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[Link] A Decades-Old Moon Mystery May Be Tied to an Ancient Impact
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
When you gaze up at the Moon from Earth, you are always looking at its near side, with those familiar dark patches, known as maria, that have inspired countless stories over the centuries.
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[Link] Night Vision: Now In Color
Read: 10/4/2022 hackaday.com
We’ve all gotten used to seeing movies depict people using night vision gear where everything appears as a shade of green.
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[Link] Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed
Read: 8/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.
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[Link] Paleontology ‘a hotbed of unethical practices rooted in colonialism’, say scientists
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The public image of palaeontologists as dusty, but rather affable academics, could be due an update.
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[Link] Tech Firm Offers Cops Facial Recognition to ID Homeless People
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
“Police use ODIN facial recognition to identify even non-verbal or intoxicated individuals,” the brochure from surveillance firm ODIN Intelligence reads. ODIN’s specific homelessness product is called ODIN Homeless Management Information System, or ODIN HMIS.
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[Link] Nobody Knows What Megalodon Really Looked Like, Scientists Say
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
It’s not hard to see why Megalodon, an epic species of shark that died out some 3.6 million years ago, has captivated the public imagination and become the star of movies like The Meg.
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[Link] Annoying, maybe, but not harmful: Why we feel compelled to crack our joints
Read: 28/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Some people habitually crack their joints, others can't, and many are irritated by those who do. So what's going on? Why do people do it, is it harmful, what makes the noises, and what would happen if our joints weren't able to crack?
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[Link] ‘It’s awful to be a medical exception’: the woman who cannot forget
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Every morning since January 2004, Rebecca Sharrock crosses off the date on a calendar in her room. Like many people, the 31-year-old uses it to keep track of time, distinguishing the present day from the ones that came before.
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[Link] ANU scientists discover unusually high rate of gene mutation behind kidney disease on the NT's Tiwi Islands
Read: 23/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
But in one day, his whole life changed. Just two days after a check-up, Mr Henry received devastating news from his doctor – his kidneys were shutting down, fast.
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[Link] The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort
Read: 8/12/2021 getpocket.com
The secret is inside the walls themselves.
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[Link] Researchers Made a Camera That’s the Size of a Grain of Salt
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
It can take images that are better than existing tech. A newly-developed camera the size of a grain of salt can take clear, full-color images—at the level of cameras that are 500,000 times larger.
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[Link] ‘Just never going to be OK’: report finds luxury brands falling behind on animal welfare
Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Despite recent commitments from the luxury fashion industry to reduce its environmental footprint, a report has revealed luxury fashion brands are among the worst in the industry for animal welfare, driven by their continued use of fur and exotic animal skins.
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[Link] Ivermectin could save rare Australian sea lion from deadly parasite
Read: 2/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Ivermectin has gained notoriety as an unproven prophylactic and therapy for COVID-19, but it has traditionally been used in human and veterinary medicine for parasitic infections. Hookworm contributes to up to 40 per cent of sea lion pup deaths.
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[Link] New Zealand Becomes First Country in the World To Fully Legalise Drug Checking
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
New Zealand has become the first country in the world to permanently legalise drug checking services, which will allow individuals to test the safety of illicit substances at festivals and other locations without the fear of legal repercussions.
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[Link] Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
Security researchers have checked the web's public key infrastructure and have measured a long-known but little-analyzed security threat: hidden root Certificate Authorities. Certificate Authorities, or CAs, vouch for the digital certificates we use to establish trust online.
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[Link] Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last December, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit demanding that Indian ISPs block access to Sci-Hub and Libgen for copyright infringement.
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[Link] Police presence at music festivals can lead to ‘panic overdoses’ of drugs
Read: 19/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police presence at music festivals leads some people to “panic overdose” in their attempt to avoid getting caught, an Australian study has found, with experts calling for a change in policing culture at festivals.
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[Link] Australian governments urged to set a date to ban cigarette retail sales
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Governments must set a date for banning the sale of cigarettes through retailers including supermarkets, and find new ways of boosting revenue without relying on tobacco excise taxes, leading public health researchers say.
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[Link] Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of QAnon followers gathered on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, believing they were going to see John F. Kennedy reappear. These people had traveled from all over the U.S.
