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This Tuesday (07/18/23) - Topics sensationalized!:

Believe it, or Not - Larry's comments - Our new Epoch - Universe, twice as old? - Old Black Hole - The Tolman Test - Pancreatic cancer vaccine - Oceangate bully - Why Psychopaths rise to power - Ozempick shortage - Office buildings devalue - Plant extract for Diabetes II - 1.3 Billion with Diabetes in 2050 - Fungi cheat Death - Scorpions are #1 - New hearts for old - Fungi concrete - Automatic Teslas, drivers cheat - New Solar Plane - Urinals check your Health - Global warming articles - Aquatic articles - 'Dark Oxygen' - Ancient Labyrinth under Mexican Church - Solid Roman Concrete - Forecasting Earthquakes - Solar probe - Vibrated particles - Satellite watching lightning strikes - Jupiter's Magnetosphere - Ai Stuff - Smartphones will have replicable batteries.
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Scientists Say We Could Be in a New EpochThe Anthropocene likely started in the 1950s, scientists say

Webb Space Telescope Detects Universe’s Oldest Active Supermassive Black HoleThe James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the most remote active supermassive black hole known to date, situated in the galaxy CEERS 1019, which existed about 570 million years after the Big Bang. Researchers, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), have identified the farthest active sup

OceanGate CEO Reportedly Used Legal Threats To Silence His Critics Before The Ill-Fated Titanic Mission - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In an unfortunate twist of fate, OceanGate’s ill-fated journey to the Titanic wreck turned from an expedition to disaster as the T

Tolman surface brightness test - Wikipedia

The Global Ozempic Shortage Could Last a Very Long Time. Here's Why.A global shortage means some people with diabetes are struggling to access the drug semaglutide, which is sold under the brand name Ozempic.

This Plant Extract Has Been Found To Stabilize Blood Sugar Levels In Type 2 Diabetics - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In the quest for groundbreaking solutions to combat type 2 diabetes, scientists at the University of Otago in New Zealand have unearthed

Long-Lived Fungi Have Evolved a Way to Cheat Death For CenturiesLong-lived fungi are the latest organisms to go under the microscope in search of new understandings as to why they don't accrue life-limiting mutations, given their age.

Heart Transplant Recipient Abandons Her Healthy Liver In Historic FirstOn the rare occasion that a patient's heart and liver are both swapped for a second-hand set from an organ donor, it's because something has gone critically wrong with each.

Tesla Drivers Are Using Cheap Weights To Fool Their Cars Into Thinking They’re Paying Attention - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a bid to outsmart their own cars, Tesla owners have resorted to an ingenious, albeit dangerous, trick: using cheap steering wheel wei

These High-Tech Shopping Mall Urinals Can Provide Urine Tests On The Spot - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Step into the future of convenience and health monitoring in China, where high-tech urinals have taken center stage. These extraordinary

Air pollution particles may be cause of dramatic drop in global insect numbersResearchers report that an insect's ability to find food and a mate is reduced when their antennae are contaminated by particulate matter from industry, transport, bushfires, and other sources of air pollution.

‘Things Don’t Always Change in a Nice, Gradual Way’Climate change feels more real now than ever.

This Mysterious Sea Otter Keeps Stealing Surfboards, And No One Can Figure Out Why - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement A bothersome female sea otter in Santa Cruz, California has gained a reputation for bothering surfers and taking their surfboards. The s

See the microscopic universe that lives in a single drop of waterDriven by what he calls an “insane passion,” Angel Fitor photographs the minuscule organisms that dwell in the Mediterranean Sea.

Underground Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light | Quanta MagazineIn some deep subterranean aquifers, cells have a chemical trick for making oxygen that could sustain whole underground ecosystems.

We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Stood The Test of TimeThe ancient Romans were master builders and engineers, perhaps most famously represented by the still-functional aqueducts.

A Satellite is Now Continuously Watching Lightning Strikes in EuropeSatellites often offer new perspectives when they launch. Sometimes because of the location they are placed in – sometimes because of their instrumentation. A new satellite by a consortium of European companies and agencies now provides a new perspective on one of the most powerful and fleeting natural phenomena – lightning. The Meteostat Third Generation … Continue reading "A Satellite is Now Continuously Watching Lightning Strikes in Europe"

Real Time Lightning Map

Google is Already Testing a Medical AI Chatbot in HospitalsGoogle has been quietly testing a medical AI chatbot in Mayo Clinic and other hospitals for months, according to a report.

