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This Tuesday (02/27/24) - Topics sensationalized!:
Jetting - Back to the Moroccan Dunes, 13.000 years ago - Drunk Bee death sentence - 1,000-Year-Old Giant Statue of a Man Clutching His Genitals - Hunter-gatherers avoided inbreeding - Untold Cancer Risk of Ultra-Processed Food - CVS and Walgreens now sell Abortion Pills - Male mouse death from female scent - Night brain waves Key to Preventing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s? - Older Americans Follow One of Nine Trajectories 3 years before the end - More about microplastics - 18 Never-Before-Seen Species of Gut Microbes - Scientists Uncover Tactile Connection of Time - Pythagoras Was Wrong: No Universal Musical Harmonies - Innovative Method To Prevent Menopause, Possibly Forever - Potato Blight in America Before the Irish Potato Famine - A Universal Antivenom - Elephant Burial Ritual Witnessed - 3 New Native Species of Mouse in Australia - prehistoric bovine brought back to life - Platypus stabs woman with venomous spurs - Lost Rituals of the Bell Beaker People - Fossilized forest unearthed in the UK - Not Animal, Not Plant: Strange Organism - This Week in Volcano News - AI Is To Design Drugs - AI Is Set To Put AI Into Humanoid Robots - Elon's lawsuit against OpenAI - SpaceX Crew-8 head to launchpad - JWST Keeps Busting Big Bang - Largest Tokamak Is Being Decommissioned - Does The Universe Go On Forever? - Astrophysicists keep finding things that “shouldn’t exist” - Scientists Have Smashed The Solar Cell Edifficie - Plasma oscillations propel breakthroughs - Jupiter's moon Europa, less oxygen - Solar maximum upon us - How Warm Are the Oceans on the Icy Moons? - Strange Circular Phenomenon in The Sky - Exploding, green 'devil comet' photobombing solar eclipse - Can you Blow Your Own Sail? - Reduce Cultivated Meat Production Costs - Microbe From Yellowstone Could Feed the World - Scientists’ Push for Holy Grail Citrus - 80 MPH Glacier Fracture - Pivotal Moment For Humanity as Disasters Threaten to Converge - reductions in sea ice are helping tree lines spread - Global Warming Sparks a Diversity Explosion in Soil Microbes - The Muisca: Legends of Gold.
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The 11,000-Year-Old Giant Statue of a Man Clutching His Genitals - GreekReporter.comArchaeologists in Turkey's Gobekli and Karahan Tepe discovered a statue of a giant man clutching his genitals, along with other statues.

When Convenience Bites Back: The Untold Cancer Risk of Ultra-Processed FoodInternational study, led by the University of Bristol and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, analysed diet and lifestyle data on 450,111 adults who were followed for approximately 14 years. Eating more ultra-processed foods (UPFs) may be associated with a higher risk of developing c

Brain Waves at Night: The Key to Preventing Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s?Findings could pave the way for innovative strategies to tackle Alzheimer’s and various other neurological disorders. There lies a paradox in sleep. Its apparent tranquility juxtaposes with the brain’s bustling activity. The night is still, but the brain is far from dormant. During sleep, brain cel

The Hidden Dangers of Everyday Plastics: Scientists Link Phthalates to 56,600 Preterm BirthsA recent study suggests that regular contact with chemicals found in plastic food packaging and numerous cosmetic products could be linked to approximately 56,600 premature births in the United States during 2018. According to the study's authors, the medical expenses associated with these preterm b

In Search for the Origins of Antibiotic Resistance – Scientists Discover 18 Never-Before-Seen Species of Gut MicrobesAntibiotic-resistant infection is projected to catch up to cancer as the leading cause of death by 2050, making understanding and limiting the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria a priority worldwide. In a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS),

Yale Scientists Unveil Innovative Method To Prevent Menopause, Possibly ForeverMost women agree that menopause has its advantages and disadvantages. While some appreciate the end of menstrual cycles and concerns about unplanned pregnancies, others fear the potential for hot flashes, mood swings, and other unwelcome symptoms. What some women consider a brief and barely noticeab

The Silent Spread of Potato Blight in America Before the Irish Potato FamineEarly mapping of potato blight in the USA offers insights into the disease's initial spread and contemporary theories on its causes and remedies before reaching Europe. The first accurate maps of outbreaks of potato blight — a disease caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans that

Tragic And Mysterious Elephant Burial Ritual Witnessed by ScientistsAsian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behaviour reminiscent of human funeral rites.