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[Link] Malamud’s General Index: Research Gist, No Slap On The Wrist
Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com
Tired of that unsettling feeling you get from looking for paywalled papers on that one site that shall not be named? Yeah, us too. But now there’s an alternative that should feel a little less illegal: this new index of the world’s research papers over on the Internet Archive.
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[Link] Gene common in south Asian people doubles risk of Covid death, study finds
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scientists have identified a gene that doubles the risks of respiratory failure and death from Covid and could explain why people of south Asian heritage are more vulnerable to the disease.
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[Link] Separating Ideas From Words
Read: 6/11/2021 hackaday.com
We covered Malamud’s General Index this week, and Mike and I were talking about it on the podcast as well. It’s the boldest attempt we’ve seen so far to open up scientific knowledge for everyone, and not just the wealthiest companies and institutions.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] Get Reading: This Is How Books Can Impact Your Mental Health
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
We’ve long known that we can find comfort, solace and help in the pages of a book, and now research has confirmed that reading can be good for our mental health.
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[Link] The Great Cop Vax Mandate Apocalypse That Never Happened
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
When New York City announced that city workers—including cops–would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there was howling, threats, and promises that thousands would walk off the job or retire, turning the city into a dangerous, crime-ridden hellscape.
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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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[Link] ‘Squid Game’ Memecoin Soared to Record $2,800. Then It Fell to Zero.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The SQUID token peaked at a price of $2,861 on Monday, more than 300 times what it was worth when it began trading just a week ago, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
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[Link] ‘Yeah, we’re spooked’: AI starting to have big real-world impact, says expert
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A scientist who wrote a leading textbook on artificial intelligence has said experts are “spooked” by their own success in the field, comparing the advance of AI to the development of the atom bomb.
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[Link] Ancient Gold Burial Mask Found to Be Painted With Human Blood
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the 1990s, archaeologists uncovered an ancient and mysterious burial ritual in Peru: in the center of the chamber was a man, seated with his upside-down skeleton painted red along with the gold mask that adorned his detached skull.
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[Link] Scientists Finally Understand the Link Between Depression and Bad Sleep
Read: 28/10/2021 getpocket.com
Some brains can’t help but decide that three o’clock in the morning is the right time to ruminate on everything that’s going wrong.
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[Link] The restoration project giving oyster shells a new life
Read: 27/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Discarded oyster shells from restaurants, usually destined for landfill, are being recycled to create shellfish reefs in Queensland's Moreton Bay. It is the biggest community-driven reef restoration in Australia.
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[Link] Federation 'ill-equipped' to deal with 21st-century challenges as Australia grows 'vulnerable'
Read: 21/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
More than 250 stakeholders are behind a report, as part of the National Resilience Project (NRP), that makes recommendations on topics including energy security, climate change responses, global and regional security risks, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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[Link] Pig Kidney Successfully Transplanted From Hog to Human
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Doctors in New York City transplanted a kidney grown in a pig to a brain-dead woman in a major step forward for xenotransplantation, a process in which human organs are grown in animals and then transplanted into humans.
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[Link] Community groups in some states rehoming more greyhounds than industry programs, report suggests
Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Industry-led programs to rehome retired greyhounds helped just 2,000 dogs across Australia last year and were outperformed in the two biggest racing states by community-run services operating on threadbare resources, a new report claims.
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[Link] Turning Old Masks Into 3D Printer Filament
Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com
Disposable masks have been a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, but for all the good they’ve done, their disposal represents a monumental ecological challenge that has largely been ignored in favor of more immediate concerns.
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[Link] Kids and their computers: Several hours a day of screen time is OK, study suggests
Read: 17/10/2021 theconversation.com
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.
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[Link] The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana
Read: 17/10/2021 pro.europeana.eu
For the last couple of years librarians have talked about a 20th century black hole when trying to describe the effect that copyright has on making cultural heritage available online (it appears that the concept was first used publicly by Prof. James Boyle in a 2009 column for the Financial Times).
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[Link] What will happen after the sun dies? ‘Serendipitous’ discovery gives clues
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A Jupiter-sized planet has been found orbiting a white dwarf star in the Milky Way, providing clues as to what will happen in our solar system when the sun eventually dies.
