Will Global Warming Release a 'Zombie' Fungus?
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Today’s stories include Why Are UFOs Still Blurry? A Conversation With science-fiction author David Brin to Humans still have the genes for a full coat of body hair, and much more.
Forbes: Why Are UFOs Still Blurry? A Conversation With science-fiction author David Brin. Brin joined The London Futurists Podcast to talk about UFOs, aliens in asteroids, the difficulty of evolving intelligence, and how to survive the arrival of superintelligence. There are also many millions more cameras active on the earth than there were in the 1950s, and the cameras are far better, so why are the UFOs still blurry? Could the next public health crisis be caused by a 'zombie' fungus? reports Sky News.
Could the next public health crisis be caused by a 'zombie' fungus? reports Sky News. "If the world were to get slightly warmer, then there is reason to evolve," warns a prescient John Hannah, referencing their potential to infect and overpower a person's mind. Candida, ergot, cordyceps, aspergillus: any one of them could be capable of burrowing into our brains and taking control of not millions of us, but billions."
Are viruses alive? Why a seemingly simple biology question prompts heated debate among scientists--According to some criteria, viruses meet the basic definitions for "life"; according to others, they don't, reports Matthew Rozsa for Salon. "The question of whether a virus should be considered "alive" is one of the most fundamental in modern biology. Even today, scientists do not have a concrete answer — though they all have opinions."
A New View of the Most Explosive Moon in the Solar System --Recent strange activity around Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, confused and excited scientists, reports New York Times Science.
Newfound alien planet has nuclear fusion going in its core, reports Andrew Jones for Space.com--HD 206893 c is on the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or "failed star."
Humans still have the genes for a full coat of body hair--Research reveals these genes are not gone but muted, and the method used may pave the way for treating genetic conditions from baldness to cancer, reports Washington Post Science. "Roughly a million years ago human beings lost most of their body hair, a key moment in evolution that involved major changes to the same set of genes that determined whether many of our fellow mammals kept or lost their coatings of fur, according to new research."
New avian dinosaur discovery might rewrite the evolution of modern birds--The discovery suggests some modern birds, like emus and ostriches, evolved “backwards”, reports Cosmos.com. "The ancient bird, named Janavis finalidens, lived in the last days of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago."
10 amazing discoveries from Antarctica in 2022, reports Harry Baker for Live Science. A large number of scientific discoveries emerged from Earth's most southerly continent this year
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