In this week's very existential selection of the best in science news from science newsmakers, explore the first life on land, as revealed by an ancient microbial fingerprint, and revel in chaos, fractals and complexity as Hannah Pell explores the science behind uncertainty. ScienceSeeker editors' favourite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise also cover many other important and exciting topics. Why not have a read, inform yourself, and indulge your scientific curiosity?
- Life on Venus? Breakthrough initiatives fund study of possible biosignature by Mike Wall for Scientific American.
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| “The next step is to do the basic science needed to thoroughly investigate the evidence and consider how best to confirm and expand on the possibility of life.” Credit: European Southern Observatory via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) |
- Are any stars visible in the night sky already dead? by Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang.
- Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ saved particle physics by Charlie Wood for WIRED.
- Chaos, fractals, and complexity: Big ideas in the Science of Roughness by Hannah Pell for Physics Central.
- New evidence for the first life on land comes from an ancient microbial fingerprint by Rebecca Dzombak for Massive Science.
- New artificial intelligence could save both elephant and human lives by Claudia Geib for Mongabay.com.
- Superbugs in the ocean: what beached whales can teach us about antibiotic resistance by Ma. Francesca Santiago for SciWorthy.
- New video of peccaries mobbing a jaguar shows predator-prey interactions go both ways by E. Melanie Watt for Massive Science.
- Your brain is plastic! by Neuwrite San Diego.
- Surprising insights into sleep’s purpose by Natalie Parletta for Cosmos magazine.
- Scientists discover brain cells that remember where escape routes are by Samuel J Walker for Massive Science.
- Connections between the gut and the brain: the key to reducing pain after chemotherapy? by Kate Secombe for OncoBites.
- Direct printing of wearable health sensors onto skin by Michael Berger for Nanowerk.
- Intestinal organoid built that looks and functions like real tissue by Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology.
- Inside the never-ending debate on the origins of viruses by Rafael Ambag at Flip Science.
- Superspreaders of SARS-CoV-2 by Vincent Racaniello at Virology Blog.
- Viruses that come to stay by Amber Dance for Knowable magazine.
- COVID-19 does not discriminate, but some get hit harder: Nutrition-related health disparities by Ru Liu for NutriBites.
- New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC) - translated from German by Stefan Rahmstorf at Real Climate.
- Ig Nobel Prizes reward research on helium-huffing alligators and knives made of feces by Rasha Aridi for Science.
- Supercooled water is two liquids in one, study shows by Sci-News.com.
- Podcast: #574 - State of the Heart: Science for the People by Rachelle Saunders and Haider Warraich for Science for the People.
- Podcast: Diffusion Science radio: Organo-metallic chemist by Ian Woolf and Liam Burt for Diffusion Science radio.
- Creating a package to infer species coexistence by Daniel Caetano for Methods.blog.
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