Cool Science

A new discovery upsets biological definition of life, from Anton Petrov:


Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about incredible discoveries that blur the definition of life
Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...com/articles/s41467-026-69238-x&v=ORwyjLN6hRY
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?p...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...f?pii=S0092-8674%2826%2900055-3&v=ORwyjLN6hRY
Additional videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGkV_k8IcQ0
• Incredible Discovery of an Entirely New Or...

• Strange Molecular Structures Inside Our Ce...

• Deadly Proteins Called Prions May Have Sta...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K-pMPFzGY
#biology #science #lifehttps://www.youtube.com/hashtag/life
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0:00 Defining life, bacteria vs viruses
1:50 Smallest organisms we think are alive
4:40 First blurred boundary
5:55 Viruses that are almost life
7:00 These viruses make their own proteins!
9:15 What this implies in regards to viruses
10:00 How did this happen?
10:45 Implications
12:00 Conclusions
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I was looking around on YouTube for some videos to do with the iconic 1952 Miller-Urey biochemistry experiment and I stumbled across this Anton Petrov video about then new discoveries (He uploaded it on November 2021) concerning it:


Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a very important discovery about the 1952 Origin of Life Miller-Urey Experiment
Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159...
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primord...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%...
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Supersonic flight

Avalanche

Rivers

Russian tornado


Lightning

Volcanoes

Quake

Storms

Plant life from space

Sea reptile fossils preserved

Ecology shake-up

Biology

Giant Dragonflies and skeeters

Mammals

Moby

I can hear Moby...in my lungs

Going ape

Crime

Plant stress research

Detector chip

Thermal mixing--stirring faster is bad?

gas detection

Dust storms and disaster research

Dumbing down

History

Tsunami

Osmium
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KJz8Y_Gt68c&pp=ygURVGhlIGNoZW1pc3QgY29kZXg%3D


momentum

New imaging technique and more

Aviation rad exposure
 
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The oldest unsolved genetics case in humans, why left-handedness exists:


Half a million years ago, prehistoric humans were already using their left hands to craft stone tools and paint cave walls. Fast forward to the modern day, and that percentage hasn't budged. Despite centuries of being labeled "sinister" or having their hands tied in classrooms, 10 percent of the population remains left-handed. This isn't just a biological quirk; it is a high-precision evolutionary strategy that has survived every attempt at cultural suppression.​
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In this video, we open the oldest unsolved case in human genetics. Why does natural selection maintain a trait that seemingly offers no survival advantage? Why do identical twins with the exact same DNA differ in handedness 75 percent of the time? From the "Combat Advantage" theory to a unique cognitive architecture that produces world leaders and elite architects, we explore why being a minority is actually a high-precision evolutionary design.​
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Timestamps:
00:00 - The 10% Constant: A 500,000-Year Record
01:08 - The History of Suppression: "Sinister" and "Gauche"
02:17 - The Birth Trauma Myth: A 40-Year False Confession
03:11 - The Twin Paradox: Why Identical Genomes Don't Match
04:38 - The Breakthrough: Frequency-Dependent Selection (Faurie & Raymond)
05:08 - The Combat Advantage: Why Rarity is the Mechanism
07:15 - Brain Architecture: Bilateral Language and Spatial Genius
08:30 - The Elite Left-Hander: Presidents, Architects, and Artists
09:54 - The 1.7 Million Person Study: What the DNA Still Can’t Tell Us
11:39 - Conclusion: You are a Deliberate Strategy, Not an Accident

Scientific and Historical Sources:
  • Nature (2005): Faurie and Raymond, "Handedness, homicide and negative frequency dependent selection in aceramic societies."
  • Nature Genetics (2021): Cuellar-Partida et al., "Genome-wide association study identifies novel loci for self-reported handedness in 1.7 million individuals."
  • Science (1970s/80s): Historical twin studies regarding handedness concordance and discordance.
  • Brain Structure and Function: Multiple studies on white matter architecture and bilateral language processing in left dominant individuals.
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Making a Yooperlite Sphere

To get at the instruction audio, click on the link to view it on YouTube and click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner. Scroll down to Audio Track and click on any language and use your up and down arrows to scroll to "Klingon" and click Enter. This is a pc keyboard workaround because selecting and mouse clicking just reverts back to the original language.

