The Science Thread

A place to post articles, tweets and discussions related to any branches of science/scientific discoveries

 

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill

 

Newly Discovered Glycosylated RNA Is All Over Cells: Study

 

AI lets man with paralysis type by just thinking about handwriting | New Scientist

 

Physicists Have Broken The Speed of Light With Pulses Inside Hot Plasma

 

Cancer-causing chemical found in 78 sunscreen products | Live Science

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01506-w

 

Edible Cholera vaccine made of powdered rice proves safe in phase 1 human trials

 

A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain

 

What we know about the mystery bird death crisis on the East Coast

 

Genetically engineered microbes convert waste plastic into vanillin

 

This thread is so much fun, I didn’t know a lot of this and I grew up all over Appalachia. I often found seashell and other what looked like sea creature fossils and I always assumed they were from lakes.

 

Tiny human brain grown in lab has eye-like structures that 'see' light | New Scientist

 

Idk why but that actually kind of freaks me out haha. What if it’s having thoughts and registering what it sees? It reminds me of the Metallica music video for One except instead of a body and head it’s just a blob of brain begging to be killed and end it’s suffering.

Im obviously overthinking this way too much

 

Fusion experiment breaks record, blasts out 10 quadrillion watts of power

 

More And More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving

 

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

 

A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom

Shout-out @Elder Lightning for this link

 

Been watching Lex for a year or two now, generally just watch any topics I think will be interesting, really enjoyed this one:

First hour is a good lead up but really got my attention at the hour mark. Really just the interplay between computation, physics, and neuroscience they get into is incredible. I really liked this guest.

 

https://m.dw.com/en/us-declares-23-...pecker/a-59349203?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00642-4

 

Spiders are much smarter than you think