The Science Thread

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Edit: Doing more research it's probably a Bolide.

Probably Ukraine again.

 

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Apparently Farts say more about your health than we all think.

Farts say more about your health than you think — now, scientists are listening

Scientists are developing an AI algorithm to detect diseases from the sounds of bathroom activities, which could tame future epidemics.

www.inverse.com

 

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Looks like the conversation is going down.

It's probably good for creatures of habit, but I don't want my WC announcing me I have cancer just because last night's party has changed my, erm, patterns.

PS: interesting idea though, I've always been in favour of analyzing changes to detect problems.

 

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Musk’s Neuralink company hopes to implant a computer in a human brain in six months.

Here’s what we know about Elon Musk’s Neuralink event

Musk has said he wanted to do tests in people in 2022, but he is also completely lousy at deadlines.

www.theverge.com

 

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Musk’s Neuralink company hopes to implant a computer in a human brain in six months.

Here’s what we know about Elon Musk’s Neuralink event

Musk has said he wanted to do tests in people in 2022, but he is also completely lousy at deadlines.

www.theverge.com

Scary and interesting, but 6 months? We'll see if that's not another of those games that will be delayed again.

I've worked on the design of an optical nerve stimulating device a few years ago. I understand why the FDA wants to regulate that; to give an idea, one of the challenging problems we faced was to make sure the sum of the current injected by the probes was always zero (within some tolerance), or it would deteriorate the cells. And it's not easy to control leakage currents in low-power devices, not even mentioning potential software bugs...

This is way beyond optical nerves though. It seems to be mostly about sampling signals for now and not injecting them, I suppose that's the ultimate goal. I'm not sure I would easily trust someone knowing a little of what could go wrong.

 

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This will undoubtedly turn into another conspiracy theory among the idiots over here.

 

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So apparently ants make milk. Wonder how many billion it would take to fill a gallon?

Ants make ‘milk’? This new discovery took scientists by surprise

Researchers thought they knew ants intimately. Then they looked at the pupae.

www.nationalgeographic.com

 

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Might be of interest for some of you. About an asteroid that hit mars.

Asteroid strike triggered 250-metre mega-tsunami on Mars, scientists believe

Scientists believe a mega-tsunami was caused 3.4 billion years ago on Mars by an asteroid strike similar to the devastating blow that wiped out the dinosaurs.

news.sky.com

 

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Revolutionary gene therapy offers hope for untreatable cancers

UK teenager is first person in the world to receive ‘base-edited’ cells that could transform cancer medicine

www.theguardian.com

 

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Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers​

The advancement by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be built on to further develop fusion energy research.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/science/nuclear-fusion-energy-breakthrough.html

 

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Another theory on Alien life and why we haven't come in contact yet.

Aliens haven't contacted Earth because there's no sign of intelligence here, new answer to the Fermi paradox suggests

A new paper claims that intelligent aliens would only be interested in contacting the most technologically advanced planets, and Earth doesn't make the cut.

www.livescience.com

 

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Want to see how plants breathe? Well a few scientists did as well.

Watch plants ‘breathing’ in magnified view with incredible detail

It’s breathtaking footage.

nypost.com

 

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I'm even more impressed by their suggestion system, beats Youtube:

 

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I'm even more impressed by their suggestion system, beats Youtube:

Meh this was the only article on the topic the rest were just the video.

 

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Shock wave from sun opened up a crack in Earth's magnetic field.

Mysterious shock wave from the sun opens up a crack in Earth’s magnetic field

The storm is classed as a G1 storm, so is expected to be fairly mild.

www.livescience.com

 

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The Goat Problem - Numberphile​

 

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So we as a species are apparently getting dumber.

There Is An Overwhelming Evidence That We Are Getting Dumber

Yet, we don’t really talk about it.

medium.com

We’re Getting Stupider, According to the Science

The science says the world is getting stupider, literally. How can that be? Aren’t we evolving and progressing forward?

www.mikegastin.com

 

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So we as a species are apparently getting dumber.

There Is An Overwhelming Evidence That We Are Getting Dumber

Yet, we don’t really talk about it.

medium.com

We’re Getting Stupider, According to the Science

The science says the world is getting stupider, literally. How can that be? Aren’t we evolving and progressing forward?

www.mikegastin.com

The Flynn effect is well known among intelligence researchers. As far as I know, there's only speculation why people's results decreased the last decades.

I've read similar speculations as the second article, but also that the IQ-tests are too limited compared to how much is involved in actual problem solving and actually only measure classic academic intelligence the way we used to train it, or that it's simply a regression to the mean (that previous results were too high due to random chance).

 

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Your guess is as good as mine but hey it's happening regardless of opinion.

 

[SveNitoR]

Your guess is as good as mine but hey it's happening regardless of opinion.

Probably, yes. Unless it's a statistical anomaly (which is unlikely since it has been replicated many times in many different countries).