View: https://youtube.com/shorts/I87xXqkbXMA?si=tpJgDCLuQT3wJjzE
 
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"Dark Points" confirmed to be FTL

Just the negative of a marquee sign pattern, but zeros not ones, I suppose....they are called vortices.

laser tornado

recent twisters
https://twitter.com/x/status/2036766848423690746
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Severe Weather 3/9 - 3/12

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Flipping cars
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Enhanced Fujita Ratings Debate Thread

Almost certainly the most severe Appalachian forest damage since Moshannon back in '85. Hypothetically, there's got to be a scientific way to pull EF5 wind estimates from extreme tree damage, hasn't there? I'm not saying this IS EF5 (200+) but it could be. Of course most posters here believe...
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Ocean transport of energy

Microscopy

Liquids can fracture

Mini atmosphere

Antarctic research

Evolution

Warrior women

Scandinavian history
View: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/1HW47sapzw8


Second sphinx found?
www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Researchers allegedly find 'second Sphinx' beneath the Giza Plateau

Italian researchers claim to have discovered evidence of a second Sphinx and 'megastructures' beneath the ground.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Amazing sculptures
www.thisiscolossal.com

Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds' Ethereal Sculptures

Carved marble and limestone reveal smooth, ornate interiors while highlighting the natural quality of the stone.
www.thisiscolossal.com www.thisiscolossal.com
 
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Gold

Volcanism

climate

Hurricanes

Floods

Into the Vortex

Scanner

Tree-lapse video

Coffee and fungi

Biological arms race

Sociology

Batter up

Systems

Chemistry

New clock

Archeology

Beyond comprehension

Deploy!
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5NJXxAC9c&pp=ygUUQXByaWwgMjAyNiB0b3JuYWRvZXM%3D
 
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Do single-cells and complex molecules have memories, from Anton Petrov:


Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about incredible discoveries about learning
Links:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64...
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?p...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...f?pii=S0960-9822%2824%2901523-9&v=aQa0DowQ_oE
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.11...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...01/2025.09.10.675114v1.full.pdf&v=aQa0DowQ_oE
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4200...https://www.youtube.com/redirect?ev...com/articles/s42003-025-08411-2&v=aQa0DowQ_oE

Other videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spZwZLkMsYw
• Is Slime Mold Actually Intelligent? New St...

• Slime Mold Organism Maps the Cosmic Web an... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcVQ_eH7M50
#learning #memory #biology


0:00 The idea of learning is very surprising
1:20 Associative and non-associative learning
2:35 Single cells learn without a brain
5:50 Molecular learning? Genetic Networks
7:30 Implications for the medical field
9:10 Conclusions
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Content:
10. early Galaxy cluster defies the Rules
9. use of Poison Arrows are Older that we thought 01.45
8. missing star relocated after 130 years 02:55
7. Jellyfish Sleeping like humans 04:15
6. Artificial Lung safe patience 5:40
5. The Problem with Protons 06:40
4. T-Rex needed 40 years to get adult 07:30
3. Proto writing of Humans is far older 08:50
2. The Genome of wooly Rhino 10:45
1. and then there is New problem with Standard Model 12:00
 
An interesting video from New Scientist concerning how prime-numbers may not be random:


