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Weird & Interesting science
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Researchers Find Evidence of a Coronavirus Epidemic 20,000 Years Ago
Quote:In a paper published in Current Biology, researchers analyzed the genomes of more than 2,500 modern humans from 26 worldwide populations, to better understand how humans have adapted to historical coronavirus outbreaks. The team, co-led by researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Adelaide, used computational methods to uncover genetic traces of adaptation to coronaviruses, the family of viruses responsible for three major outbreaks in the last 20 years, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rob Kelk

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Lucy's in the sky, with diamonds
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Extended life... for a price

(and you're an ant)

Ants with a particular tapeworm infestation live much longer (3x longer minimum) than normal.
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Ancient solar storm proves Vikings lived in Newfoundland by at least 1021 CE

Paper in Nature

Quote:"We did have a good idea that they would have been [in Newfoundland] from the late 10th century to the early 11th," [Birgitta Wallace, co-excavator of the L'Anse aux Meadows site] said. "But now they have a precise date — something we hardly ever get in archeology."
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Rob Kelk

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Something's rotten in the state of the internet, and archivists are worried

A look at "link rot" and its consequences.

Quote:Counterintuitively, government and university websites were among the least reliable, Stanton said. She believes that because the web addresses may not change, the content on those sites is rearranged, and the content of those pages changes.


(Why post this in this thread? Library Science is a science.)
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AP: Elephants without tusks evolve quickly due to ivory poachers
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2.5 billion year old ruby contains evidence of ancient life

Yes, "ruby". This is the first time a biological inclusion has been found in a coloured gemstone (as opposed to in something like amber).
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Milk may have been the fuel that enabled a major human migration
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Paging Dr. McCoy, your protoplaser is ready for pickup. Dr. McCoy!


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‎noli esse culus
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For the record, the previous launch attempt the Launch vehicle DID fall over, prompting a re-desgin of the vertical stabilty system.  I'd say they succeeded?
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to rock the sky?
Thats' every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry!
NO QUARTER!

No Quarter by Echo's Children
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Well, rocketry is rather like building a castle in a swamp. There's lots of falling over and burning, but if you stick with it you eventually get one that stays up.
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Linguistics is a science...

Most translated books by country
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Rob Kelk

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Not science so much as technology, and not modern technology but something rather older...

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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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Turn on the closed captioning for that one, Bob. It'll help.
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New Dinosaur species found in Chile with unique slashing tail
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-dinosaur-s...SbH7J4IxTs

Anton Petrov - Deepest earthquake ever found was thought to be impossible
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And here I thought placentas were strictly a mammal thing...

Pregnant male seahorses grow a placenta to nurture their young

The link here is to a pop-sci program's story - the paper was published in the journal ... Placenta.
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Rob Kelk

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China's Yutu rover spots 'mysterious hut' on far side of the Moon

Quote:If it is a hut … The Register suggests it could become hot property – if only because the 2.6-second round trip that light takes to travel between Earth and Moon probably makes it impossible to participate in Zoom meetings.





Just discovered this from August 9, 2014: Why Pretty Cure Magical Girls Are Never Attacked During A Transformation

Who knew that transformations were so energy-intensive?
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Rob Kelk

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For the first time a fusion reaction has generated more energy than absorbed by the fuel
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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Fusion Scientific Energy Equilibrium Status: Achieved.
Fusion Engineering Energy Equilibrium Status: Pending.
Fusion Economic Energy Equilibrium Status: Pending.
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Can't wait to see what nonsense the coal industry manufactures to try to sink fusion power.
-- Bob

I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber.  I have been 
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
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from 2016:
The science of having a "punchable face"

(Note that my ad and script blocking is set to "enuff dakka" so even after turning on enough for their images to show up I can't speak to how the site may rate on the scale of annoying to malwariffic for anyone else, especially since I've never heard of mic.com before and have no idea of any reputation they might have.)
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DARPA-Funded Researchers Accidentally Discover The World’s First Warp Bubble
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(12-08-2021, 01:49 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: DARPA-Funded Researchers Accidentally Discover The World’s First Warp Bubble

Or maybe not quite.
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UBC team creates stretchy, washable battery — and new possibilities for wearable tech

"Battery has survived over 36 wash cycles in the laundry so far"

Wiley has the research paper
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Ancient sheep poop suggests settlers were on the Faroe Islands 300 years before the Vikings

Pop-sci article at CBC

More scholarly article at Nature.
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