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- Reduction in shipping pollution has increased global warming - Los Angeles Timeswww.latimes.com How did a sudden reduction in shipping pollution inadvertently stoke global warming?
A major shift in global shipping regulations intended to improve air quality may have temporarily — and inadvertently — set off a geoengineering reaction that is warming the planet, new research has found.
An interesting case where trying to make positive change resulted in an unintended consequence
- SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Findsfuturism.com SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds
SpaceX's growing Starlink megaconstellation could be hindering the Earth's ozone layer from healing itself, researchers find.
- Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealedwww.yahoo.com Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed
‘An astronaut could make it to Mars but they might need dialysis on the way back,’ scientist warns
Well that's a problem...
- Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retailhackaday.com Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail
Electric leaf blowers are already far quieter than their gas-powered peers, but they still aren’t the kind of thing you’d like to hear first-thing on a Saturday morning. Looking to impr…
- JWST And Hubble Agree on The Universe's Expansion, And It's a Major Problemwww.sciencealert.com JWST And Hubble Agree on The Universe's Expansion, And It's a Major Problem
New data confirms that variation in our Universe's expansion rate (or the Hubble 'tension') is not an error in measurement.
Whether it's 67 or 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec, we're moving pretty fast either way!
- NASA's Voyager 1 satellite is currently lost in deep space due to a critical memory errorwww.tomshardware.com NASA's Voyager 1 probe is malfunctioning in deep space due to a critical memory error
A bit was flipped or corrupted in the volatile memory of the Flight Data Subsystem used to control the Voyager 1
- First tetratomic supermolecules realized at nanokelvin temperaturesphys.org First tetratomic supermolecules realized at nanokelvin temperatures
A team of experimentalists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and theorists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has succeeded for the first time in populating and stabilizing a new type of molecule, so-called field-linked tetratomic molecules. These "supermolecules" are so frag...
I'm mostly sharing this because I just love how the title is a jumble of words to me lol
- NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopterwww.space.com NASA loses contact with Ingenuity Mars helicopter
The dropout occurred on Thursday (Jan. 18), during Ingenuity's 72nd Red Planet flight.
Edit: Yay they reestablished contact!
https://www.engadget.com/nasa-says-its-reestablished-contact-with-the-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-165728606.html
- NBC News: Peregrine, aiming to be first private lunar lander, burns up in Earth's atmospherewww.nbcnews.com Peregrine, aiming to be first private lunar lander, burns up in Earth's atmosphere
An early malfunction left the Peregrine lander with no way to reach the moon.
- New analysis raises doubts over autonomous lab’s materials ‘discoveries’ | Research | Chemistry Worldwww.chemistryworld.com New analysis raises doubts over autonomous lab’s materials ‘discoveries’
Experimental and computational issues flagged as researchers conclude that a fully automated lab failed to make new materials
- Seeing Blue at Night May Not Be What's Keeping You Up After All : ScienceAlertwww.sciencealert.com Seeing Blue at Night May Not Be What's Keeping You Up After All
As you ripped aside the curtains to bask in the beams of sunlight this morning, a domino effect of chemical reactions made sure your biology stayed in time with the endless loops of day and night.
- Scientists Grew 'Mini Brains' From Stem Cells. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes. : ScienceAlertwww.sciencealert.com Scientists Grew 'Mini Brains' From Stem Cells. Then, The Brains Sort-of Developed Eyes.
Mini brains grown in a lab from stem cells spontaneously developed rudimentary eye structures, scientists reported in a fascinating paper in 2021.
Well that's creepy! I wish I hadn't seen this before going to bed...
- LK-99 Is No Radical Superconductor After All, Scientists Confirm : ScienceAlertwww.sciencealert.com LK-99 Is No Radical Superconductor After All, Scientists Confirm
Ever since the spooky phenomenon of superconductivity was discovered in 1911, scientists have been searching for superconducting materials that work under practical conditions.
And that is that
- Honeybees Suffer Unnecessarily in Human-Made Hives, Study Finds : ScienceAlertwww.sciencealert.com Honeybees Suffer Unnecessarily in Human-Made Hives, Study Finds
Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows.
- Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Reveal : ScienceAlertwww.sciencealert.com Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Reveal
Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body's epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests.
"It's important to note that this study doesn't prove that cannabis directly causes these changes or causes health problems."
But it is interesting, if this is your wheelhouse
- Heaps of pharmaceuticals, toxic chemicals found in recycled plasticsnewatlas.com Heaps of pharmaceuticals, toxic chemicals found in recycled plastics
While the use of recycled plastics is normally considered a noble endeavor, a new study says it's time to think twice. In an analysis of the material from more than 10 different countries, hundreds of potentially harmful chemicals were uncovered.
Because of the range of compounds found, the researchers say that they believe recycled plastics are unfit for most uses and that they don't contribute to a circular material lifecycle.
