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This Tuesday (04/15/25) - Topics sensationalized!:

Worst Medical Mistakes in History - Larry's Comments - Too many Satellites - AI; drug discovery faster and more affordable - Gut-brain link may affect behavior in children with autism - Radiation from CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases - A fear of falling increases the risk of it happening - Lab-grown teeth - Simple Trick Could Help You Hear Better in a Noisy Room - What Is Aerated Concrete? - Conservative Americans consistently distrust science - our Pee Isn't a Health Tonic - Researchers Are Fleeing the US - Microplastic pollution found in insect casings - Communication satellites rival Starlink internet service - Is AI aligned with our human interests? - Does Neanderthal DNA put a ceiling on Out of Africa? - Did every civilization have inequality? No - Did Dinosaurs Have Pets? - Everything You Need To Know About: Pterosaurs - Einstein's insolvable problem - Jupiter's shrinking Red Spot - Eatly Galaxy lived fast died young - Half of the universe's hydrogen gas, found - Coming Meteor Showers - Neutrinos, less mass - AI passes Turing test?
Rooftop Solar PV is THE biggest climate mitigation technology - Industrial carbon producers contribute significantly to sea level rise.
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Gut-brain link may affect behavior in children with autismA new USC study suggests that gut imbalances in children with autism may create an imbalance of metabolites in the digestive system—ultimately disrupting neurotransmitter production and influencing behavioral symptoms.

A fear of falling increases the risk of it happening by up to 60%According to a new study, an older person who is concerned about having a fall is at a significantly higher risk of having a fall in the future. Researchers say that identifying and addressing this risk factor in older adults can help them stay mobile and independent for longer.

Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillingsAdults could one day grow their own replacement teeth instead of having fillings—as scientists make a key discovery. This research offers a potential way to repair teeth and a natural dental treatment alternative.

Nobel-Winning Scientist Says His Researchers Are Fleeing the Country Because of Trump's CrueltyAround 15 of Nobel Prize-winning biochemist David Baker's graduate students and postdoctoral researchers are looking to leave the US.

Sam Harris: Is AI aligned with our human interests?"What would a totalitarian society that is not well disposed to our own do if it had God-like power? We don't wanna find out."

Inequality isn't an inevitable aspect of society, 10,000 years of data revealsA study of 50,000 houses from the late Pleistocene to the onset of European colonialism has revealed that social inequality isn't inevitable, but rather a consequence of political choices.

Record-breaking 'dead' galaxy discovered by JWST lived fast and died young in the early universeThe most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the Big Bang.

Half of the universe's hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been foundAstronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter—half of the 15% of the universe's matter that is not dark matter—cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see.

Look Up! Two Stunning Meteor Showers Are About to Light Up The SkyThe skies of April and May are about to be lit up by two of the year's most beautiful meteor shower events.

Neutrinos’ maximum possible mass shrinks furtherThe KATRIN experiment in Germany nearly halved the maximum possible mass for neutrinos, setting it at 0.45 electron volts.

Larry's comments April 15th, 2025

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GraphBAN: Making drug discovery faster and more affordable through artificial intelligenceUM researchers have developed a deep learning model to predict compound protein interactions. GraphBAN is an inductive graph-based approach. The model is all about discovering new drug candidates in the pre-clinical stage. This means speeding up the drug discovery process and making it more affordable.

Radiation from CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases a year, study suggestsRadiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.

This Simple Trick Could Help You Hear Better in a Noisy RoomHave you ever had trouble taking in information in a noisy environment? A new study suggests that tapping your fingers in a steady rhythm could help you 'tune in' through the noise.

Conservative Americans consistently distrust science, survey findsConservative people in America appear to distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview, but also, compared to liberal Americans, their trust is also lower in fields that contribute to economic growth and productivity. Short interventions aimed at strengthening trust have little effect. This is apparent from new research by social psychologists at the University of Amsterdam, which has now been published in Nature Human Behavior.

Your Pee Isn't a Health Tonic, No Matter What Ancient Wisdom ClaimsTV star Ben Grylls says he does it for survival – and teaches his reality show contestants to do the same.

Amazon gears up to rival Starlink this year with a satellite launchAmazon is launching 27 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) next week, kicking off its years-in-the-making plan to set up a massive constellation and deliver internet access anywhere on the globe – similar to SpaceX's Starlink service.

An AI model has finally passed an authentic Turing test, scientists sayGPT-4.5 has successfully convinced people it’s human 73% of the time in an authentic configuration of the original Turing test.

Industrial carbon producers contribute significantly to sea level rise, modeling study findsResearch led by the Union of Concerned Scientists reports that emissions from the world's largest fossil fuel and cement companies have contributed significantly to both present-day and long-term sea level rise. Products from 122 major producers have contributed up to 37% of the rise in global sea level observed through 2022 and may account for an additional 0.26 to 0.55 meters by 2300.

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