Daily Science Brief

An announcement explaining why I'm cancelling the podcast. If you want more information about it, I wrote a public blog post over on the Patreon page. Check it out.

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Penguins with dagger-like beaks, a collapsing Atlantic current, a brain map of 600,000 cells, and a bear skull that proves gladiators fought wild animals.

SOURCES

• Early penguins may have used dagger-like beaks to skewer prey | New Scientist
• Key Atlantic current could start collapsing as early as 2055, new study finds | Live Science
• Map of 600,000 brain cells rewrites the textbook on how the brain makes decisions | Live Science
• Skull of bear held captive to fight Roman gladiators discovered near ancient amphitheater in Serbia | Live Science

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Why scrolling on the toilet could be bad for your health, why we may have way less carbon storage underground than we thought, whether plant-based dog food really works, and how humans and AIs fall for the same persuasion tricks.

SOURCES

• Smartphone scrolling on the toilet could increase risk of haemorrhoids | New Scientist
• We may have 10 times less carbon storage capacity than we thought | New Scientist
• Plant-based dog foods provide almost all the nutrients pets need | New Scientist
• These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts | Ars Technica

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Blobs from failed planets hiding in Mars, a possible anti-aging drug, a surprising benefit of the hepatitis B vaccine, and recycling old cars into new ones.

SOURCES

Dozens of mysterious blobs discovered inside Mars may be the remnants of 'failed planets' | Live Science

Rapamycin may extend lifespans by protecting against DNA damage | New Scientist

Hepatitis B vaccine linked with a lower risk of developing diabetes | New Scientist

Can we finally recycle all of the metal in scrap cars? | New Scientist

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Volcanoes can lead to revolutions, onions powering solar panels, a spacecraft predicting solar storms, and computers you can throw in the wash.

SOURCES

• Volcanic eruptions may have helped spark the French Revolution | New Scientist
• Scientists turned to a red onion to improve solar cells — and it could make solar power more sustainable | Live Science
• Spacecraft used to forecast solar storm 15 hours before it hit Earth | New Scientist
• Scientists cram an entire computer into a single fiber of clothing — and you can even put it through your washing machine | Live Science
• Fibre computer enables more accurate recognition of human activity | EurekAlert! - AAAS

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Stress in pregnancy may prime babies for eczema. Pee tests could help eliminate cervical cancer. Spiders use fireflies as glowing bait. China builds a macaque-sized brain supercomputer.

SOURCES

• The foundations of eczema may start to be laid down in the womb | New Scientist
• Stress-Related Maternal Factors During Pregnancy in Relation to Childhood Eczema: Results From the LISA Study | JIACI
• Urine tests detect high-risk HPV as effectively as DIY vaginal swabs | New Scientist
• Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs | Live Science
• China's 'Darwin Monkey' is the world's largest brain-inspired supercomputer | Live Science

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A brain-inspired AI outsmarts ChatGPT, a new zap for your eyeballs could replace LASIK, middle age isn’t the low point it used to be, and CPR in space gets a boost from machines.

SOURCES

Scientists just developed a new AI modeled on the human brain — it's outperforming LLMs like ChatGPT at reasoning tasks | Live Science

Early test of new laser-free eye treatment shows promise | Live Science

We're no longer at our unhappiest during middle age | New Scientist

CPR in space could be made easier by chest compression machines | New Scientist

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Screwworms have invaded the US, AI is predicting hurricanes, U.S. power is slowly shifting to solar, and scientists crack the mystery of beer foam.

SOURCES

• US reports its first New World parasitic screwworm infection in decades | Live Science
• Google’s AI model just nailed the forecast for the strongest Atlantic storm this year | Ars Technica
• US‘s spike in electricity use is slowing down a bit | Ars Technica
• Electric Power Monthly | U.S. Energy Information Administration
• Scientists unlock secret to thick, stable beer foams | Ars Technica

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A pig lung transplanted into a human body, why half our farmed calories never reach our plates, microbes that shrug off 100,000 years of ice, and asteroid dust older than the solar system itself.

SOURCES

• First-ever pig-to-human lung transplant attempted in brain-dead person in China | Live Science
• Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates | New Scientist
• We are unlocking how frozen microbes stay alive for 100,000 years | New Scientist
• 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space | Live Science

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China drops data centers into the ocean, some people feel nothing from music, a Christian cross rewrites Gulf history, and our primate ancestors turn out to be cold-weather champs.

SOURCES

• China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool | Scientific American
• For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits | Ars Technica
• 'We never had concrete proof': Archaeologists discover Christian cross in Abu Dhabi, proving 1,400-year-old site was a monastery | Live Science
• Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics | The Conversation

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