The Tauros: A prehistoric bovine brought back to lifeIn Portugal, a rewilding initiative reintroduces large herbivores in the ecosystem.

Platypus stabs woman with its venomous spurs in odd caseAs the woman picked up the platypus, the animal dug its spurs dug into her bare hand and injected venom into her body.

Fossilized forest unearthed in the UK is the oldest ever found at 390 million years oldResearchers have discovered a fossil forest with small, palm-like trees and arthropod tracks dating back to the Middle Devonian.

ChatGPT Creator OpenAI Is Set To Put AI Into Humanoid RobotsOpenAI, renowned for its ChatGPT AI models, embarks on a groundbreaking endeavor by integrating its artificial intelligence systems into humanoid robo

SpaceX Crew-8 head to launchpad for tonight's ride to orbit | Digital TrendsNASA and SpaceX are aiming to launch Crew-8 from the Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station on Sunday night.

The World's Largest Tokamak Is Being Decommissioned After 40 YearsThe nuclear fusion laboratory known as Joint European Torus (JET) in Oxfordshire, UK, is being dismantled after 40 years of study. This historic choic

Plasma oscillations propel breakthroughs in fusion energyMost people know about solids, liquids, and gases as the main three states of matter, but a fourth state of matter exists as well. Plasma—also known as ionized gas—is the most abundant, observable form of matter in our universe, found in the sun and other celestial bodies.

Solar maximum may already be upon us, expert warns — but we won't know for sure until the sun's explosive peak is overA solar physicist who accurately predicted that the sun's explosive peak would arrive sooner — and be more powerful — than originally forecast tells Live Science that it may have already begun. However, we won't know for sure until long after it has finished.

NASA Photo Captures Strange Circular Phenomenon in The SkyEarlier this year, NASA's Terra satellite was zipping over the Gulf of Mexico when one of its instruments snapped a photo of some odd-looking clouds.

How a Microbe From Yellowstone's Hot Springs Could Help Feed the WorldA Chicago startup has turned a fungus found by NASA into a protein-packed food

The 80 MPH Glacier Fracture: A Wake-Up Call From AntarcticaThere’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest unknown in the future of rising seas, partly because glacier fracture physics is not yet fully understoo

Research finds evidence that reductions in sea ice are helping tree lines spread northA team of researchers from Alaska Pacific University, the University of Alaska Anchorage and, Northern Arizona University has found evidence that reductions in sea ice in the Arctic are helping white spruce trees move north and up mountainsides. In their study, published in the journal Science, the group compared tree-line spread in areas with reductions in sea ice and areas where little sea ice reduction has occurred.

STN member Hugh Hutner

Moroco’s mysterious moving star dune formed 13,000-years-agoScientists for the first time have estimated the formation date of the huge dunes called Lala Lallia in Morocco.

STN member Hugh Hutner

Europe's last hunter-gatherers had sophisticated societies that helped them avoid inbreedingAncient DNA from some of Europe's last hunter-gatherers reveals that they avoided inbreeding.

CVS and Walgreens to Begin Selling Abortion PillsThe two biggest pharmacy chains in the US plan to start selling the abortion pill mifepristone within the next week.

The Scent of a Female Can Trigger Early Death in Male MiceSmelling a potential new mate could impact how long an animal lives and its ability to reproduce, according to a new study.

