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"Life, as we know it, has been evolving for billions of years. It has evolved to process information and materials by zillions of nano-scale molecular “machines” all working in parallel, competing as well as backing each other up, maintaining themselves and the ecosystem supporting them. The total complexity of this machinery, also called the biosphere, is mindboggling. In DNA, one bit of information takes less than 50 atoms. Given the atomic nature of physical matter, every part in life’s machinery is as miniature as possible in principle. Can AI achieve such a complexity, robustness, and adaptability by alternative means and without DNA?" blog.oup.com/2024/04/is-humani @science

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"Today, by examining historical evidence found in Israel, Egypt and Jordan, then harnessing cutting-edge science, can historians finally manage to reveal the mysteries of Jesus's life?" youtu.be/mIk8MyVMLt0 @religion

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that we need 'negative leap seconds'.

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"For some people, their status was elevated still further by the widely publicized discovery in 2007 that some Neanderthals carried genes suggesting they had red hair and light skin. These ancient inhabitants of Europe and Asia became coded as white, and on social media some people began to claim Neanderthal ancestry as a mark of racial superiority." doi.org/10.1126/science.z6n7io @science @anthropology

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"Examining current temperature increases, it seemed to this observer that scientists have been underestimating for some time how quickly the situation is deteriorating." theguardian.com/news/2024/mar/ @science @climatechange @climatecrisis

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"Nobel prize-wining geneticist Sir Paul Nurse on the amazing breakthroughs that followed the discovery of DNA - and how it directly impacted his own family." youtu.be/yKvczF7PfII @science

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"In this paper we examine multiple discrete emotions people experience in reaction to climate change, and assess the strength of these emotions as predictors of support for different types of mitigation and adaptation policies."

Myers TA, Roser-Renouf C, Leiserowitz A, Maibach E (2024) Emotional signatures of climate policy support. PLOS Climate 3(3): e0000381. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0 @climatechange

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Seven Recommends So Far in 2024 scientificamerican.com/article @science @bookstodon

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"Astronomer Fred Hoyle supposedly coined the catchy term to ridicule the theory of the Universe’s origins — 75 years on, it’s time to set the record straight." doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-008 @science

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"Here we combine genetic evidence and palaeoecological models to infer the geographic location that acted as the Hub for our species during the early phases of colonisation of Eurasia."

Vallini, L., Zampieri, C., Shoaee, M.J. et al. The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. Nat Commun 15, 1882 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-461 @archaeodons @anthropology @biology @science

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"Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds" theguardian.com/society/2024/m @science

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"A record 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023. To find out what’s driving this trend, Ian Sample speaks to Ivan Oransky, whose organisation Retraction Watch has been monitoring the growing numbers of retractions for more than a decade," theguardian.com/science/audio/ @science @podcasts

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"Indeed, the rapid development of generative AI technologies may intensify technology’s influence on domains as varied as culture, business, politics, health and education. The risks posed are even more extreme—from increased market concentration to election fraud to even the demise of the human race." scientificamerican.com/article @science

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"We compare per capita ratios with an approach based on regression, a widely used statistical procedure that eliminates many of the problems with ratios and allows for straightforward data interpretation."

Kratochvíl Lukáš and Havlíček Jan. 2024 The fallacy of global comparisons based on per capita measures. R. Soc. Open Sci.11: 230832. 230832. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230832 @science

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"Ethnic groups are real, but are socially and culturally constructed. More often than not, these groups have not had continuity across time historically, linguistically, culturally, and of course biologically. However, people intuitively tend to essentialize these groups, and DNA often serves as the placeholders for this." blog.oup.com/2024/03/who-do-yo @science

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"Now a team of researchers have combined RNA sequencing and cutting edge imaging technology to map the heart in more detail than ever before." youtu.be/n-txHrQt1YM @science

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"The aim is to treat history as a “natural” science, using statistical methods, computational simulations and other tools adapted from evolutionary theory, physics and complexity science to understand why things happened the way that they did." theconversation.com/historys-c @histodon @histodons @science

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🇩🇪 "Our results reveal individual households, lasting several generations, that consisted of a high-status core family and unrelated low-status individuals; a social organization accompanied by patrilocality and female exogamy; and the stability of this system over 700 years."

Alissa Mittnik et al., Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe. Science 366, 731-734 (2019). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/science.aax621 @science @archaeodons

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"Our results show that presenting the success rate of previous raters works as an incentive to evaluate information more accurately, but that monetary bonuses provide the strongest increase in accuracy, and that only remuneration is associated with a greater use of external resources (e.g., search engines) that have been shown to meaningfully improve evaluation of new content."

Ronzani, P., Panizza, F., Morisseau, T., Mattavelli, S., & Martini, C. (2024). How different incentives reduce scientific misinformation online. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-131 @science @psychology

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"The FT’s climate editor Emiliya Mychasuk explains how great advances in data gathering and processing could help the world prepare for the worst of the more frequent weather extremes on the way." youtu.be/fag4ITTsnlk @science

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