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Submission + - Scientists found the âoeholy grailâ gene that could one day help human (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: Scientists studying axolotls, zebrafish, and mice have uncovered a shared set of genes that may one day help humans regrow lost limbs. By identifying powerful âoeSP genesâ involved in regeneration, researchers discovered that disabling these genes stopped proper bone regrowth in salamanders and mice. They then used a gene therapy inspired by zebrafish biology to partially restore regeneration in mice, marking a major step toward future treatments that could replace damaged limbs with living tissue instead of prosthetics.

Submission + - How Laboratory Tests Fail in Application (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: Most studies showing that houseplants remove pollutants share a fundamental design feature: small, sealed chambers with artificially high concentrations of pollutants introduced as a single high dose. A plant is placed inside the chamber, concentrations of pollutants are measured over time and a removal rate is calculated. This design works well for comparing plants to each other. It works poorly for predicting what happens in your home.

The critical missing variable is what building scientists call the air exchange rate. This is how quickly outdoor air naturally replaces indoor air through gaps, walls and ventilation systems. In a real building, this constant dilution is already doing the heavy lifting on pollutant concentration. When a 2019 study modeled plant performance against real-world air exchange rates, it found you would need between ten and 1,000 plants per square meter to match what a building's passive ventilation already achieves.

So the scientifically defensible answer is: houseplants can remove some pollutants, but they are not an effective standalone air-cleaning solution for homes. That does not mean the earlier studies were "wrong." It means their results were often overextended into everyday settings where the physics of indoor air are very different.

Submission + - Your DNA may predict your future success more than your upbringing (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: A new twin study suggests your genes may play a bigger role in your future success than your upbringing. Researchers found that IQ, which is largely genetically influenced, strongly predicts education, career, and income. Even twins raised in the same household diverged based on genetic differences. The findings hint that life outcomes may be more hardwired than many people expect.

Submission + - Physicists just found a tiny flaw in time itself (sciencedaily.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: Physicists are rethinking one of quantum mechanicsâ(TM) biggest puzzles: how fuzzy possibilities become definite reality. New research suggests that spontaneous âoecollapseâ processesâ"possibly linked to gravityâ"could subtly blur time itself.

Submission + - NASA engineers create ingenious way to save homes from wildfires using noise (nypost.com)

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alternative_right writes: Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno.

In order for flames to burn it needs three things, oxygen, fuel, and heat. The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency sound waves that vibrate them, stopping the fire from growing.

âoeSound waves vibrate the oxygen faster than the fuel can use it, and break the chemical reaction of the flame,â Remington Hotchkis, Chief Commercialization Officer at Sonic Fire Tech told The Post.

Submission + - Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated (404media.co)

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alternative_right writes: Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchersâ"which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archiveâ"published their findings online in a paper titled âoeThe Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet.â The research also found that all this AI-generated text is making the web more cheery and less verbose.

Submission + - Your phone's next speed boost may come from magnetic chips (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or extended video streaming. Researchers at KAIST have discovered the principle of processing signals using the minute vibrations of magnets (spin waves) instead of electrons. This method significantly reduces heat generation and power consumption while enabling instantaneous frequency switching within the several GHz range. This breakthrough is expected to pave the way for smart devices with less heat and longer battery life, as well as ultra-low-power, high-speed computing.

Submission + - Finnish Air Force reprimands cadet pilots for penis-shaped flight patterns (yle.fi)

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alternative_right writes: Flight data shows several aircrafts taking off from Tikkakoski in JyvÃskylà at around 7.30am. The subsequent radar images indicate that at least four of the flights went on routes that resembled the shape of a penis.

The Air Force confirmed to IL at the time that the pilots involved were students on the reserve officer course, adding that the cadets would be subject to "disciplinary" consequences.

Submission + - Young hacker behind historic breach speaks out for 1st time (abcnews.com)

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alternative_right writes: On a recent Tuesday morning, as his parents were driving him to the federal prison in Connecticut where he'll be locked up for the foreseeable future, 20-year-old Matthew Lane sent a text message to ABC News.

"It's extremely sad, and I'm just scared," he wrote.

Barely a year earlier, while still a teenager, he helped launch what's been described as the biggest cyberattack in U.S. education history — a data breach that concerned authorities so much, it prompted briefings with senior government officials inside the White House Situation Room.

Submission + - Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out (404media.co)

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alternative_right writes: According to the audit from privacy search engine webXray, 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a userâ(TM)s browser even if they opted out of tracking. Each company disputed or took issue with the research, with Google saying it was based on a âoefundamental misunderstandingâ of how its product works.
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Journal Journal: High Colonic of Raging Honesty Realism: Do not equalize source data 2

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Speaking of UFOs and why the USG is suppressing reports...

We tend to assume that everyone else is as reasonable as we are.

Quit doing that shit.

We have a century of UFO reports, no clear photos we can authenticate, and no artifacts.

We do however know that Roswell was designed to protect the TR-1 and similar projects.

Comment Do not equalize source data (Score 1) 114

by alternative_right (#66093388) Attached to: Air Force Pushed Out UFO Investigator

We tend to assume that everyone else is as reasonable as we are.

Quit doing that shit.

We have a century of UFO reports, no clear photos we can authenticate, and no artifacts.

We do however know that Roswell was designed to protect the TR-1 and similar projects.

If alien civilizations exist, they either (1) have self-destructed like ours is currently doing or (2) have made it past that hump and do not want to contact us and receive our disease.

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