The seemingly random distribution of prime numbers has confounded some of the best mathematical minds for centuries. But the Riemann hypothesis, which relates to the zeros in a mathematical function, may hold the answer. It appears to show exactly where we can expect a prime number to appear, the only problem is, no one has yet been able to prove the hypothesis.​
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In this video we'll explore prime numbers, explain the enigmatic zeta function and show how this mathematical proof may reveal a deeper truth about the universe.
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For Hilbert's Infinate Hotel - • Mathematicians Discover a Strange New Infi... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzF23qGA4Pw
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00:00 Intro
01:59 Where the Pattern Breaks
05:08 The Line That Controls the Primes
13:58 A Proof at Last?
16:17 The Breakthrough
20:47 When Numbers Behaved Like Atoms
23:33 A Hidden Unity
26:17 Beyond the Millennium Prize
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A video about a 250 year long project reestablish Scotlands ancient Caledonian forest initiated in 1986 so 210 years to go:


Scotland Planted 2 Million Trees Where a Forest Died — What's Growing Back Doesn't Look Real​
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In 1986, Scotland’s ancient forest had been reduced to less than one percent of its original size. The Highlands looked natural… but they were actually the result of centuries of deforestation so complete that people forgot a forest had ever existed there.​
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One man proposed a two hundred fifty-year plan to bring it back, and just thirty five years later, something unexpected began to happen.​
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This video explores how the Caledonian Forest restoration project is rebuilding an entire ecosystem from near extinction. What started as a small volunteer effort planting trees by hand has evolved into one of the most ambitious rewilding projects in Europe. Over two million native trees have been planted, but the real story is what followed.​
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As grazing pressure was reduced and ecosystems began to recover, biodiversity returned faster than predicted. Underground fungal networks started reconnecting. Soil began storing more carbon. And in one of the most powerful signals of ecological recovery, golden eagles returned and successfully raised chicks in areas where they hadn’t nested for decades.​
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We break down the science behind this transformation: how ecosystems rebuild from the ground up, why long-term restoration requires centuries, and what happens when you stop preventing nature from healing itself.​
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• How Scotland’s native forest collapsed to just one percent of its original range
• The two hundred fifty-year plan to restore an entire ecosystem
• The return of golden eagles as a signal of ecological recovery
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This channel explores ecological restoration, rewilding, and the hidden systems bringing life back to ecosystems we once thought were lost.
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A video about a 250 year long project reestablish Scotlands ancient Caledonian forest initiated in 1986 so 210 years to go:

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Iceland's trying the same, but it's challenge. I suppose they'll be looking at the long term too.

www.nytimes.com

Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them? (Published 2017)

The country lost most of its trees long ago. Despite years of replanting, it isn’t making much progress.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

Icelandic joke:

What do you do if you're lost in a forest in Iceland?

Stand up.
 
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Instead of removing biomass from extant islands, you see the opposite here--islands made from...shells?

Amazing little fish

Mosasaurs

So flows the current

Resilience

Tornado rolls chaser
Dust devil actually

Chasers

Twinjet

Homemade rockets

Coffee

Miscellaneous
hackaday.com

Hackaday Podcast Episode 364: Clocks, Cameras, And Free Will

This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos met up over assorted beverages to bring you the latest news, mystery sound results show, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the …
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Geometry
 
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Magma chamber refilling
studyfinds.com

A Submarine Supervolcano Near Japan Appears To Be Refilling With Magma

A Japanese supervolcano that erupted 7,300 years ago appears to be recharging, and may share a pattern with Yellowstone.
studyfinds.com studyfinds.com
arstechnica.com

New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone

A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Tsunami threat?
www.dailymail.co.uk

Earthquakes strikes near Atlantic trench linked to US tsunami risk

More than 50 earthquakes have struck the Atlantic's deepest point in the last three days. This region is capable of a megaquake that experts say could send tsunamis to the US.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
www.dailymail.co.uk

Earthquakes strikes near Atlantic trench linked to US tsunami risk

More than 50 earthquakes have struck the Atlantic's deepest point in the last three days. This region is capable of a megaquake that experts say could send tsunamis to the US.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Downburst

2026-04-09 REPORTS: KS/NE

Nice day along and north of I-70 in Kansas with the Storm Chaser Coaching Founders' Tour group. We intercepted a developing storm near or northwest of Lincoln which eventually intensified into a severe-warned supercell. It remained quite high-based (as expected due to limited moisture), but had...
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Waterspouts
www.upi.com

Watch: Two possible waterspouts caught on camera in Boston - UPI.com

A Boston man taking a walk near Castle Island captured video when he spotted a pair of unusual vortexes off the coast that may have been waterspouts.
www.upi.com www.upi.com

Lightning

On maps and history

Polygraph
arstechnica.com

Polygraphs have major flaws. Are there better options?

