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SciTechNature goes LIVE at the SMA Biblioteca - Bernie's Astro for May - Amazon; "Importada" to Mexico from US becomes problematic - Larry's comments 050625 - STN member Bill Krajec " Your AI Hates You" - Experiment sheds new light on the origins of consciousness - Gene-editing therapy fighting advanced gastrointestinal cancers - Sunlight Trick Can Reduce Morning Fatigue - Forgotten Bean Could Save Coffee - Cracking the Code for Tastier Apples - Zero Pesticides, Zero Weeds - Drug Tested in Mice Repairs The Eye to Restore Vision - All-women extreme divers linked to good blood pressure and cold tolerance - we traded Fur for Sweat Glands; Now, Our Wounds Take Longer to Heal - How quickly do humans mutate? Four generations - Drone Can Induce Lightning Strikes - Sea lion got rhythm - Whale urine important to life in the sea - Wikipedia Is Now Using Generative AI - Tesla Announces Breakthrough In Battery Technology - Harvard’s former chemistry chair takes new position at Chinese university - Chinese scientists discover heat-resistant rice gene - Chinese Robot Factory Works 24/7 Without Lights, Breaks - China Is Building An Underwater Station - China WiFi's The North Pole - How Is Platinum Made? - Space Solar Laser-Beamed Power - gas cloud 5,500 times as massive as the sun lurks nearby - Massive Spiral Galaxy In the Early Universe - fracture in galactic 'bone' - The Impossible Big Bang - Earthquake that changed the course of history - AI is just as overconfident and biased as humans - Loss of sea ice alters the colors of light in the ocean - Ice Free Arctic Ocean by 2030 now a real possibility!
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Bernie's Astro, May 6th 2025

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Scientists Don't Know Why Consciousness Exists, And a New Study Proves It"Theories are like toothbrushes," it's sometimes said.

How a Forgotten Bean Could Save Coffee From ExtinctionOne leading botanist is scouring remote corners of the earth to find new species that could keep our mugs full

Cracking the Code for Tastier Apples: New Genome Study Reveals Secrets:
https://scitechdaily.com/cracking-the-code-for-tastier-apples-new-genome-study-reveals-secrets/

World First: Japan Claims New Drone Can Induce Lightning StrikesA Tokyo-based tech giant claims to have created the first drone in the world to induce and guide lightning strikes.

Wikipedia Is Now Using Generative AIThe generative AI revolution has reached Wikipedia, though the organization remains firmly committed to its human editorial principles. On Wednesday,

Harvard’s former chemistry chair takes new position at Chinese universityCharles Lieber, the nanoscience pioneer convicted for not disclosing his ties to China, has just joined Tsinghua University

Chinese scientists discover heat-resistant rice geneChinese researchers have identified a key gene that enhances rice's heat tolerance while maintaining grain quality and yield, which addresses growing threats to rice production under extreme heat.The discovery, made by a team from Huazhong Agricultural

Xiaomi’s Robot Factory Works 24/7 Without Lights, Breaks, Or PeopleThe 2025 autonomous “dark factory” operated by Xiaomi serves as a robotics wonder and represents an industrial transformation. The 81,000-

China Is Building An Underwater Station As Complex As Three ISS Modules To Hunt For Buried TreasuresThe South China Sea will see China build a deep-sea research station at 2,000 meters depth by 2030. The “deep-sea space station” project w

China Covered The ‘Peak Of The World’ - And It Has Caused Something Never Seen BeforeLike the lyrics of Imagine Dragons, it’s fair to say China is feeling “on top of the world”—and quite literally so. A Chinese clean energy pro

Chinese Automaker Stuns Industry With New Electric Car BreakthroughBYD Co., the Chinese automaker, introduced a revolutionary electric vehicle fleet that requires only five minutes for charging, just like the duration

Tesla Announces Breakthrough In Battery Technology That Could Change The EV GameWhile Tesla grapples with a decline in sales and mounting pressure from global protests targeting CEO Elon Musk, the company is quietly scoring a sign

Tesla's new battery comparison using Perplexity search:
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-does-tesla-s-4680-battery-llq2.bpxTuOgagFENRN6Fg

This Space Solar Startup Is Preparing A Laser-Beamed Power Demo For 2026Once the stuff of sci-fi and ambitious TED Talks, the idea of transmitting solar power from space to Earth is inching closer to reality if not exactly

The earthquake that changed the course of historyHow a devastating earthquake in 1755 influenced the Age of Enlightenment.

Loss of sea ice alters the colors of light in the oceanThe disappearance of sea ice in polar regions due to global warming not only increases the amount of light entering the ocean, but also changes its color. These changes have far-reaching consequences for photosynthetic organisms such as ice algae and phytoplankton.

Amazon Has No Choice But To Display Tariffs On Prices NowAmazon faced public criticism after media reports indicated the company planned to place tariffs on its merchandise because of new U.S. import fees. A

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Larry's comments April 29th, 2025

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STN member Bill Krajec - Your AI Hates You

Your AI Hates YouA Rather Frightening Validation of Emergent Utility Pathologies in LLMs

Gene-editing therapy shows early success in fighting advanced gastrointestinal cancersResearchers at the University of Minnesota have completed a first-in-human clinical trial testing a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique to help the immune system fight advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. The results, recently published in The Lancet Oncology, show encouraging signs of the safety and potential effectiveness of the treatment.

This Sunlight Trick Can Reduce Morning Fatigue, Study SuggestsIf you often feel exhausted in the morning, you might be one of the millions worldwide experiencing chronic sleep deprivation.

Experimental Drug Tested in Mice Repairs The Eye to Restore VisionOur eyes could potentially be coaxed into a special repair mode above and beyond our natural self-healing abilities, according to a new study, thanks to the delivery of antibodies that trigger nerve cell regeneration in the retina.

Genetic analysis of all-women extreme divers finds changes linked to blood pressure and cold toleranceA new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could help them survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ultimately lead to better treatments for blood pressure disorders.

Human Evolution Traded Fur for Sweat Glands—and Now, Our Wounds Take Longer to Heal Than Those of Other MammalsEven compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice as long, new research suggests

Rhythmically trained sea lion Ronan returns for an encore—and performs as well as humansAnimal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize aspects of music, including rhythm and beat, remains a tantalizing field at the intersection of biology and psychology.

Why whale urine is so important to life in the seaEven biologists only capture a glimpse of the lives of whales. There are still many species whose lives are largely a mystery, particularly the deep diving whales.

A gas cloud 5,500 times as massive as the sun lurks nearbyAt 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

Chandra diagnoses cause of fracture in galactic 'bone'Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio telescopes.

AI is just as overconfident and biased as humans can be, study showsIrrational tendencies — including the hot hand, base-rate neglect and sunk cost fallacy — commonly show up in AI systems, calling into question how useful they actually are.

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