- In world 1st, virus spotted attached to 2nd virus | Live Sciencewww.livescience.com In world 1st, virus spotted attached to 2nd virus
The interaction was captured using a specialized piece of kit called a transmission electron microscope.
bacteriophages, sounds like something from Star Trek
- Mimics human tissue, fights bacteria: New biomaterial hits the sweet spotwww.sciencedaily.com Mimics human tissue, fights bacteria: New biomaterial hits the sweet spot
A new lab-made substance mimics human tissue and could reduce or replace the use of animal-derived materials in biomedical research.
- Pseudogravity That Bends Light Just Like Real Gravity Created by Engineers in a Laboratory - The Debriefthedebrief.org Pseudogravity That Bends Light Just Like Real Gravity Created by Engineers in a Laboratory - The Debrief
A team of researchers working with photonic crystals say they have created pseudogravity in the lab that bends light like real gravity.
- Scientists Successfully Simulate Backward Time Travel with a 25% Chance of Actually Changing the Past - The Debriefthedebrief.org Scientists Successfully Simulate Backward Time Travel with a 25% Chance of Actually Changing the Past - The Debrief
Scientists say they have simulated backward time travel system with a 25% chance of successfully changing the past.
"We are not proposing a time travel machine, but rather a deep dive into the fundamentals of quantum mechanics”
- Not Science Fiction: Scientists Around the World Shocked by Self-Healing in Metalscitechdaily.com Not Science Fiction: Scientists Around the World Shocked by Self-Healing in Metal
Dr. Michael Demkowicz predicted self-healing in metal; this summer it was finally observed, shocking scientists around the world. A microscopic crack grew in a very small piece of platinum when placed under repetitive stretching. The experiment, designed to study fatigue crack growth, continued a
- It's Official: Scientists Confirm What's Inside The Moon : ScienceAlertwww.sciencealert.com It's Official: Scientists Confirm What's Inside The Moon
Well, the verdict is in.
AND IT'S CHEESE! 🧀 jk
Okay since none of you seem to have a sense of humor evidently, the discovery is the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron. This, researchers hope, will help settle a long debate about whether the Moon's inner heart is solid or molten, and lead to a more accurate understanding of the Moon's history – and, by extension, that of the Solar System.
- Scientists discover the highest energy gamma-rays ever from a pulsarphys.org Scientists discover the highest energy gamma-rays ever from a pulsar
Scientists using the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a dead star called a pulsar. The energy of these gamma rays clocked in at 20 tera-electronvolts, or about 10 trillion times the energy of visible light. This observation is hard to reconcile wi...
- Tragedy Strikes India's Moon Lander One Month After Making Historywww.giantfreakinrobot.com Tragedy Strikes India's Moon Lander One Month After Making History
After India made history with their moon lander, the ground-breaking lunar mission faces a new catastrophe.
- It's Official. No More Astronomy at Arecibo - Universe Todaywww.universetoday.com It's Official. No More Astronomy at Arecibo
Even though the National Science Foundation announced last year that it would not rebuild or replace the iconic Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico — which collapsed in 2020 – a glimmer of hope remained among supporters that the remaining astronomy infrastructure would be utilized in some way. ...
- Google’s AI protein folder IDs structure where none seemingly existedarstechnica.com Google’s AI protein folder IDs structure where none seemingly existed
Two intrinsically disordered proteins form a specific structure ID'ed by AlphaFold.
- Scientists Recovered That Golden "Orb" From the Bottom of the Oceanfuturism.com Scientists Recovered That Golden "Orb" From the Bottom of the Ocean and It Looks Different Now
During a recent mission mapping a habitat off the coast of Alaska, a submersible came across a golden egg. Experts can only guess what it is.
All our technology and scientific progress and we don't know what the hell this thing is lol
- New Study Reveals the Power of Railroads to Buffer Coal Plants from a Carbon Emissions Taxagnr.umd.edu New Study Reveals the Power of Railroads to Buffer Coal Plants from a Carbon Emissions Tax
A new study by University of Maryland Economist Louis Preonas provides empirical evidence that railroads are likely to cut transportation prices to prop up coal-fired plants if U.S. climate policies further disadvantage coal in favor of less carbon-intensive energy sources.
> For his study, Preonas used the drop in natural gas prices over the past decade as a natural experiment for understanding how market pressures effect the price of coal-fired power generation. By analyzing data on coal deliveries, rail carrier use of the U.S. rail network and hourly energy generation from power plants, Preonas showed that as competition from natural gas forced coal fired plants to reduce electricity prices, railroad companies reduced their coal transportation fees. By absorbing some of the cost difference between coal and natural gas, the railroads propped up the coal market to avoid losing business.