Research proceeds on alternatives, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Old writings
thedebrief.org

Missing for 2000 Years, the "Lost" Verses from This Ancient Greek Philosopher's Writings Have Finally Been Discovered

A papyrologist at the University of Liège has made a remarkable discovery in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo.
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Causality
arstechnica.com

Causality optional? Testing the "indefinite causal order" superposition

A quantum experiment shows that we can formally test if the order of events matters.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Dragonflies
arstechnica.com

Explanation for why we don't see two-foot-long dragonflies anymore fails

Breathing capacity could have compensated for lower atmospheric oxygen.
arstechnica.com arstechnica.com

Orcas
www.livescience.com

'More questions than answers': Experts baffled by Alaskan mammal-eating orcas spotted near Seattle

Three orcas from Alaska surfaced in the waters between Washington state and Canada in March, an area where they've never been documented.
www.livescience.com www.livescience.com

Odd
www.dailymail.co.uk

Mysterious spikes in Earth's 'heartbeat' trigger surge of insomnia

A week-long spike in the planet's mysterious vibration is leading many to claim their sleep and dreams are being affected by the phenomenon.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
www.coasttocoastam.com

Watch: Odd UFO Filmed Floating Over Mexican City | Coast to Coast AM

A spellbound witness in Mexico captured footage of an odd white orb spotted floating across the sky over a city.
www.coasttocoastam.com www.coasttocoastam.com
www.coasttocoastam.com

Watch: Flying Saucer Filmed in Missouri? | Coast to Coast AM

A puzzled witness in Missouri captured footage of a rather sizeable disc-shaped object they spotted hovering in the sky in broad daylight.
www.coasttocoastam.com www.coasttocoastam.com
www.coasttocoastam.com

Watch: UFO Cluster Astonishes California Family | Coast to Coast AM

A California family cruising down the highway could not believe their eyes when they spotted a curious cluster of UFOs that appeared and subsequently vanished from the night sky.
www.coasttocoastam.com www.coasttocoastam.com
www.skytourlive.com

Skytour Livestream

Live Observation and Astronomy Tours of the Night Sky from the Arizona Desert and the Eastern USA.
www.skytourlive.com www.skytourlive.com

New matter
studyfinds.com

Scientists Predict A Completely New State Of Matter

Simulations reveal exotic hydrogen behavior under extreme pressure, with clues to how giant planets generate their magnetic fields.
studyfinds.com studyfinds.com
 
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Physics stories

The art of deception

The science of trust

Researching breakthroughs

Audiobooks

History

Geology
www.space.com

A satellite just captured images of a tsunami being born. Here's why that's a big deal

Scientists can now use SWOT to improve tsunami models.
www.space.com www.space.com

Math

Of teeth, thorns and pencils
We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape to mechanical wear.

Voice control ;)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1sij1tt/everyone_knows_helium_makes_your_voice_higher_but
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1sij1tt/everyone_knows_helium_makes_your_voice_higher_but/


Hurricanes
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Colorado State: Less Active Hurricane Season Ahead | Weather.com

Colorado State University says the combination of a strong El Niño and lukewarm temperatures will be less favorable for tropical storms and hurricanes.
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Tornadoes
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Severe Thunderstorms, Including Tornadoes, Ahead For Plains, Midwest | Weather.com

Typical for the active month of April, severe thunderstorms will plague parts of the Plains and Midwest for multiple days with hail, wind and tornadoes. Here's our latest forecast.
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Why Nighttime Tornadoes Are More Dangerous Than You Think | Weather.com

