life - Bowhead whales, cancer-defying superpower DNA repair - Got Flavanols - Antidepressant Psychedelics, no Hallucinations - Cause and Cure for common High Blood Pressure - The War on Currants and Gooseberries - Intestinal Bacteria, live to 100? - Plants Can Clean Toxic Chemicals From The Air, fast - Close to nailing 'Sleeping Sickness' - Cheap Diabetes Drug nails Long COVID - Robot Surgeons Operate on Endometriosis - Researchers: Warming of Up by 3 Degrees - El Nino; Coffee and Chocolate More Expensive - Russian science brain drain - Locals: Newly-Laid Asphalt Road is Just A Carpet - Better Sex - Mysterious Filament Structures Stretching Toward Milky Way - Space solar power wirelessly transmitts power in space - Electric Cruise Ship With Gigantic Solar Sails - Spaceships and Foil - Woman Has Married An AI Chatbot She Created - Developer Has Created A Program To Clone Anyone Into An AI Girlfriend - ChatGPT Just Delivered A Sermon To 300 Protestants - More Repeating Fast Radio Bursts - Neutrinos, Ghosts of the Universe - Big Bang: Tweak it or throw it out? - Solar Probe Plunges Into Fast Solar Wind - AI Music Generators: How Riffusion, ChatGPT, and Sample the IO Work

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Bowhead whales may have a cancer-defying superpower: DNA repairBowhead whale cells repair damaged DNA exceptionally well, an ability that could prevent cancer and help the marine mammals live for centuries

Antidepressant Psychedelics With No Hallucinations May Finally Be PossibleResearchers have recently shown that separate mechanisms drive the hallucinogenic and antidepressant effects of psychedelics like LSD and psilocin, potentially paving the way to use these 'party drugs' as treatments that don't trigger psychedelic trips.

Plants Can Clean Toxic Chemicals From The Air in Hours, Study ShowsBringing your garden indoors and growing the right plants on your office wall (along with some sophisticated tech) could scrub the air of several common toxic pollutants, new research suggests.

We're a Step Closer to Stopping a Parasite From Inflicting 'Sleeping Sickness'It starts with an innocent bite from a tsetse fly – an all too common occurrence in sub-Saharan Africa.

These Robot Surgeons In The U.K Just Operated On A Woman With Endometriosis - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Robot surgeons costing £2 million ($2.5 million) each have become a groundbreaking solution for thousands of women suffering from endom

El Nino Could Make Coffee, Cookies, and Chocolate More ExpensiveThe return of El Niño and prospects of hotter, drier weather in producing countries is now threatening to exacerbate tight supply.

These AI Music Generators Are Mind-Blowing—And Make You Feel Like a VirtuosoInstead of yanking the rug away from producers, these tools can actually streamline the music production workflow. We put together a guide to help you get your feet wet.

Exodus of scientists from Russia has passed 50,000 since 2018 as more pack their bags to goRussia's war on Ukraine and longstanding problems with underfunding and career progression are fuelling a brain drain

How to have better sexPeople are having less sex than ever. 3 experts explain the keys to maintaining a passionate relationship.

This Woman Has Married An AI Chatbot She Created - And She Says It Is The Perfect Husband - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Artificial intelligence (AI) often instills fear and uncertainty for some, but for Rosanna Ramos who is a resident of New York, it has b

This Developer Has Created A Program To Clone Anyone Into An AI Girlfriend - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Enias Cailliau, a developer, has created an AI clone of his girlfriend named Sacha. He named the bot GirlfriendGPT and made the code ava

Twice the Mystery: Astronomers Double the Number of Known Repeating Fast Radio BurstsStatistics tools support the idea that all radio bursts may repeat if observed long enough. Scientists from the MIT Kavli Institute and others have doubled the known repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB) sources to 50, as per their study published in The Astrophysical Journal. Using advanced statistic

Larry's commentary on last week's links

One Move for Instant Tinnitus Relief #ShortsDr. Rowe shows an easy exercise that can give instant tinnitus relief, even within 30 seconds.This exercise can be done at home, requires no equipment, and c...

STN member Hameed Faridani

Scientists Have Found the First Branch on the Tree of LifeSomething had to diverge from the trunk eventually.

Are You Getting Enough Flavanols? - proto.lifeA diet deficient in naturally occurring flavanols can lead to age-related memory loss.

Cause and Cure Discovered for Common Type of High Blood PressureClinicians at Queen Mary University of London and Barts Hospital have identified a gene variant that causes a common type of hypertension (high blood pressure) and a way to cure it, new research published in the journal Nature Genetics shows. The cause is a tiny benign nodule, present in one-in-t

Intestinal Bacteria – The Secret to Living to 100?We are pursuing the dream of immortality. We fast to stay healthy. Each year, we invest billions of dollars in healthcare to extend our lifespan. Yet, some individuals effortlessly reach the century mark. What's their secret? Researchers from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Researc

Cheap Diabetes Drug Slashes Risk of Long COVID, Study FindsPeople who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for COVID-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long COVID, a US-based study said Friday.

Researchers Warn: Global Warming of Up to 3 Degrees LikelyThe goal of limiting global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees as set by the Paris Agreement seems unlikely to be achieved, with current trends indicating a potential temperature rise of 2.5–3 degrees. Nonetheless, it's still possible to avoid this elevated warming. Evidence for this has been demonst

Angry Locals Lift Up Newly-Laid Asphalt Road To Prove It’s Just A Carpet - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Residents of Karjat-Hast Pokhari, a village in Maharashtra’s Jalna district, were filled with hope and gratitude when their appeal

In A World First, A Space Solar Power Demonstrator Wirelessly Transmits Power In Space - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement A team from Caltech has achieved a significant milestone in space-based wireless power transmission. They have successfully beamed detec

This Electric Cruise Ship With Gigantic Solar Sails Is All Set To Set Sail Soon - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Adventure cruise company Hurtigruten Norway has unveiled its plans for a groundbreaking electric cruise ship equipped with colossal sola

Hunting the Ghosts of the Universe: Unraveling the Neutrino EnigmaA team of researchers from Indiana University, along with international collaborators, is actively engaged in unraveling fundamental mysteries surrounding the fundamental laws of physics that govern our universe. Over the past six years, a team of researchers from Indiana University, together wit

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Plunges Into Fast Solar Wind and Discovers Its Mysterious SourceNASA's Parker Solar Probe probe got close enough to sun's surface to see hidden granular features. 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

ChatGPT Just Delivered A Sermon To 300 Protestants At A Church In Germany - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a packed church in Fuerth, Germany, the AI chatbot called ChatGPT took the stage and urged the believers to rise and worship. The cha

The Earliest Quiescent – Researchers Reveal Traits of Ancient Galaxy 25 Billion Light-Years AwayUtilizing the most powerful telescope to date, astronomers have identified a colossal and tightly clustered galaxy situated 25 billion light-years away. GS-9209, a galaxy that emerged just 600 to 800 million years following the Big Bang, has been identified as the earliest galaxy of its type ever d

Bernie Reim's astronomical update for June

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