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Can the insect brain help us develop smarter, faster AI?

@NPR presents a 10-minute TED video on the topic from computational neuroscientist Frances Chance.

https://flip.it/.V-4Mg

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Insects #Entomology #Tech #Science #Computing

For April's eclipse, the disparity between "meh" and "OMG" may be driving across town.

Experts tell @NPR that eclipse watchers don't want to be "outside the so-called path of totality — that's the ribbon of land that stretches through 13 states, from Texas to Maine, that will see a total solar eclipse."

https://flip.it/K-.s5J

#Eclipse #SolarEclipse #Astronomy #Science

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University claim to have become the first to 3D print living human skin tissue onto open wounds on rats.

Futurism reports: "The researchers are hoping the work could lead to new developments in the field of reconstructive facial surgery and even human hair treatments."

https://flip.it/t8f7XQ

Here's the original paper in Bioactive Materials: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452199X23003493?via%3Dihub

#3DPrinting #Medicine #Health #Science #Innovation

Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway.

@electrek reports: "Excluding hurricanes, of course, Florida doesn’t have sufficient wind power, either onshore or offshore, that, say, states in the US Northeast or Texas have to sustain a wind power industry."

So what's up? https://flip.it/fL_w5J

#WindEnergy #Florida #Environment #ClimateChange #GreenEnergy #USPolitics

Meet the public health researchers trying to rein in America's gun violence crisis.

@NPR reports: "Gun violence is among America's most deadly and costly public health crises. But unlike other big killers — diseases like cancer and HIV or dangers like automobile crashes and cigarettes — sparse federal money goes to studying or preventing it."

https://flip.it/FIhjSr

#GunViolence #PublicHealth #Guns #GunControl #MassShooting

Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 million years ago, and may be oldest in Europe.

AP reports: "The chipped stones, deliberately fashioned from volcanic rock, were excavated from a quarry in Korolevo in the 1970s. Archaeologists used new methods to date the layers of sedimentary rock surrounding the tools to more than 1 million years old."

https://flip.it/2fuanE

#Archaeology #History #Science

Orca observed hunting and killing a great white shark by itself for the first time.

@popsci quotes a study author: “The astonishing predation, off the coast of Mossel Bay, South Africa, represents unprecedented behavior underscoring the exceptional proficiency of the killer whale."

https://flip.it/BHvIkb

#Orca #KillerWhale #Animals #Ocean #Sharks #Science

The mysterious "star dune" in the Sahara desert is on the move.

@popsci reports: "Morocco's Lala Lallia — one of the world's oldest known 'star dunes' — is slowly inching west."

https://flip.it/oggjI1

#Sahara #Desert #Morocco #Geology #Science

"Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb – an advance they believe could open up new areas of prenatal medicine."

AP reports on the research from the U.K.: https://flip.it/aGGXlq

#Science #Health #Pregnancy #Medicine

"Queen conchs in the Florida Keys are struggling to mate. Scientists are going to help them mingle."

@Vox reports: "The sex life of a conch is, for a snail, quite thrilling."

https://flip.it/wXdUvV

#Animals #Ocean #Florida #MarineBiology #Science

The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals.

@Smithsonianmag reports: "A Venetian merchant used the mathematical symbol while calculating the positions of planets between 1441 and 1450."

https://flip.it/RP1Mj8

#Math #Maths #Mathematics #History #Science

Our thirst for pineapple may be causing mutations in Costa Rica’s sloths.

Salon reports on the unusual genetic abnormalities seen in the animals, and what could be causing it: https://flip.it/Et8.ya

#Environment #Animals #Sloth #Agriculture #Pesticides #Pineapple #CostaRica

"New research suggests there’s less oxygen on the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa than thought — and that could affect what if any life might be lurking in the moon’s underground ocean."

AP reports: https://flip.it/gDWTlX

#Jupiter #Europa #Moon #Space #NASA #Life

Looking for a simple change to reduce your climate impact? Experts say: Swap out beef.

@BloombergGreen explains: https://flip.it/x_2gff

For similar stories, follow "Climate Change and You": @climate-change-and-you-science

#ClimateChange #Climate #Green #Environment #Food #Agriculture

How scientists are using facial-recognition AI to track humpback whales.

@NPR reports: https://flip.it/a.cPl8

#Whales #Animals #Ocean #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Four new astronauts head to the International Space Station for a 6-month stay.

AP reports "SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin."

https://flip.it/t-S9ig

#Space #NASA #ISS #Astronauts

If humans are indeed the most evolved species, why do so many of us suffer from developmental or genetic diseases? Phys.org explains why, unlike our ape ancestors, humans are still paying the price for losing our tails. https://flip.it/DX01o9
#Science #Humans #Biology #Evolution

Thanks to the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, we know what brought light to the universe at the dawn of time. Science Alert explains. https://flip.it/-cvRbW
#Science #Space #SpaceExploration #JWST #Hubble

The debate over whether to let people launch particles into the sky that would reflect sunlight back into space has been tabled after talks at the UN Environmental Assembly ended in a stalemate. @verge has more on the countries that tried and failed to establish tougher ground rules on solar geoengineering. https://flip.it/ugYSJr
#Science #ClimateChange #UN #Geoengineering

Do not mistake the shoebill for a stork. The menacing, prehistoric-looking bird feasts on baby crocodiles and kills its siblings. Live Science tells us more: https://flip.it/yL5Gdc
#Science #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon