Interesting Science Stuff

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https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2023/07/21/nasa-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-mc-gr-scn-contd-orig.cnn-business

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/world/worm-resurrected-frozen-siberian-permafrost-intl-scli-scn/index.html

A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost

 

[Bodhisattva]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/world/worm-resurrected-frozen-siberian-permafrost-intl-scli-scn/index.html

A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost

Meh. Worms. C'mon, science! I'm waiting for the woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers!

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/world/worm-resurrected-frozen-siberian-permafrost-intl-scli-scn/index.html

A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost

Just wait until ancient bacteria and virus come to life as the permafrost melts!

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/world/worm-resurrected-frozen-siberian-permafrost-intl-scli-scn/index.html

A worm has been revived after 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost

Pretty sure I've seen this movie at least once.

 

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Pretty sure I've seen this movie at least once.

You're infected aren't you??

 

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You're infected aren't you??

Can I come out now? I want to come out.

 

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Cancer sucks.

Science is cool.

 

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Just wait until ancient bacteria and virus come to life as the permafrost melts!

I feel like a Martian in "War of the Worlds".

 

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Researchers just revealed this 20-armed creature found off the coast of Antarctica

In ocean expeditions between 2008 and 2017, researchers explored the 'cryptic' biodiversity of Antarctica, discovering a 'strawberry feather star'.

www.usatoday.com

 

[BamaNation]

Not sure this is exactly the correct thread, but ... Ima put it here anyway because it is pretty amazing.

I took these pics last weekend during our visit to UCLA on an official campus / school of engineering visit with our daughter. It is the room and some original equipment and designs where the first internet message was sent from UCLA to Stanford Research Institute (SRI) by Dr. Leonard Kleinrock. If not for the work done there, TideFans.com might just be a paper newsletter

I actually teach about this in my intro to MIS course and show some videos of Kleinrock (linked above) and others talking about the birth of the internet. So, I was very excited when we were doing the tour, the guide opened the door and said "Only people doing this engineering tour get to see this room..." #geeksrule

 

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Wow, yeah, I'd say that fits in this thread nicely. What a cool experience to see that!

 

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Humans are so greedy.

Parrots Will Share Currency to Help Their Pals Purchase Food

Animals often share food, but these birds understand that metal rings can be exchanged for treats, and they share the rings with no promise of reward

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

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This is incredible - assuming you're familiar with the song it's obvious!

Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners

The audio sounds like it’s being played underwater. Still, it’s a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can’t speak.

www.nytimes.com

 

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MIND ·ALZHEIMER'S
People with Alzheimer’s disease tend to be deficient in these 5 nutrients that ‘help keep brains in top condition at all ages,’ researchers say
BYERIN PRATER
August 16, 2023 at 2:08 PM CDT
Fortune

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/australia/australia-parasitic-worm-brain-scn-intl-hnk/index.html

‘Still alive and wriggling:’ Doctors remove 3-inch parasitic worm from woman’s brain in world first


When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm that wriggled between her forceps.

“I’ve only come across worms using my not-so-good gardening skills … I find them terrifying and this is not something I deal with at all,” Bandi told CNN of the world’s first discovery of a live worm inside a human brain.

The finding unleashed a mad scramble to find out what exactly the parasite was, Canberra Hospital infectious disease expert Sanjaya Senanayake told CNN.



One colleague in the hospital lab was able to reach an animal parasitology expert at a governmental scientific research agency just 20 minutes away – and found their unexpected answer.

“We were able to send the live wiggling worm to him, and he was able to look at it and immediately identify it,” Senanayake said.

Molecular tests confirmed it was Ophidascaris robertsi, a roundworm usually found in pythons, according to a press release from the Australian National University and the Canberra Hospital.

“To our knowledge, this is also the first case to involve the brain of any mammalian species, human or otherwise,” said Senanayake, who is also a professor at Australian National University.

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This case in Australia is entirely different from recent reports of people developing painful headaches with tapeworm larvae found in their brain.

That condition is known as neurocysticercosis, which can cause neurological symptoms when larval cysts develop in the brain.

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