Novice - Znanost (angleščina)

Old-fashioned pessimism might actually help us fight climate change
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Negative thinking is unpopular but it could drive more realistic efforts to limit harm from global warming (New Scientist)
Why we need to change the way we think about exhaustion
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One in five adults worldwide is living with fatigue. The general advice is to “do more” - but this isn’t the only solution to our exhaustion epidemic, says Amy Arthur (New Scientist)
Skin-deep wounds can damage gut health in mice
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We know there is some connection between skin and gut health, but many assumed the gut was the one calling the shots. A new study suggests that the influence can go the other way (New Scientist)
Intel reveals world's biggest 'brain-inspired' neuromorphic computer
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A computer intended to mimic the way the brain processes and stores data could potentially improve the efficiency and capabilities of artificial intelligence models (New Scientist)
Turning plants blue with gene editing could make robot weeding easier
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Weeding robots can sometimes struggle to tell weeds from crops, but genetically modifying the plants we want to keep to make them brightly coloured would make the job easier, suggest a group of researchers (New Scientist)
A cicada double brood is coming – it's less rare than you think
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Up to 17 US states could be peppered with more than a trillion cicadas this spring, and though it has been a while since these two specific broods emerged at once, double broods are not that rare (New Scientist)
Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yields and lock up CO2
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Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks, according to a field study in Ireland (New Scientist)
Colonies of single-celled creatures could explain how embryos evolved
17. April 2024 (08:00)
We know little about how embryonic development in animals evolved from single-celled ancestors, but simple organisms with a multicellular life stage offer intriguing clues (New Scientist)
Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week
17. April 2024 (02:01)
A serendipitous lab accident revealed that hibernating bumblebee queens can make it through days of flooding, revealing that they are less vulnerable to extreme weather than previously thought (New Scientist)
Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here's how they move
16. April 2024 (18:00)
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system (New Scientist)