Anti-Robotaxi Protestors Are Using Traffic Cones To Disable Self-Driving Cars - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement Protests have erupted in San Francisco against autonomous vehicle companies like Waymo and Cruise, with citizens resorting to an unconve

Smartphones Will Now Officially Be Required To Have Replaceable Batteries By 2027 - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement The European Council recently passed a regulation demanding that all battery-powered devices– specifically, smartphones– must contai

Larry's comments

stuff for July 18.pdf

11 mins - STN member Ed Hug

Pancreatic cancer vaccine plus immunotherapy and antibody spark immune system response in pancreatic cancersGiving patients with operable pancreatic cancers a three-pronged combination immunotherapy treatment consisting of the pancreatic cancer vaccine GVAX, the immune checkpoint therapy nivolumab and urelemab, an anti-CD137 agonist antibody treatment, is safe, increases the amount of cancer-killing immune system T cells in the tumors and appears effective when given two weeks prior to cancer-removal surgery, according to new research directed by Johns Hopkins investigators.

Why psychopaths rise to powerWhy we keep giving power to the wrong people, according to political scientist and associate professor Brian Klaas.

Remote Work Could Wipe Out $800 Billion From The Value Of Office Buildings, Report Suggests - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement According to a recent report from McKinsey, the value of office space in some of the world’s major cities could decrease significa

Scientists Say 1.3 Billion People Will Have Diabetes by 2050Researchers are projecting that 1.3 billion people will have diabetes by 2050 worldwide, leading to great new strains on health systems.

This New Material Made Using Fungi Could Replace Concrete - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In an exciting step forward for sustainable construction and biofabrication, a team of scientists from Newcastle University has develope

This New 115ft Solar-Powered Drone Can Fly At 70,000ft For A Year - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement A groundbreaking solar-powered drone developed by BAE Systems, a London-based company, has successfully completed its inaugural journey

When Will the Southwest Become Unlivable?Air-conditioning and swimming pools are sustaining my community. I worry about the day when they won’t be enough.

Climate Change Is Shifting the Color of Earth's OceansMore than half of our oceans have taken on a greener hue in the past 20 years, a trend that cannot be fully explained by natural variation, per a new study

China Is Sending Fish To Its Space Station - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement In a ground-breaking experiment that might have enormous ramifications for upcoming space missions, China is getting ready to send fish

Sea Mammals May Never Be Able to Return From The OceanAquatic adaptations in mammals may be irreversible, according to a new study investigating the means by which more than 5,000 species transitioned from land to water.

A Dead Whale at The Bottom of The Ocean Is Now a Thriving Home of LifeAs life comes to an end, so too does life go on.

Mysterious Labyrinth Found Hidden Under a Church in MexicoArchaeologists working at the Mitla site in southern Mexico have come across a discovery worthy of an Indiana Jones movie: a labyrinth of chambers and passageways hidden below a church, representing an 'entrance' to the underworld.

Scientists Vibrated a Box of Particles And They Formed a Strange New MaterialFootage of thousands of tiny metal spheres set jiggling in a shallow tray has revealed an arrangement of particles once considered impossible.

Research team identifies giant swirling waves at the edge of Jupiter's magnetosphereA team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has found that NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter frequently encounters giant swirling waves at the boundary between the solar wind and Jupiter's magnetosphere. The waves are an important process for transferring energy and mass from the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emitted by the sun, to planetary space environments.

Evaluating the ability of ChatGPT and other large language models to detect fake newsLarge language models (LLMs) are an evolution of natural language processing (NLP) techniques that can rapidly generate texts closely resembling those written by humans and complete other simple language-related tasks. These models have become increasingly popular after the public release of Chat GPT, a highly performing LLM developed by OpenAI.

Generative AI Is Running Out Of Text To Train Itself On, Reports Say - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement ChatGPT and other AI-powered bots may soon be “running out of text in the universe” that trains them to know what to say, ac

ChatGPT Can Turn Bad Writers Into Better Ones, MIT Study Finds - Wonderful EngineeringAdvertisement ChatGPT, the powerful language model developed by OpenAI, is transforming the writing capabilities of professionals in the workplace. Si

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