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Warm Water Melts Weak Spots on Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’, Say Scientists

Scientists studying Antarctica's vast Thwaites Glacier - nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier - say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, worsening melting caused by rising temperatures, two papers published in Nature journal showed on Wednesday. Thwaites, which is roughly the size of Florida, represents more than half a meter…

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Warm water melts weak spots on Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier', say scientists

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Faye Flam: Another sign of inequality: minutes spent waiting

We’ve waited far too long for a scientific study of waiting. From queues to telephone holds to waiting rooms, delays are all around us and they’re miserable. And according to new research just published in Nature Human Behavior, lower income people and Black people of all income levels get stuck…

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How to Make a Mummy: Ancient Egyptian Workshop Has New Clues

For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of jars to figure out how they did it. Their study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, is based on a rare archaeological find: An embalming…

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Thomas Oxley Wants to Transform Our Brains’ Relationship With Computers Forever

Neuroscientist Thomas Oxley thinks Synchron’s brain implant, which is essentially a stent placed at the base of the motor cortex, is the Goldilocks of brain-computer interfaces. Here's how it works.

Inverse

Major publishers are banning ChatGPT from being listed as an academic author. What’s the big deal?

Unless you’ve spent your summer on a digital detox, you’ve probably heard of ChatGPT: the latest AI chatbot taking the world by storm.

The Conversation

Wildlife in Scotland faces battle to recover amid 'twin crises'

A NATURE agency has found that a range of Scottish wildlife are suffering the effects of a dual crisis.

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Greenland temperatures hottest in 1,000 years: Study

A new study of Greenland’s ice cores indicates that rising temperatures bear the ‘clear signature of global warming’.

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English doctors issue 'nature prescriptions' telling patients to spend time outdoors

Prescriptions are free and include a range of accessible, self-led activities

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Why I'm righting the wrongs of my early research and sharing my scientific data with local communities

“You know what’s wrong with scientific power? It’s a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.” That’s how filmmaker Michael Crichton put it in Jurassic Park nearly 30 years ago. The problem of scientific colonialism has not, however, gone away.

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The Guardian and biodiversity impact

The Guardian already has bold targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and is now examining its biodiversity impact

The Guardian - UK

Did physicists make a wormhole in the lab? Not quite, but a new experiment hints at the future of quantum simulations

Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.

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Velcro, bullet trains and robotic arms: how nature is the mother of invention

Many of the world’s most inspiring solutions have been created by scientists who stole their ideas from the natural world

The Guardian - UK

Robbie Arnott's eco-fiction uses myth and metaphor to depict a wounded world

Robbie Arnott’s third novel Limberlost follows two impressive earlier works. Richard Flanagan described Arnott’s first book, Flames (2018), as “strange and joyous”. Bram Presser, responding to The Rain Heron (2020), credits Arnott with “singlehandedly reinventing Australian literature”.

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Commentary: The key to unlocking the mysteries of COVID-19 is understanding immunity

Among the many medical puzzles about COVID-19 that continue to confound experts: Why does one spouse contract COVID-19 while in many cases the other does not? Why does the African continent have far fewer COVID-19 cases and deaths per capita than the other continents? Why does Singapore have more COVID-19…

Daily Mirror

NASA spots 'impossible' jet stream appearing to move faster than speed of light

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has caught a jet stream that appeared to travel at a speed greater than 99.7% of the speed of light but due to an illusion it appeared to be going seven times faster

Axios

Omicron boosters are now available for American kids. Many won't get them.

Uptake of this version of the booster will likely remain low for kids, unless there's a wintertime surge of new cases.

Bangkok Post

Research ethics on non-human subjects 'lacking'

In August, Springer Nature, the publisher of 3,000 academic journals, including the "Nature" portfolio of the world's most influential science journals, announced new ethics guidance for its editors, addressing the balance between academic freedom and the risk that publication of some research will harm specific groups of humans. The guidance…

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New 'ethics guidance' for top science journals aims to root out harmful research – but can it succeed?

The British journal Nature was founded in 1869 and is one of the world’s most influential and prestigious outlets for scientific research. Its publisher, Nature Portfolio (a subsidiary of the academic publishing giant Springer Nature), also publishes dozens of specialised journals under the Nature banner, covering almost every branch of…

The Hindu

Triple helix: the story of G.N. Ramachandran, a deprived genius

Ramachandran and his scholar Gopinath Kartha proposed the structure of collagen in two years (1954), which was the famous “triple helix”

The Guardian - UK

Tiny reptile unearthed in Scotland was ‘closely related to pterosaurs’

Researchers say Scleromochlus taylori belonged to species that evolved into giant flying reptiles

Inverse

Earth's microbiome could be the key to saving our planet

Researchers analyzed 80 scientific experiments to conclude how Earth’s microbiome diversity benefits the planet.

Inverse

Scientists have created a mechanical womb that can grow life in the lab

In a cluster of new studies from recent years, researchers have been able to grow life from animal stem cells in a petri dish. But it isn't yet clear when (and if) they'll do the same for humans.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Fish Fossil Catch from China Includes Oldest Teeth Ever

A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about a key period of evolution that’s been hard to flesh out because until now scientists haven't…

The Hindu

Using ‘spooky action at a distance’ to link atomic clocks

The researchers show frequencies of spatially separated clocks can be compared more precisely

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