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Should Scientists Use "Race" as a Proxy for Genetics?

Nature, last month (paywall): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon require [based on new federal legislation] researchers and companies seeking approval for late-stage clinical trials to submit a plan for ensuring diversity among trial participants…. The diversity requirement arrives in the wake of a 2022 report from…

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Melbourne scientists find enzyme that can make electricity out of tiny amounts of hydrogen

Scientists have isolated an enzyme from soil bacteria that can convert air into electricity, which they say could be developed into a renewable power source for small devices.

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Fossils thought to be ancient marine creatures may be seaweed, study suggests

New twist in debate over whether bryozoans cropped up during Cambrian explosion or later

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Smoke from Australian bushfires depleted ozone layer by up to 5% in 2020, study finds

Lead researcher says destruction was similar to process of Antarctic ozone hole forming each spring ‘but at much warmer temperatures’

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We thought the first hunter-gatherers in Europe went missing during the last ice age. Now, ancient DNA analysis says otherwise

Hunter-gatherers took shelter from the ice age in Southwestern Europe, but were replaced on the Italian Peninsula according to two new studies, published in Nature and Nature Ecology Evolution today.

The Conversation

Phytoplankton Blooms See Two-Decade Surge along World’s Coastlines

Huge blooms of phytoplankton — microscopic algae floating on the ocean's surface — have become larger and more frequent along the world's coastlines, according to new research, bringing benefits to fisheries but also potentially causing harm. Between 2003 and 2020, coastal phytoplankton blooms increased by about 13% in extent, covering…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Satellites observe speed-up of glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula: Study

Glaciers along Antarctica's coastline are flowing faster in the summer because of a combination of melting snow and warmer ocean waters, say researchers. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Michael Hiltzik: Publishers and media watchdogs are struggling with an onslaught of AI-written content

After 17 years as the publisher of short science fiction and fantasy stories at Clarkesworld, the online and print magazine he founded in 2006, Neil Clarke had become adept at winnowing out the occasional plagiarism case from the hundreds of submissions he receives every month.

Los Angeles Times

The coming storm

Climate change is an invisible killer. A family that lived in a hill station in India, an area known for its colder climate, took their sick child to the hospital. Nobody thought of dengue until a diagnosis confirmed it. Warmer temperatures in India and elsewhere make conditions more favourable for…

Bangkok Post

Can Trees Actually Talk to Each Other? New Research Suggests an Alternative Idea

New research calls into question the scientific strength of evidence behind the connections between complex fungal networks and multiple trees.

Inverse

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

Reuters

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…

Tribune News Service

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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Inverse

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.

The Conversation

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 National (Scotland)

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.

Al Jazeera

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

The Conversation

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.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian and biodiversity impact

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

The Conversation

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.

The Times of India

Dr Henry Gee wins the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize

Dr Henry Gee won the 2022 Royal Society Science Book Prize for his book 'A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters'. Dr. Gee-- who is a paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and Nature editor-- was announced as the winner at an award ceremony at the…

The Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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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