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This Tuesday (12/12//23) - Topics sensationalized!:
Caught on smartphone - AI images, how much energy? - Larry's comments - How long is Now? - Printing in your body - Modern food less nutritious? - Microbiome, missing microbes - Commuting=Poor mental health - Musings in Metaphysics - 3D print inside your body - Genetics that fend off Alzheimer's - Modern foods, less nutrients? - Microbiomes that are missing microbes - Rocky Mountain Rocky Fever in Mexico - Kitty brings schizophrenia to kids - Ñithium found in US - The Great wall and bio crusts - High Altitude Homo Erectus - LIDAR, thousands of ancient sites in the Amazon - Working with Bamboo - Where the Maya posh lived - Mice pass mirror test - Kiwi Birds hatch - Another look at Carrington events - Spectacular Cassiopeia - Vanishing Galaxy - Tricky distances - The improbable Universe - Improbable Alien life - What if we were not the first? - Endangered species, more of them - Big Oil fail - Custom AI - Grok - Glitter bombs - Live 'forever' at some effort - Earthing

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Larry's comments Dec 12 23

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Doctors Invent New Way to 3D Print Inside the BodyResearchers have developed a new way to 3D-print inside the human body using a special bioink and ultrasound waves.

Is modern food lower in nutrients?Studies suggest that our fruit and vegetables are losing nutrients. Bárbara Pinho examines the evidence and looks at the implications of a 'nutrient collapse'

Massive Study Finds a Link Between Commuting And Poor Mental HealthNo one wants to be stuck in traffic, especially not with research showing how detrimental it can be to our health.

A Hidden Deposit Of Lithium Has Been Found Under A Lake In The U.S - And It Could Power 375 Million EVs - Wonderful EngineeringThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has disclosed the discovery of a vast lithium deposit beneath California’s Salton Sea, a revelation that has

Stone Age Pioneers: Homo erectus’ High-Altitude Life 2 Million Years AgoTwo million years in the past, Homo erectus ventured beyond East Africa's lowland savannas into the high-altitude areas of the Ethiopian highlands. Now, a new study reveals that they created both Oldowan and Acheulean tools in these regions. It also reexamines an early hominin fossil initially found

Stone Age Pioneers: Homo erectus’ High-Altitude Life 2 Million Years AgoTwo million years in the past, Homo erectus ventured beyond East Africa's lowland savannas into the high-altitude areas of the Ethiopian highlands. Now, a new study reveals that they created both Oldowan and Acheulean tools in these regions. It also reexamines an early hominin fossil initially found

Rewriting History: New Research Reveals That There Are Thousands of Undiscovered Pre-Columbian Sites in the Amazon RainforestA new study estimates that over 10,000 Pre-Columbian archaeological sites remain undiscovered across the Amazon basin. Using remote sensing data and predictive spatial modeling, the research sheds light on the potential impact of pre-Columbian societies on the Amazon area. “The massive extent of

Mice pass the mirror test, a classic indicator of self-recognitionResearchers report that mice display behavior that resembles self-recognition when they see themselves in the mirror. When the researchers marked the foreheads of black-furred mice with a spot of white ink, the mice spent more time grooming their heads in front of the mirror -- presumably to try and wash away the ink spot. However, the mice only showed this self-recognition-like behavior if they were already accustomed to mirrors, if they had socialized with other mice who looked like them, and if the ink spot was relatively large.

Webb Space Telescope Discovers Hidden “Green Monster” in Stunning HD View of Exploded StarMysterious Features Hide in Near-Infrared Light Objects in space reveal different aspects of their composition and behavior at different wavelengths of light. Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is one of the most well-studied objects in the Milky Way across the wavelength spectrum. However, the

Why Was it Tricky to Know the Distances to Galaxies JWST Was Seeing?One of the chief objectives of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to study the formation and evolution of the earliest galaxies in the Universe, which emerged more than 13 billion years ago. To this end, scientists must identify galaxies from different cosmological epochs to explore how their properties have changed over time. This, … Continue reading "Why Was it Tricky to Know the Distances to Galaxies JWST Was Seeing?"

An Existential Problem in the Search for Alien LifeWe don’t really know what life is in the first place.

Endangered species list grows by 2,000. Climate change is part of the problemClimate change is worsening the planet's biodiversity crises, making environments more deadly for thousands of species and accelerating the precipitous decline in the number of plants and animals on Earth, according to an international organization that tracks species health.

STN member Kirsten Dehner

You'll Be Astonished How Much Power It Takes to Generate a Single AI ImageResearchers from AI developer Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University calculated how much power AI tools need to generate an image.

Stanford Scientists Discover Common Genetic Factor That Fends Off Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’sA large-scale analysis of medical and genetic information revealed that individuals carrying a specific variant of a gene linked to immune function had a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Approximately 1 in 5 individuals possess a specific gene variant that seems to

Missing MicrobesWhy do so many people in industrialized Western societies have unhealthy microbiomes that lack diversity?

Kids with cats have more than double the risk of developing schizophrenia, researchers findResearchers at The Park Center for Mental Health, Australia, have added to the growing body of evidence that cat ownership is a major risk factor for schizophrenia and quantified the risk at more than double.

Deadly Rocky Mountain spotted fever seen in travelers to MexicoThe CDC issued a health alert about cases of the tick-spread disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever seen among people who recently traveled to or lived in Tecate, Baja California.

Biocrusts on Great Wall of China found to be protecting it from erosionA small international team of soil and water ecosystem conservation specialists has found that biocrusts clinging to parts of the Great Wall of China have been serving to protect the famous structure from erosion. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their study and analysis of material growing on the wall.

Ancient Maya power brokers lived in neighborhoods, not just palacesLidar discoveries and recent excavations are forcing archaeologists to rethink ancient Maya political structures.

Kiwi Birds Hatch For The First Time After 150 Years In New Zealand - Wonderful EngineeringIn a remarkable win for wildlife enthusiasts and conservationists alike, the chirps of two newly hatched kiwi chicks echo through the hills of Welling

James Webb telescope finds 'vanishing' galaxy from the dawn of the universeThe early galaxy AzTECC71 is so far away it keeps disappearing from telescope observations. A new study by the James Webb Space Telescope finally pins it down.

This Is How You Can Create Your Own Custom GPT In Just 15 Minutes - Wonderful EngineeringIn early November, OpenAI introduced updates to ChatGPT, including GPTs — customizable versions that users with ChatGPT Plus can develop for special

Bernie Reim's astronomical update for December

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