Nighttime tornadoes are especially dangerous because they often strike while people are asleep, making it difficult to see them coming unless lightning briefly illuminates the sky. With storms building throughout the day and peaking into the evening, meteorologist Rob Shackelford warns that...
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Nighttime Tornadoes Are More Likely To Be Deadly | Weather.com

Tornadoes that strike overnight are nearly twice as likely to be deadly as those during the day due to a combination of factors. Here's why.
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www.mikesmithenterprisesblog.com

There Is Nothing New About the Hypothesis Tornado Alley Has Moved East

After the Birmingham tornado Monday night, we've seen items like this , emphasizing that the South has a serious risk of strong tornadoes a...
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Massive Tornado Leaves Trail Of Damage In Its Wake | Weather.com

A massive tornado tore through eastern Illinois on Tuesday evening, churning through Kankakee County. The storm system brought heavy rain, strong winds and DVD-sized hail, prompting multiple watches and warnings to the area.
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Significant Tornado Events

I have the final boss of Before/After photos on hand, from Shawnee: Talk about a forgotten tornado.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2042344854999421254
https://twitter.com/x/status/2040868473530638752
https://twitter.com/x/status/2042715206753698035

Twister Zone

Now that's just Goofy

Patent Published for Disney Weather Warning System

With summer coming up hot and fast, Walt Disney World guests may soon receive customized environmental warnings within the My Disney Experience app based on their location and plans, according to a new patent. Disney Enterprises initially filed the patent with the vague title of “Predicting and...
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Fake Tornado Video on Instagram?

My sister sent me the attached video on Instagram showing one of the recent tornadoes (no exact date shown, although I believe around the end of March or first of April, 2026). I was immediately suspect of this "funnel" due to the continuous in-cloud lightning flashes which appeared as perfectly...
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Cladosporium sphaerospermum, found growing in the destroyed Chornobyl reactor, not only endures ionising radiation, it seems to like it. It might even conduct some sort of analogue of photosynthesis on gamma rays - 'radiosynthesis.'

www.sciencealert.com

Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life.
www.sciencealert.com www.sciencealert.com

From links in the article:

www.nature.com

Evaluating changes in growth and pigmentation of Cladosporium cladosporioides and Paecilomyces variotii in response to gamma and ultraviolet irradiation - Scientific Reports

Melanin-containing fungi (black molds) have the capacity to thrive under extreme environmental conditions such as the elevated radiation levels inside the former Chernobyl reactors. These fungi have been hypothesized to grow toward and use gamma radiation as an energy source, but the literature...
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journals.plos.org

Ionizing Radiation Changes the Electronic Properties of Melanin and Enhances the Growth of Melanized Fungi

BackgroundMelanin pigments are ubiquitous in nature. Melanized microorganisms are often the dominating species in certain extreme environments, such as soils contaminated with radionuclides, suggesting that the presence of melanin is beneficial in their life cycle. We hypothesized that ionizing...
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C. sphaerospermum excels, but other melanised fungi at least put up with radiation.

journals.plos.org

Adaptation of the Black Yeast Wangiella dermatitidis to Ionizing Radiation: Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms

Observations of enhanced growth of melanized fungi under low-dose ionizing radiation in the laboratory and in the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor suggest they have adapted the ability to survive or even benefit from exposure to ionizing radiation. However, the cellular and molecular mechanism...
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Thought has turned to how it might be used as living radiation shielding in space.

www.frontiersin.org

Frontiers | Cultivation of the Dematiaceous Fungus Cladosporium sphaerospermum Aboard the International Space Station and Effects of Ionizing Radiation

In Space, cosmic radiation is a strong, ubiquitous form of energy with a constant flux – the ability to harness it could greatly enhance the energy-autonomy ...
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www.universetoday.com

Fungi Were Able to Absorb Radiation on the ISS. Could Astronauts Grow Their own Radiation Shields in Space?

www.universetoday.com www.universetoday.com

Before we get hopes too high, they estimate that an effective fungal shield would have to be 2.3m thick and only a bit more Martian regolith would do the trick. It's early days yet though (some of those papers date back a few years) and maybe a way to refine and concentrate pure melanin shielding could be developed?

