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This Tuesday (07/11/23) - Topics sensationalized!:

The Next Pandemic - Larry´s comments - Sunspots & Weather - Spontaneous Cumbustion - Creative People - Nailing Mosquitoes - Chewing & Type II Diabetes - Tackling Both Stress and Depression - More Vitamin D News - Microbes' ‘Proton Pump’ - Anti-Semitic views - Anti-Aging Injection...for monkeys - New Drug Candidates to Treat Addiction and Depression - Trauma - Cultivated Meat - Optimistic Story of Population Decline - Green Hydrogen Facility - Polar Vortex, this Decade - Amazon Laptop review - OpenAI being sued - AI Can Run The World Better - Robot Fish - How Machine Learning Reimagines Material Modeling - OpenAI Is Worried About AI Causing Human Extinction - Earning Cash While Saving Lives - Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics - “First Light” With NASA’s James Webb - Ancient Stars Somehow Survived Close to the Center of the Milky Way - Humans reach a new low - Creepier, Deepier
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Larry's comments

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STN member Bill Krajec

Can sunspots affect the weather?How is the Earth’s climate is affected by what happens on the sun?

Buzz-Off: New Genetic Technology Developed To Stop Malaria-Spreading MosquitoesAs envisioned, this first-of-its-kind African mosquito suppression system would reduce child mortality and aid economic development. Malaria remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Each year malaria infections result in hundreds of thousands of deaths, with the majority of fatalities occur

Tackling Both Stress and Depression – A New Potential Depression Treatment With Minimal Side EffectsResearchers have developed a potential depression treatment that demonstrates both stress-relieving and anti-depressant effects with minimal side effects. Millions of individuals globally grapple with depression stemming from psychological stress. However, the majority of existing antidepressant me

Microbes Gained Photosynthesis Superpowers From a ‘Proton Pump’ | Quanta MagazineNew research reveals how marine microbes use an extra membrane that once had digestive functions to boost their yield from photosynthesis.

The neuroscience of traumaWhat sets trauma apart from regular bad experiences? A leading neuroscientist explains.

Scientists Can Now Reconstruct What You're Looking At By Enhancing Reflections In Your Eye - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a world where eyes have long been hailed as the windows to the soul, researchers from the University of Maryland have flipped the scr

The World's First Offshore Green Hydrogen Facility Is Now Online - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a groundbreaking achievement, the world’s first offshore wind-green hydrogen pilot project has successfully generated green hyd

Amazon Fire Max 11 review: an Android tablet you should buy | Digital TrendsAmazon's Fire Max 11 takes the Fire tablet range in a brave new direction, and our extensive review examines if the strategy has worked.

These Authors Are Suing OpenAI For 'Ingesting' Their Books - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Two award-winning authors, Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay, have recently filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the prominent generative

This AI-Powered Robot Fish Explores Mysterious Organisms Under The Sea - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement There’s an amazing new fish-like robot called Belle that is exploring the ocean and gathering important information without causin

Earning Cash While Saving Lives: How DiagnosUs Is Revolutionizing AIMIT alumnus’ platform taps the wisdom of crowds to label medical data for AI companies. Centaur Labs created an app that experts use to classify medical data in exchange for small cash prizes. Those opinions are used to train and improve life-saving AI models. When Erik Duhaime PhD ’19 was wor

STN member Bill Krajec

Up In Flames: The Fact And Fiction Behind Spontaneous Human CombustionChilling cases and fascinating theories surrounding this much-debated phenomenon.

STN member Bill Krajec

More Than 20,000 Military Members Became Sterile After COVID Vaccination - American Liberty ReportThe COVID data that I’ve read through and analyzed this week is so shocking that I had to check my math twice. I must have made a mistake, I thought. Out of the 1,195,000 active duty military members in the USA and the 778,000 reserve troops, 863,013 developed nervous system diseases in the six-mont

Creative People Do Something The Rest of Us Usually AvoidExtended periods of solitude can leave many of us climbing the walls for something to occupy our minds.

The Surprising Connection Between Chewing and Type 2 DiabetesMehmet A. Eskan, a researcher at the University at Buffalo, has a recommendation for medical practitioners treating individuals with Type 2 diabetes (T2D): check your patients’ teeth. Eskan's recent research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, revealed a notable correlation between chewing functi

Daily Vitamin D Consumption May Reduce Cancer MortalityA daily dose of Vitamin D could potentially decrease cancer mortality rates by twelve percent, according to an analysis of 14 top-tier studies involving almost 105,000 participants at the German Cancer Research Center. Vitamin D deficiency is a widespread global issue and is notably prevalent amo

Anti-Aging Injection Boosts Memories in Monkeys, Scientists FindKlotho, a naturally-occurring protein that declines in mammals with age, can improve the cognitive function of aging rhesus monkeys.

More Powerful Than SSRIs – Scientists Develop Two New Drug Candidates That Could Treat Addiction and DepressionThe targeted molecules are more powerful than SSRI antidepressants and avoid ibogaine’s dangerous side effects. Two new potential drugs for the treatment of addiction and depression have been created by scientists, drawing from the medicinal properties of a traditional African psychedelic plant cal

Opinion | The Alternative, Optimistic Story of Population DeclineRather than obsess over labor shortages and pension support, we need to look at the brighter spots for our world.

ChatGPT website traffic has fallen for the first time | Digital TrendsResearch suggests that website traffic to AI-powered ChatGPT chatbot has fallen for the first time, so are people already losing interest?

AI Robots Just Told The U.N That They Can Run The World Better Than Humans, But They Won't Take Over Jobs - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Worried looks were exchanged between audience members at the ‘AI for Good’ conference in Geneva when an AI-powered robot said that t

Electronic Renaissance: How Machine Learning Reimagines Material ModelingDeep learning approach enables accurate electronic structure calculations at large scales. The arrangement of electrons in matter, known as the electronic structure, plays a crucial role in fundamental but also applied research such as drug design and energy storage. However, the lack of a simula

OpenAI Is So Worried About AI Causing Human Extinction, It's Putting Together A Team To Control 'Superintelligence' - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement OpenAI, the mastermind behind ChatGPT, is taking decisive action to confront the awe-inspiring power of superintelligent artificial inte

Exploring the Universe’s “First Light” With NASA’s James Webb Space TelescopeAfter the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year in service, astronomers are awash in new observations that illuminate the oldest stars and galaxies. In its first year on the job, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has performed in ways that can only be described as stellar. Launched at the t

Ancient Stars Somehow Survived Close to the Center of the Milky WayAstronomers surveyed ancient stars in the Milky Way to chart their motions and chemical abundances. They found slow-moving, metal-poor stars.

Bernie Reim's astronomical update for July

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