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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…

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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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‘The Last of Us’ is right: we should be terrified of mutating fungi and superbugs

A new report from the CSIRO says humans have every reason to fear drug-resistant superbugs, which could kill 10 million people a year by 2050.

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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.

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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

WHO chief to 'push until we get the answer' on Covid origins

Geneva (AFP) - The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency's chief said Wednesday following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search.

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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’.

Wales Online

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.

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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

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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 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 Street

The Countries With the Highest Flood Risk

As much as 23% of the world's population is exposed to flooding, taking lives, threatening livelihoods, and causing massive economic damage.

AFP

Scorched Earth: Ukraine war takes heavy toll on climate too

Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - The Ukraine war has shown the heavy toll military conflict takes not just on people but also on the planet, say experts at the UN climate summit in Egypt.

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”.

Chicago Tribune

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

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