On a side note, 'mycotecture' is the use of fungus as a building material.

www.nasa.gov

NASA Advances Research to Grow Habitats in Space from Fungi - NASA

As NASA prepares for long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars for the benefit of all, a habitat-growing concept selected Wednesday by the agency could
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And really far off, in his 'Instrumentality of Mankind' series, Cordwainer Smith proposed oysters as living shielding for spacecraft.

 
Let there be light

Sonic ghost tunnels

Working...

Hidden structures... quasicrystals

Odd superconductivity

Hydrogen production

Ship wakes and fluids

Turbulence

A fourth kind of eruption

"That's nice, dear:"

Ant remora

The Police will just rip them off too:

Other biology

Invention

On Dark Matter tests and gravity

Oh...great...
 
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Simulating the present of a Tyrannosaurus Rex on modern Africa:


I Simulated A T.Rex In Modern Africa, Chaos Followed
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What happens when the most powerful land predator to ever exist is dropped into a world that was never built for it?
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In this video, we simulate a Tyrannosaurus rex surviving in modern Africa’s Serengeti ecosystem—a place filled with apex predators, brutal heat, and prey that has evolved for 66 million years without it.
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At first, you dominate.Your size, your bite, your presence—everything forces the ecosystem to react.
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But Africa doesn’t just let things exist.It tests them. It adapts. And eventually… it pushes back.From hyenas and lions to elephants, hippos, and disease, this is a deep, scientifically grounded breakdown of what would actually happen if a T. rex tried to survive in the modern world—and why being the apex predator might not be enough.This isn’t Jurassic Park.This is reality.And reality doesn’t care how powerful you are.
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Three way eruption

Ice

State of the Chase Season 2026

One of the things I noticed this year in Alaska was that for the first time in at least 5 -7 years, all of the Turnagain arm and most of the cook inlet was completely frozen. The first few months of 2026 Ice year were above 2025's and just slightly below the 10yr mean but that's come down a bit...
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Twist3r

4/13/26 KS Tornado Event Article

https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/tornadoes/tornadoes-kansas-concerns-changes-national-weather-service-rcna331826 I find this article promoting misleading/false information for several reasons. I am verbose below, but is not a 1-2-3 subject/issue. I'm sure Mike Smith and Randy Zipser will have...
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2026-04-13 REPORTS: KS/MO/MN

As there is a threat for the major tornado outbreak in the Upper Midwest, I thought I would start an informational thread of this evening's storms. Ottawa, Kansas: Damage is "heavy" in the south half of the city and east into Franklin County. It is bad enough that all schools are closed...
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2044225379703849153
https://twitter.com/x/status/2044213471512830165
https://www.reddit.com/r/weather/comments/1sojcr6/figured_i_would_share_picture_taken_today_in_se
https://twitter.com/x/status/2045250673239785810
weather.com

Powerful Tornado Carves Through Union Center, Wisconsin | Weather.com

A second day of severe thunderstorms brought a new round of tornadoes to Iowa, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. One powerful twister tore through the town of Union Center, flattening homes.
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Twilight Tornado In Minnesota As Huge Hail Rains Down | Weather.com

Storm chasers captured dramatic video as a tornado raced across open fields near Truman, Minnesota, on Monday evening. Hail as big as golf balls and baseballs blanketed the ground and created fog across parts of Martin and Cottonwood counties.
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Tornado Rips Through Rochester, Minnesota | Weather.com

A devastating tornado tore through the hillsides of Rochester, Minnesota, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Video footage captured at 1:05 PM shows multiple homes with roofs completely ripped off, partial second levels destroyed, and countless trees snapped like toothpicks across...
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Watch This Storm Chaser’s Tornado Footage From Illinois | Weather.com