Scientists Reveal That Nearly All Older Americans Follow One of Nine Trajectories in Their Last Three Years of LifeA Rutgers Health analysis of millions of Medicare records has laid the groundwork for improving end-of-life care by demonstrating that nearly all older Americans follow one of nine trajectories in their last three years of life. “Identifying which paths people actually take is a necessary precurs

Want Fewer Microplastics in Your Tap Water? Try This Simple TipNano- and microplastics are seemingly everywhere — water, soil, and the air. While many creative strategies have been attempted to get rid of these plastic bits, one unexpectedly effective solution for cleaning up drinking water, specifically, might be as simple as brewing a cup of tea or coffee.

Beyond the Five Senses: Scientists Uncover Tactile Connection of TimeSensory experiences and the perception of time are intricately linked within the somatosensory cortex of the brain. Here, the neural representations for both sensations are intertwined, being "multiplexed" within a shared neural network. Time is felt, seen, and heard, yet there are no specific se

Scientists Have Discovered a Potential Universal AntivenomScientists at Scripps Research identified antibodies that protect against a host of lethal snake venoms. Scripps Research scientists have developed an antibody that can block the effects of lethal toxins in the venoms of a wide variety of snakes found throughout Africa, Asia and Australia. The a

Triple Surprise: Researchers Discover New Native Species of Mouse in AustraliaAustralia can lay claim to two new species of native rodent thanks to a study from The Australian National University (ANU). The aptly named delicate mouse was previously thought to be a single species spanning a massive stretch of the country from the Pilbara in Western Australia, across parts o

Ancient DNA Analysis Uncovers the Lost Rituals of the Bell Beaker PeopleResearchers discover evidence of a male lineage inheritance system among Western Eurasian Bell Beaker societies, alongside familial ties connecting Britain and Luxembourg. Poignant prehistoric burials containing the remains of an adult and child laid in the grave as though embracing in death have l

AI Is Soon Going To Start Designing Drugs According To This CEODemis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, emphasized at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the critical role artificial intelligence (AI) would

These Swedish Scientists Have Smashed The Solar Cell Efficiency ‘World Record’Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in solar energy technology, setting a new world record for energy

Jupiter's moon Europa may have less oxygen than expected, a finding that might put a damper on lifeNew research suggests there's less oxygen on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa than thought—and that could affect what if any life might be lurking in the moon's underground ocean.

How Warm Are the Oceans on the Icy Moons? The Ice Thickness Provides a Clue.The warmth of sub-ice oceans is critical to their ability to support life. Measuring the ice thickness can tell us a lot.

Exploding, green 'devil comet' could photobomb April 8 total solar eclipse — and it might be visible with the naked eyeComet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the "devil comet," will be positioned close to the sun during the April 8 total solar eclipse. Some photographers also predict that the volcanic comet may be visible to the naked eye, especially if it blows its top before the big event.

Breakthrough Could Reduce Cultivated Meat Production Costs by up to 90%Bovine muscle cells have been engineered to generate their own growth signals, eliminating the need for expensive components in the production process. Cellular agriculture – the production of meat from cells grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from farm animals – is taking leaps in technolo

Juicy Breakthrough: New Discovery Speeds Scientists’ Push for Holy Grail CitrusIt’s one thing for a hybrid citrus tree to tolerate citrus greening disease (a.k.a. Huanglongbing) and quite another if it also produces orange-like fruit—especially if the juice makes for a delicious breakfast beverage! Now, that holy grail of traits could be closer at hand, thanks to the chemical

Pivotal Moment For Humanity as Disasters Threaten to ConvergeA new review of literature on global climate change written by an international team of more than 200 researchers leaves no room for doubt: humanity is heading for disaster, unless significant steps are taken to change that course.

Carbon Cycle Surprise: Global Warming Sparks a Diversity Explosion in Soil MicrobesNew findings enable more accurate prediction of the carbon cycle. Warmer soils harbor a greater diversity of active microbes, according to a new study from researchers at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna. The study, published in Scie

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