How electric fish were able to evolve electric organs?
Not by accidentally sticking their fins in a plug socket, apparently?
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-electric-fish-evolve.html
Not by accidentally sticking their fins in a plug socket, apparently?
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-electric-fish-evolve.html
phys.org
How electric fish were able to evolve electric organs
Electric organs help electric fish, such as the electric eel, do all sorts of amazing things: They send and receive signals that are akin to bird songs, helping them to recognize other electric fish by ...
3400-year-old sunken city emerges from the Tigris River
Just down the road from Gilgamesh's tomb, who knew?
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/3400-year-old-city-emerges-from-the-tigris-river/143760
Just down the road from Gilgamesh's tomb, who knew?
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/3400-year-old-city-emerges-from-the-tigris-river/143760
HeritageDaily
3400-year-old sunken city emerges from the Tigris River
A team of German and Kurdish archaeologists have excavated a 3400-year-old Mittani Empire-era city that has emerged in the Tigris River. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
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Strange 'unknown structure,' a faint radio glow thousands of light-years wide, found around closest quasar
God looking for the breaker box?
https://www.space.com/quasar-supermassive-black-hole-radio-glow-unknown-structure
God looking for the breaker box?
https://www.space.com/quasar-supermassive-black-hole-radio-glow-unknown-structure
Space.com
Strange 'unknown structure,' a faint radio glow thousands of light-years wide, found around closest quasar
The closest quasar to the Milky Way is giving up its secrets, thanks to an innovative technique developed by Japanese astronomers.
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Text To Image AI Has Created Its Own Secret Language, Researcher Claims
This is the 2nd time this has happened. 2 Facebook bots had to be switched off, because they were doing the same thing and communicating with each other. When're scientists and programmers going to learn that AI is not what they think it is?
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/text-to-image-ai-has-created-its-own-secret-language-researcher-claims/
This is the 2nd time this has happened. 2 Facebook bots had to be switched off, because they were doing the same thing and communicating with each other. When're scientists and programmers going to learn that AI is not what they think it is?
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/text-to-image-ai-has-created-its-own-secret-language-researcher-claims/
IFLScience
Text To Image AI Has Created Its Own Secret Language, Researcher Claims
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Time crystals 'impossible' but obey quantum physics
Anyone else think that, that statement, is a contradiction? If they're impossible, how can they obey the laws of physics? They don't exist in the first place to be able to?
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-crystals-impossible-quantum-physics.html
Anyone else think that, that statement, is a contradiction? If they're impossible, how can they obey the laws of physics? They don't exist in the first place to be able to?
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-crystals-impossible-quantum-physics.html
phys.org
Time crystals 'impossible' but obey quantum physics
Scientists have created the first "time-crystal" two-body system in an experiment that seems to bend the laws of physics.
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A giant planet may have "escaped" from our solar system, study finds
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/27/a-giant-planet-may-have-escaped-from-our-solar-system-study-finds/
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/27/a-giant-planet-may-have-escaped-from-our-solar-system-study-finds/
Salon
A giant planet may have "escaped" from our solar system, study finds
A simulation-based study suggests there may have been another gas giant that went missing as the solar system evolved
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Researchers Find That Eating a Certain Protein Is Related to Developing Depression
I'll save you the trouble, that protein is found in meat. In particular, beef poultry, pork and... You get the idea? Anything to get you to stop eating it?
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-find-that-eating-a-certain-protein-is-related-to-developing-depression/
I'll save you the trouble, that protein is found in meat. In particular, beef poultry, pork and... You get the idea? Anything to get you to stop eating it?
https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-find-that-eating-a-certain-protein-is-related-to-developing-depression/
SciTechDaily
Researchers Find That Eating a Certain Protein Is Related to Developing Depression
A new study shows, in humans, mice, and flies, that elevated plasma levels and a diet rich in the amino acid proline cause a more severe state of depression. Amino acids are monomers that are the building blocks of protein. When a person consumes food containing…
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Dark Energy
I've a video in the works on this, because I have an idea that might explain this concept in a way, which might make more sense?
https://scitechdaily.com/astronomy-astrophysics-101-dark-energy/
I've a video in the works on this, because I have an idea that might explain this concept in a way, which might make more sense?
https://scitechdaily.com/astronomy-astrophysics-101-dark-energy/
SciTechDaily
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Dark Energy
Dark energy is the name given to the as yet unknown energy source that is causing our Universe’s expansion to accelerate. Our Universe is expanding. One of the great mysteries of modern astronomy is that the expansion rate appears to be accelerating. The…
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Advanced quantum computer made available to the public for first time
What's the betting that the first thing it's used for, by the public, is looking for porn?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322807-advanced-quantum-computer-made-available-to-the-public-for-first-time/
What's the betting that the first thing it's used for, by the public, is looking for porn?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2322807-advanced-quantum-computer-made-available-to-the-public-for-first-time/
New Scientist
Advanced quantum computer made available to the public for first time
A computer capable of achieving quantum advantage – a demonstration of supremacy over conventional machines – is the first that anyone can use over the internet
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Researchers report the case of a non-vaccinated patient coinfected with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2
And the fear mongering continues
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220530/Researchers-report-the-case-of-a-non-vaccinated-patient-coinfected-with-SARS-CoV-2-Omicron-BA1-and-BA2.aspx
And the fear mongering continues
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220530/Researchers-report-the-case-of-a-non-vaccinated-patient-coinfected-with-SARS-CoV-2-Omicron-BA1-and-BA2.aspx
News-Medical.net
Researchers report the case of a non-vaccinated patient coinfected with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2
A recent study published in The Lancet Microbe described the case of a non-vaccinated female coinfected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 subvariants.
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Neuroscientists expand CRISPR toolkit with new, compact Cas7-11 enzyme
CRISPR, in my view, is the most terrifying thing in science after AI
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-neuroscientists-crispr-toolkit-compact-cas7-.html
CRISPR, in my view, is the most terrifying thing in science after AI
https://phys.org/news/2022-05-neuroscientists-crispr-toolkit-compact-cas7-.html
phys.org
Neuroscientists expand CRISPR toolkit with new, compact Cas7-11 enzyme
Last year, researchers at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research discovered and characterized Cas7-11, the first CRISPR enzyme capable of making precise, guided cuts to strands of RNA without harming ...
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4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests
Jeez, we've pissed 4 off already?
https://www.livescience.com/malicious-alien-civilizations-odds
Jeez, we've pissed 4 off already?
https://www.livescience.com/malicious-alien-civilizations-odds
livescience.com
4 hostile alien civilizations may lurk in the Milky Way, a new study suggests
But Earth is 100 times more likely to be destroyed by an asteroid than invaded by aliens.
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Scientists Have Established a Key Biological Difference Between Psychopaths and Normal People
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-established-a-key-biological-difference-between-psychopaths-and-normal-people/
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-have-established-a-key-biological-difference-between-psychopaths-and-normal-people/
SciTechDaily
Scientists Have Established a Key Biological Difference Between Psychopaths and Normal People
A new study has shown that psychopathic people have a bigger striatum area in their brain Neuroscientists using MRI scans discovered that psychopathic people have a 10% larger striatum, a cluster of neurons in the subcortical basal ganglia of the forebrain…
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