Brewed from old bread crusts, the world's oldest beer recipe is experiencing a revival. via BBC Earth realclearscience.com/2024/04/17/the…

'Two women who have shared a single grave... since their deaths roughly 6,000 years ago may have been forced to strangle themselves to death in the belief their sacrifice would bring prosperity to their agrarian community.' via ScienceAlert realclearscience.com/2024/04/17/str…

The new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs work wonders when you take them, but when you quit, almost all of the pounds return. via nature realclearscience.com/2024/04/17/wha…

The Viking Women With Intentionally Reshaped Skulls: 'Three skulls had been subjected to cranial modification to achieve an oblong shape.' via Atlas Obscura realclearscience.com/2024/04/17/the…

'In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?' by Ethan Siegel realclearscience.com/2024/04/17/doe…

The unseen cost of road-blocking protests: They undoubtedly result in deaths because ambulances can't reach victims or transport them to hospitals. via STAT realclearscience.com/2024/04/17/the…

Every time I write about how plastics are more sustainable than alternatives, I feel like I'm talking to myself.
The lies and deception of the anti-plastics, anti-industry groups are so feral, so relentless, that facts have little chance.
This is another one of those times...

Dragonfly is a go! Launching in July 2028 for Titan. Super excited for this.

science.nasa.gov/missions/drago…

'Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.' via WIRED realclearscience.com/2024/04/16/the…

'In 1908, J.M.E. McTaggart, an English philosopher, published a paper arguing that we might be able to work out the unreality of time just using logical thinking alone.' via The Conversation realclearscience.com/2024/04/16/how…

Apophis: 'In 2029 the asteroid once considered the most probable to strike the Earth will fly uncomfortably close to the planet’s surface.' via Cosmos - the Science of Everything realclearscience.com/2024/04/16/ast…

'A new study shows that Americans in midlife are lonelier than previous generations and counterparts in other countries. What can we do to address that?' via Greater Good realclearscience.com/2024/04/16/why…

'The time of physics is not real time. Time is not a mathematical abstraction, there is no line of time, and the present is not some indivisible zero-point on it.' via Institute of Art and Ideas realclearscience.com/2024/04/16/the…

'Feel like your muscles are finding it harder and harder to cope as you get older? Well, a new ‘atlas of ageing’ could explain why – and may even lead to treatments to prevent it.' via BBC Science Focus Magazine realclearscience.com/2024/04/16/atl…

The supplement industry uses three myths in their marketing to sell their mostly ineffective products. via The Conversation U.S. realclearscience.com/articles/2024/…

How a few billionaires skewed climate science: 'By focusing on the most extreme scenario as business-as-usual they guaranteed that the economic impacts of climate change that they projected into the future would be eye-poppingly large.' by The Honest Broker realclearscience.com/2024/04/15/how…

AI has defeated CAPTCHA. 'Research reported in July 2023 showed that most can solve CAPTCHA images with 96 per cent accuracy, compared to humans who range from 50–86 per cent.' via BBC Science Focus Magazine realclearscience.com/2024/04/15/how…

Graphene was hailed as a wonder material. Why hasn't it transformed the world yet? “Graphene is still a very promising material. The problem has been scaling up production. That is why it has not made the impact that was predicted.” via Guardian Science realclearscience.com/2024/04/15/whe…

Between the third quarters of 2022 and 2023, the price of toothpaste leapt 45%, a rise that the Council for Community and Economic Research called “extreme” and “perplexing,” even in these inflationary times. Do you need to use toothpaste? by Steven Ross Pomeroy realclearscience.com/2024/04/15/do_…

'The principle that everything looks the same everywhere is a fundamental pillar of the standard model of cosmology... But this week... leading cosmologists will convene... to ask the question: what if this basic assumption is wrong?' via Guardian Science realclearscience.com/2024/04/15/cos…