- If a Fly Lands in Your Drink, Should You Still Drink It?www.sciencealert.com If a Fly Lands in Your Drink, Should You Still Drink It?
You pour a chilled glass of your favourite sauvignon blanc and are about to take a sip when a fruit fly lands in it.
One of those little things I've always wondered. However this particular case only examines if the drink happens to be wine.
- Hemp helps to healwww.uni-jena.de Hemp helps to heal
International research team clarifies mode of action of cannabinoids in inflammatio
> CBD in particular proved to be highly effective and the team investigated it in more detail with regard to its mode of action. The researchers were able to determine that CBD activates the 15-lipoxygenase-1 enzyme, which triggers the production of inflammation-resolving messenger substances that subsequently cause the inflammation to subside. “CBD thus induces a switch in the affected cells, so to speak, which steers the inflammatory process from the promoting to the inhibiting side,” explains Dr Jordan. The researchers were also able to confirm these results, which were obtained in cell cultures, in animal experiments on mice.
- Discoveries on Memory Mechanisms Could Unlock New Therapies for Alzheimer’s and other Brain Diseasesnews.cuanschutz.edu Discoveries on Memory Mechanisms Could Unlock New Therapies for Alzheimer’s and other Brain Diseases
Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have made a `paradigm shifting’ discovery on the mechanisms required for learning and memory that could lead to new therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and potentially Down syndrome.
> "The implications are that a certain class of CaMKII activity inhibitors actually could be used chronically to treat brain conditions including Alzheimer's disease," said Bayer, senior author of the study. "This is super novel, as it has previously been thought that any CaMKII activity inhibitor would block synaptic plasticity that underlies learning and memory so their chronic use would be counter-indicated."
- Scientists unpick how lung cells induce immune response to influenza
> The team discovered that viral RNA and influenza viruses stimulate two different molecular pathways in which specific proteins set off chain reactions that result in two proteins called "gasdermin D" and "gasdermin E" being processed in such a way that they form membrane pores in the epithelial cells.
- New Study Reveals How Plants Pass Down Genetic Memoriesscitechdaily.com New Study Reveals How Plants Pass Down Genetic Memories
When organisms pass their genes on to future generations, they include more than the code spelled out in DNA. Some also pass along chemical markers that instruct cells how to use that code. The passage of these markers to future generations is known as epigenetic inheritance. It’s particularly commo
- The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Colliderphys.org The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider
Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging, as the probability that they will interact with o...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3989406
> The first observation of neutrinos at CERN's Large Hadron Collider::Neutrinos are tiny and neutrally charged particles accounted for by the Standard Model of particle physics. While they are estimated to be some of the most abundant particles in the universe, observing them has so far proved to be highly challenging, as the probability that they will interact with other matter is low.
- Spacecraft could shuttle astronauts and supplies to and from the moon on a regular basisphys.org Spacecraft could shuttle astronauts and supplies to and from the moon on a regular basis
Multiple space agencies plan to send astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts to the moon in the coming years, with the long-term goal of establishing a permanent human presence there. This includes the NASA-led Artemis Program, which aims to create a "sustained program of lunar exploration and develo...
- Shattering Conventional Wisdom – Surprising Discovery Could Transform the Future of Electrochemical Devicesscitechdaily.com Shattering Conventional Wisdom – Surprising Discovery Could Transform the Future of Electrochemical Devices
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unveiled a surprising discovery that holds the potential to reshape the landscape of electrochemical devices. This new insight opens the door for the creation of cutting-edge materials and paves the way for enhancements in sectors like energy storage
The movement of holes, which act as empty spaces for electrons to move into, can be surprisingly inefficient during low levels of charging, causing unexpected slowdowns.”
- New Research Reveals Why You Shouldn’t Add a Banana to Your Smoothiesscitechdaily.com New Research Reveals Why You Shouldn’t Add a Banana to Your Smoothies
New research helps maximize the health benefits of fruit smoothies. Smoothies offer a delicious and easy method to incorporate essential fruits and vegetables into your diet. But is a banana and blueberry smoothie the best combo? New research from the University of California, Davis, suggests that
The researchers found that those who drank the banana smoothie had 84% lower levels of flavanols in their bodies compared to the control.
- NASA is developing a supersonic jet with Boeing that will be able to do Mach 4luxurylaunches.com NASA is developing a supersonic jet with Boeing that will be so fast, that by the time you're halfway through watching 'Oppenheimer', it would have already flown you from New York to London - Luxurylaunches
NASA is developing a supersonic passenger aircraft that will reportedly have a top speed of Mach 4 (~3000mph), which will not make it twice as fast as the
NASA is developing a supersonic passenger aircraft that will reportedly have a top speed of Mach 4 (~3000mph), which will not make it twice as fast as the Concorde but also faster than the legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane that was designed with a top speed of Mach 3.2 (around 2500mph).