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[Link] The vegan tax: Australians pay up to double for plant-based processed products
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Despite their growing ubiquity in Australian supermarkets, vegan products are still notably more expensive than their meat-based counterparts, according to new research by consumer advocacy group Choice.
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[Link] President of Brazil says it ‘makes no sense’ for him to be vaccinated
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 600,000 of his citizens have lost their lives to a Covid-19 outbreak he once pooh-poohed as a “little flu”, but Brazil’s science-denying president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced he will decline to be vaccinated, saying “it makes no sense” for him to do so.
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[Link] Natasha was told she was being manipulative. But she had a misunderstood disorder
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Natasha Swingler has lived with complex mental illness from a young age. It would take some time until she would learn of her diagnosis — borderline personality disorder, or BPD.
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[Link] Archivists Create a Searchable Index of 107 Million Science Articles
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The General Index is here to serve as your map to all human knowledge. Pulled from 107,233,728 journal articles, The General Index is a searchable collection of keywords and short sentences from published papers that can serve as a map to the paywalled domains of scientific knowledge.
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[Link] 'There's a gaping hole in our knowledge': the scientists studying why gamers invert their controls
Read: 12/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
It is one of the most contentious aspects of video game playing – a debate where opposing sides literally cannot see each other’s perspective.
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[Link] Facebook bans, sends cease-and-desist letter to developer of Unfollow Everything extension
Read: 12/10/2021 www.techspot.com
What just happened? Given the rough couple of weeks Facebook has been through, the company could definitely use some good PR right now, so here's exactly the opposite: it's been revealed that the social network has permanently banned the creator of a tool that unfollows all connections automatically
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[Link] Advocates say it's 'safer than smoking', but researchers find 'suite' of harmful chemicals in vaping products
Read: 11/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
They are flavoured, colourful and popular with teenagers, but new Australian research is discovering mounting evidence that vapes are also unsafe to use.
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[Link] As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder
Read: 23/9/2021 gizmodo.com
The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK.
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[Link] This Guy Is Cumming Out of His Ass
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
A rare complication from a catheter might have made this man ejaculate through his anus for two years. A man spent two years nutting out of his butthole before seeking help, in a case that perplexed and impressed researchers.
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[Link] Fact-checking works to undercut misinformation in many countries
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
In the wake of the flood of misinformation that's drowning the US, lots of organizations have turned to fact-checks. Many newsrooms set up dedicated fact-check groups, and some independent organizations were formed to provide the service.
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[Link] Nuclear fusion breakthrough: what do new results mean for the future of ‘infinite’ energy?
Read: 30/8/2021 theconversation.com
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has announced a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion, using powerful lasers to produce 1.3 megajoules of energy – about 3% of the energy contained in 1kg of crude oil.
[Link] A Quarter of Stars Like Our Sun Eat Their Planets, Study Finds
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s practically a childhood rite of passage to eat forbidden treats and then deny it when caught, even though the evidence is smeared all over your face.
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[Link] Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all
Read: 26/8/2021 www.sciencemag.org
The United Kingdom currently has one of the highest rates of open-access publication in the world, with many researchers posting their research papers on websites that make them publicly available for free.
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[Link] AI Can Guess Your Race Based On X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers opening the door to a wider array of artificially intelligent medical devices, new research suggests that medical AI systems can perpetuate racial bias in health care in ways humans don’t understand and can’t detect.
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[Link] IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity
Read: 8/8/2021 theconversation.com
IQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous people.
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[Link] Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply
Read: 8/8/2021 getpocket.com
By chopping up large numbers into smaller ones, researchers have rewritten a fundamental mathematical speed limit.
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[Link] Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Consuming alcohol increases the risk of getting more cancers than previously thought, according to a major study, which also found that drinking coffee protects against liver cancer.
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[Link] Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Eight members of the editorial board of a scientific journal have resigned after it published a slew of controversial papers that critics fear could be used for DNA profiling and persecution of ethnic minorities in China.
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[Link] Discrimination against Indigenous Australians has risen dramatically, survey finds
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Major discrimination against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people – like being unfairly denied a job or unfairly discouraged from continuing education – remains at elevated levels and is far higher than for the rest of the population, according to new data.
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[Link] Scientists Created a Quantum Crystal That Will Search for Dark Matter
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Scientists have created a quantum crystal with unparalleled sensitivity that could potentially be used to detect dark matter, a mysterious substance that makes up the vast majority of matter in our universe, reports a new study.
