Interesting Science Stuff

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Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient

Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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[Ole Man Dan]

I love to hear him talk. It reminds me of things from long long ago.
The shame of it is they aren't considered to be the brighter minds.

 

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Woohoo!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-cause-fix-scn/index.html

For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos.

Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away, and at 46 years old, the probe has shown multiple quirks and signs of aging in recent years.

 

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The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding

Physicists call the dark energy that drives the universe “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years.

www.wired.com

 

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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20420188231222367?icid=int.sj-full-text.citing-articles.1

I am becoming a bit fascinated with the therapeutic potential of the GLP-1 agonist medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, etc;...) against a variety of diseases. Research indicates potential in treatment of not just type II diabetes, obesity, and heart disease and heart failure (lesser known approved uses) but also a host of other diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to Parkinson's to Crohn's and ulcerative colitis and others (like fatty liver).

The early science is there and growing and we can establish a link scientifically with all these disease processes and more, so this is not snake oil cure-all stuff.

 

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Scientists Discover 27,500 Asteroids in Old Telescope Images Using A.I.
While most of the team’s new finds are located in the main asteroid belt, about 100 are near-Earth asteroids that pass close to our planet’s orbit

Aaron Boorstein
Staff Contributor
May 6, 2024
Smithsonian Magazine