A storm chaser caught this twister rip across the road in Rockton, Illinois, on Friday, leaving a trail of debris in its wake. Across the Midwest, homes and schools were hit by tornadoes, roofs were ripped off, roads were closed due to fallen trees and power lines were damaged — leaving many...
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Live Storm Chasing

Watch live feeds as storm chasers try to see if their target verifies. Tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, and floods - we've got it all and more, live on our site and available as video on demand.
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Spotter Network

www.spotternetwork.org www.spotternetwork.org

A beauty

2026-04-14 REPORTS: IA/WI/OK/IL

I chased with @Kholby Martin and @Ethan Schisler. We originally targeted the Dubuque, IA area but then noticed more robust convection was initiating near the boundary in the mid-afternoon southwest of Waterloo which is where we originally intercept the first tornado warned supercell. It...
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Tornado near airport
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Minnesota Tornado In Progress Seen Live On-Air | Weather.com

Cameras were rolling as a tornado spun up and struck areas near Rochester, Minnesota, live on The Weather Channel on Friday afternoon. The twister didn’t appear to be actively causing any significant damage at the time, but it was just the first confirmed tornado in a large-scale threat. This is...
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Sinlaku
https://x.com/weathermandan10/status/2045342075076444647

Flat optics, sonics, etc.

Crocodilian

History

Failure modes

Rubber

Math makes my eyes bug out too
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NASA's Global Reach Just Got Broader

NASA's Global Reach Just Got Broader
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Sociology

This week in science
 
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First Dawn has a video out about how prehistoric humans survived a solar super-flare:


This video examines Miyake Events, rare bursts of cosmic radiation caused by powerful solar activity. First identified through sudden increases in carbon-14 preserved in ancient tree rings, these events date back to at least 774–775 CE and 993–994 CE, with evidence suggesting even older occurrences in prehistory. Researchers in dendrochronology and astrophysics link them to extreme solar proton events or possible super flares far beyond anything recorded in modern times.​
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By analyzing isotopic anomalies in wood and ice cores, scientists can reconstruct how these radiation surges altered Earth’s atmosphere, potentially triggering ozone depletion and widespread auroral phenomena. Some hypotheses suggest that prehistoric humans may have witnessed intense atmospheric disturbances, though the exact environmental and biological impacts remain under investigation.​
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The physics behind these events reveals a sobering reality. Our Sun is capable of far greater violence than previously assumed, and modern infrastructure would be highly vulnerable. The next Miyake-scale event is not a question of if, but when.
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#MiyakeEvents #SolarStorms #AncientClimate #Prehistory #Astrophysics #CosmicRadiation #Dendrochronologyhttps://www.youtube.com/hashtag/dendrochronology
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00:00 Intro
00:43 The Wrong Danger
02:05 The Woman and the Cedar
03:48 How a Tree Remembers the Sun
06:22 The Burning Sky of 14,322 BCE10:21 The Sun Returns
13:55 The Carrington Baseline and What Comes After
18:41 The Invisible Catastrophe
20:47 The Tree Rings Don't Lie
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It looks like America's most toxic lake has turned into a valuable resource, from PBS Terra:


America’s most toxic lake may also be one of its most overlooked resources. At the Berkeley Pit Superfund Site, scientists are extracting clean energy materials from a century of mining waste.
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They might be using the wrong stuff

Standard Model questioned?

Hypertriton

DST

Math problems

Boid brain

magnetic maze

Light-energy transport

Invisible
 
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It looks like America's most toxic lake has turned into a valuable resource, from PBS Terra:

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Reminds me of a story of a dude who bought a parcel of land that had been used for disposal of immense quantities of some industrial base, like sodium bicarbonate (but don't quote me on that). Pennies on the dollar kind of price due to the "waste"

Whatever the industrial base was, it was critical for dealing with certain other industrial wastes, and so this dude has a billion tons of neutralizing agents for free.
 

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