[Link] Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
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[Link] ‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Dr Christian Mayala and Dr Rodin Nzembuni Nduku sit together on a bench outside the Covid ward at Kinshasa’s Mama Yemo hospital.
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[Link] Turns Out Your DNA Sticks to MDMA Caps. That Could Help Police Track Down Drug Dealers.
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Forensic scientists have found a way to recover human DNA from the surface of pills and capsules – a breakthrough that they hope will help law enforcement agencies nail down criminals and expose illegal drug syndicates.
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[Link] Facebook Just Suspended the Accounts of Some of Its Biggest Critics
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook has made good on its threat to kick out a group of researchers who’ve been among the platform’s biggest critics.
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[Link] Amber Fossil Shows ‘Hell Ant’ Was Unlike Anything Alive Today
Read: 7/8/2021 www.smithsonianmag.com
Some 99 million years ago an ant unlike any alive today was in the midst of a savage scythe-jawed attack when dripping plant resin froze the insect, along with its prey, in a final predatory tableau.
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[Link] FTC Slams Facebook For Lying About Why it Shut Down Misinformation Research
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In a rare rebuke against a big U.S.
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[Link] Even Minor Volcanic Eruptions Could Cause Global Catastrophe, Study Finds
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Visions of volcanic disaster typically have massive, apocalyptic dimensions; think Pompeii or Dante's Peak. Now, however, University of Cambridge researchers have identified seven regions where even small, active volcanoes pose an underestimated risk to our global infrastructure.
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[Link] How 'Space Environmentalism' Could Prevent a Disaster In Orbit
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s been more than 60 years since humans launched the world’s first satellite, Sputnik, into outer space.
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[Link] Planted raises another $18M to expand its growing plant-based meat empire (and add schnitzel)
Read: 6/8/2021 techcrunch.com
Swiss alternative protein company Planted has raised its second CHF 17M (about $18.5M at present) round of the year, a “pre-B” fundraise that will help it continue its growth and debut new products. A U.S.
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[Link] South Africa issues world's first patent listing AI as inventor
Read: 6/8/2021 www.globallegalpost.com
South Africa has become the first country to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence as its inventor and the AI’s owner as the patent's owner.
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[Link] An aquarium accident may have given this crayfish the DNA to take over the world
Read: 5/8/2021 www.sciencemag.org
It sounds like a bad monster movie plot: A 10-legged mutant creature that reproduces asexually, escapes from confinement in Germany, and quietly begins a global invasion.
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[Link] Sperm-on-a-Postcard Breakthrough Opens Door to Massive 'Sperm Books'
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
It’s always a delight to receive a thoughtful letter in the mail, but scientists in Japan have added a whole new layer to the experience by sending each other postcards containing freeze-dried mouse sperm.
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[Link] Baby turtles ingest more plastic than adults due to how they eat, where they live
Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Baby turtles are more likely to consume plastic waste polluting the ocean than adults because of their eating habits, an international team of researchers has found.
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[Link] Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
An Australian mathematician has discovered what may be the oldest known example of applied geometry, on a 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet. Known as Si.427, the tablet bears a field plan measuring the boundaries of some land.
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[Link] Extroverted, self-centred men less likely to comply with Covid restrictions, study suggests
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
People who do not comply with Covid-19 pandemic restrictions are mostly male, more extroverted and more likely to put their own self-interests above those of others, suggests a new study of behaviours internationally.
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[Link] RNA breakthrough inspires high-yield, drought-tolerant rice, potatoes
Read: 28/7/2021 www.upi.com
July 22 (UPI) -- Thanks to a breakthrough in RNA manipulation, crop scientists have developed new potato and rice varieties with higher yields and increased drought tolerance.
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[Link] China is far from alone in taking advantage of Australian universities’ self-inflicted wounds
Read: 14/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
Outside the political sphere, much of Australia’s China panic centres on university campuses. This is hardly surprising, given the deep connections of the Australian higher-education sector to China.
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[Link] Linux kernel team rejects University of Minnesota researchers’ apology
Read: 27/4/2021 arstechnica.com
Last week, senior Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that all Linux patches coming from the University of Minnesota would be summarily rejected by default.