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Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change

"Their findings, published April 15 in Nature Genetics, suggest that Coffea arabica developed more than 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural mating between two other coffee species. Arabica’s population waxed and waned throughout Earth’s heating and cooling periods over thousands of years, the study found, before eventually being cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen, and then spread over the globe."

buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024

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🇹🇷 Archaeologists find surprisingly well-preserved 8,600-year-old bread in Turkey

"The researchers concluded the bread was fermented after performing scanning electron microscope imaging. The analysis revealed air bubbles in the sample and traces of starch grains. They also found telltale chemicals known to be found in cereals and those that indicate fermentation."

zmescience.com/science/archaeo

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When the names won’t stick: the case of Galileo’s moons

biblonia.com/2024/04/17/when-t

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Why European Colonization Drove the Blue Antelope to Extinction

"The results of the study, which have now been published in "Current Biology", show that the species was probably adapted to a small population size and survived like this for thousands of years. However, this also made them susceptible to sudden impacts like hunting, which increased after European colonization of southern Africa."

uni-potsdam.de/en/pressrelease

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ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds

"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."

psypost.org/chatgpt-hallucinat

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Swapping 5G for 3G: Motivations, Experiences, and Implications of Contemporary Dumbphone Adoption

"We investigate the phenomenon of designer dumbphones, or newly developed dumbphones redesigned to meet the needs of dumbphone users, despite dumbphone-unfriendly current technical infrastructural."

research.aalto.fi/en/publicati

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‘Harvard Thinking’: Is AI friend or foe? Wrong question.

"In podcast, a lawyer, computer scientist, and statistician debate ethics of artificial intelligence".

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story

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The genesis of our cellular skeleton, image by image

"This unique approach, which combines the very high resolution of expansion microscopy and kinematic reconstruction, has enabled us to model the first 4D assembly of the human centriole."

unige.ch/medias/en/2024/la-gen

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The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’

"Perhaps the story to be written about near-death experiences is not that they prove consciousness is radically different from what we thought it was. Instead, it is that the process of dying is far stranger than scientists ever suspected."

theguardian.com/society/2024/a

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Unassuming physicist Professor Peter Higgs ahead of his time

"His concept sparked a 48-year hunt which culminated in July 2012 when a team from the European nuclear research facility at Cern in Geneva announced the detection of a particle that fitted the description of the elusive Higgs."

independent.co.uk/news/science

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The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change

"Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals"

theguardian.com/science/2024/a

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"Through the burning of fossil fuels, animal agriculture and deforestation, the world’s CO2 levels are now more than 50% higher than they were before the era of mass industrialization. Methane, which comes from sources including oil and gas drilling and livestock, has surged even more dramatically in recent years, Noaa said, and now has atmospheric concentrations 160% larger than in pre-industrial times." theguardian.com/environment/20 @climatechange @science

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"Portland Community College physics professor Toby Dittrich plans to perform a modern version of the Eddington experiment during the eclipse.

The original experiment was first done during the 1919 total solar eclipse by a team of scientists off the coast of Africa that tested Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity." youtu.be/dgIxPEP4xxs @science @physics @astronomy

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"Our overarching finding is that except for very high northern latitudes, ESMs project ongoing and future extreme temperature acceleration beyond background warming levels during the hottest months."

Huntingford, C., Cox, P.M., Ritchie, P.D.L. et al. Acceleration of daily land temperature extremes and correlations with surface energy fluxes. npj Clim Atmos Sci 7, 84 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41612-024-006 @climatechange @science

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"It’s no surprise that fertility is dropping in many countries, which demographers attribute to factors such as higher education levels among people who give birth, rising incomes, and expanded access to contraceptives. The United States is at 1.6 instead of the requisite 2.1, for example, and China and Taiwan are hovering at about 1.2 and one, respectively." doi.org/10.1126/science.ze0x33 @science

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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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