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Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters
act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bizarre-ecosystem-disco…

Bizarre Ecosystem Discovered More Than Two Miles beneath Arctic Ocean
Dynamic mounds made of methane at a depth of some 3,640 meters act like “frozen reefs” for a bizarre array of deep-sea creatures, new observations reveal

A scientifically important fMRI study of a deceased salmon won an IgNobel Prize a while back. It’s still important.
Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010

IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study

Ich denke, Karl Drais würde vor lauter Begeisterung eine Extrarunde auf seinem Schwarz-Rot-Gold angemalten Laufrad durch den Karlsruher Schlossgarten drehen.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-human-on-a-bicycle-i…

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year,
affecting some 74,000 participants
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/halted-nih-clinical-trials-li…

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants

from my link log —
The Euclid-Mullin sequence of prime numbers.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-curious-sequence-of-prime-numbers/
saved 2019-05-26

A Curious Sequence of Prime Numbers
Euclid’s proof of the infinitude of primes opens the door to some interesting questions

A languid spiral galaxy appears draped against deep space in a stunning new image from the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope.
Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale,
observing billions of galaxies stretching as far away as 10 billion light-years from Earth.
The effort could reveal how galaxies form and evolve and how the universe has expanded over its 13.8-billion-or-so-year history.

Sparkling Galaxy Merger Shines in New Euclid Space Telescope Image
The Euclid Space Telescope is decking the halls with boughs of starlight

#cryptography

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said.
The situation in Tehran is the result of “a perfect storm of climate change and corruption,” says Michael Rubin, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
“We no longer have a choice,” said Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian during a speech on Thursday.
Instead Iranian officials are considering moving the capital to…

Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame

Sickle cell disease, sleep disorders and lung cancer:
these are just a few of the medical issues that were under investigation in
at least 383 clinical trials that have had research grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health since February.
That’s about 1 in 30 of all the clinical trials
—tests of medical interventions in human volunteers
—funded by the federal agency,
which has a
$48-billion research budget,
according to a JAMA Inte…

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants