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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.

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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…

Chicago Tribune

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

Daily Mirror

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.

Axios

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 Conversation

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 Hindu

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Inverse

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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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The Guardian - UK

Heat pumps should be key to Truss’s energy strategy, urges expert

Measures unlikely to include incentives for people to install devices, which cut bills and emissions

The Guardian - UK

Oldest human or just another ape? Row erupts over 7m-year-old fossil

Remains from Chad desert provoke rancorous dispute over whether species was earliest to walk upright

Salon

Don't touch that vulture

New Jersey officials are choosing to let rotting vultures lie. Experts are horrified at the risk of a new bird flu

The Independent UK

Carbon should cost 3.6 times more than US price, study says

Each ton of carbon dioxide that exits a smokestack or tailpipe is doing far more damage than what governments take into account, researchers conclude in a scientific paper published Thursday

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Who were the Denisovans?

Here are Denisovan facts about their discovery, where and when they lived and what we know about their appearance, genetics and culture.

The Independent UK

Scientists use stem cells to create synthetic mouse embryos

Scientists have created synthetic mouse embryos from stem cells without a dad's sperm or a mom's egg and womb

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Coffee geniuses use lasers to make cold brew in just three minutes

The method was outlined in a paper published in Nature and cuts what would otherwise be a 12- to 24-hour process down to just three minutes.

The Hindu

Earth Educators set to take lessons on Nature to children across India

20 people from across India are doing this through a fellowship constituted by the non-profit Youth Conservation Action Network

Salon

Boreal forests approaching tipping point

A new study warns that boreal forests are fast approaching a tipping point

The Conversation

The world's biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought

The eastern two thirds of Antarctica is covered by an ice sheet so large that if it melted the sea would rise by 52 metres. Most scientists had once thought this ice sheet was largely invulnerable to climate change, but not any more. And our new research, published in Nature,…

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Climate change may push North America’s forests to a “tipping point”

A trio of studies in the journal Nature highlights the serious threat global warming poses to boreal and deciduous forests in North America.

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