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Milestone: Discovery of penicillin
Date: Sept. 28, 1928
Where: St Mary’s Hospital, London
Who: Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming
On Sept. 28, 1928, Alexander Fleming woke up to check on his experiments investigating bacterial…
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Mysterious Signature in Greenland’s Ice Might Not Be From Space After All : ScienceAlert
Buried deep in Greenland’s ice sheet lies a puzzling chemical signature that has sparked intense scientific debate.
A sharp spike in platinum concentrations, discovered in an ice core (a cylinder of ice drilled out of ice sheets and glaciers)…
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In a first, scientists observe short-range order in semiconductors
Inside the microchips powering your devices, atoms aren’t just randomly scattered. They follow a hidden order that can change how semiconductors behave.
A team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)…
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The accidental discovery that forged the Iron Age
Research from Cranfield University sheds new light onto the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, showing how experimentation with iron-rich rocks by copper smelters may have sparked the invention of iron.
The work reanalyzed…
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New Huntington’s Disease Therapy Slows Patients’ Disease by 75%
Huntington’s disease is a genetic disorder that is caused by an unusual number of repeats in the huntingtin gene; there make the gene too long, and lead to the production of a toxic protein in brain cells….
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Why “dry” oil wells aren’t really empty
A common problem with oil wells is that they can run dry even when sound-based measurements say there’s still oil there. A team from Penn State University used PSC’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer to add a time dimension to these seismic…
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Neanderthals may have taken planned “vacations” to the beach
The Algarve coast now offers one of the clearest windows into Neanderthal life on the Iberian Peninsula. Two new hominin track sites discovered on Portugal beaches change how we view Neanderthals’ relationship with coastlines.
Led by Carlos Neto…
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I Tested Desirex AI Chatbot for 1 Month
Desirex AI is pitched as an antidote to all the bland, over-filtered chatbots out there.
Instead of constant interruptions and “I can’t talk about that” messages, the app makes a point of giving you freedom.
It’s an uncensored chat app,…
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Largest Study of Its Kind Reveals The Genes Behind Dyslexia : ScienceAlert
A massive study involving genetic data from over 1.2 million people has identified over a dozen new gene regions associated with dyslexia.
“We have produced the largest genetic study of dyslexia to date,” write the study authors, led by…
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A Billion People Need Vision Care. What A New Bloomberg Effort Will Do
The new Vision Initiative, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will help extend Warby Parker’s Pupils Project, which includes providing vision screenings and eyeglasses to young students. (Photo: Courtesy of Warby Parker)
Courtesy of Warby…
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