The Fusion Rocket That Could Dominate Interplanetary Travel. Next-gen space propulsion technology could be right around the corner.

https://medium.com/predict/the-fusion-rocket-that-could-dominate-interplanetary-travel-d4a8234c67cd 

Quantum Beauty. The whole is in every fractal. Each tear holds the world.

https://davidprice-26453.medium.com/quantum-beauty-fead70394dfc 

Are You Full-Moon Sleepless? The science behind the lunar effect on your slumber

https://elemental.medium.com/are-you-full-moon-sleepless-7d56e479af07 

Curiosity rover sends the most beautiful photo of Mars. The Red Planet looks like from a postcard

https://vstories.medium.com/curiosity-rover-sends-the-most-beautiful-photo-of-mars-the-red-planet-looks-like-from-a-postcard-eaaf344e886b 

Why “F = ma” is the most important equation in physics From high school through the professional ranks, physicists never tire of Newton’s 2nd Law. Ethan Siegel Ethan Siegel Follow Dec 8 · 11 min read If there’s one equation that people learn about physics — and no, not Einstein’s E = mc² — it’s Newton’s F = ma. Despite the fact that it’s been in widespread use for some ~350 years now, since Newton first put it forth…

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-f-ma-is-the-most-important-equation-in-physics-ebd9afb21e9d 

Taken Early, Aspirin Might Offer Protection Against Covid-19. Experts say low-dose aspirin might be an underutilized weapon in our battle with the coronavirus

https://elemental.medium.com/taken-early-aspirin-may-offer-protection-against-covid-19-6315f68dccd9 

The Weirdness of Water. For something that is odourless, transparent and tasteless, water is actually quite interesting. Across two shows, Hannah and Adam filter out some of the more surprising properties of the liquid that literally gives us life.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5jYDgMJyccGXnmgVCtD6xf8/the-weirdness-of-water 

Skin-worn sensor detects and measures nicotine in e-cig vapor

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/skin-worn-sensor-nicotine-electronic-cigarette-vapor/ 

Lab study shows vaccine booster vital for preventing Omicron infection

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/first-omicron-lab-data-antibody-pfizer-three-vaccine-doses-infection-protection/ 

CRISPR gene therapy, ultrasound and drugs team up against liver cancer

https://newatlas.com/medical/crispr-ultrasound-drugs-cancer/ 

Pressure-sensing seat may one day detect drunk drivers

https://newatlas.com/automotive/pressure-sensing-seat-drunk-drivers/ 

Roll-Royce's hybrid-electric propulsion system passes 1-MW milestone

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/roll-royces-hybrid-electric-propulsion-system-1-mw/ 

Hippo pools brimming with poo act as communal "probiotic shakes"

https://newatlas.com/biology/hippopotamus-pools-excrement-gut-microbiome/ 

Fader Stealth Drone. From Auto Flight Controls to Backflips, There's Nothing This Mini-Drone Can't Do

https://deals.newatlas.com/sales/fader-stealth-drone 

US begins production of its latest air-dropped nuclear munition

https://newatlas.com/military/usa-production-b61-12-air-dropped-nuclear-munition/ 

Grape seed compound shows anti-aging potential by taking out tired cells

https://newatlas.com/medical/grape-seed-compound-anti-aging-tired-cells/ 

Squirrel-cheeked liquid H2 airliner will take you anywhere in two hops

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/flyzero-liquid-hydrogen-clean-airliner/ 

eHang's pilotless eVTOL may be certified and operational within months

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/ehang-certification-autonomous/ 

Harvard team disables newly discovered hormone to reverse diabetes in mice

https://newatlas.com/medical/harvard-discovered-hormone-reverse-diabetes-mice/ 

A just-discovered galaxy structure named “Giant Arc” may change our understanding of the cosmos.

https://vstories.medium.com/a-just-discovered-galaxy-structure-named-giant-arc-may-change-our-understanding-of-the-cosmos-eceb970527f1 

The Most Famous Book No One Ever Read. How groupthink comes to the masses

https://elemental.medium.com/5-ways-psychedelics-may-affect-the-brain-9ef9fe620a8f 

SpinLaunch: Company hurls satellites into space using giant, spinning machine SpinLaunch's launcher, which is larger than the Statue of Liberty and works like the Olympic hammer-throw event, just came online in the New Mexico desert.

https://bigthink.com/the-future/spinlaunch-company-hurls-satellites-into-space-using-giant-spinning-machine/ 

New Documentary on The PCR Test Deception is Banned on YouTube – Share this Film with Skeptics

https://vaccineimpact.com/2021/new-documentary-on-the-pcr-test-deception-is-banned-on-youtube-share-this-film-with-skeptics/ 

Comet Leonard Can Be Seen From Earth

https://greenjihad.com/2021/12/08/comet-leonard-can-be-seen-from-earth/ 

First skull of Homo Naledi unearthed

https://www.science.org/content/article/first-child-s-skull-homo-naledi-unveiled 

This drone has legs: Watch a flying robot perch on branches, catch a tennis ball in midair. Foot design provides powerful, quick-action grip

https://www.science.org/content/article/drone-has-legs-watch-flying-robot-perch-branches-catch-tennis-ball-midair 

Ancient footprints suggest famed human ancestor ‘Lucy’ had company. Reanalysis of 3.6-million-year-old footprints suggest a second kind of hominin walked in Lucy’s neighborhood

https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-footprints-suggest-famed-human-ancestor-lucy-had-company 

‘It’s misinformation at worst.’ Weak health studies can do more harm than good, scientists say Others say small COVID-19 studies accumulate into a clear picture over time

https://www.science.org/content/article/it-s-misinformation-worst-weak-health-studies-can-do-more-harm-good-scientists-say 

Human geneticists curb use of the term ‘race’ in their papers. Field still struggles with how to accurately describe populations, study finds

https://www.science.org/content/article/human-geneticists-curb-use-term-race-their-papers 

Germany's trees are dying

https://www.science.org/content/article/germany-s-trees-are-dying-fierce-debate-has-broken-out-over-how-respond 

Gene editing produces all-male or all-female litters of mice CRISPR approach shows promise for curbing culling of lab animals, chicks

https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-editing-produces-all-male-or-all-female-litters-mice 

US Officials Says China’s Space Tech Developing at ‘Twice’ America’s Speed

https://flagandcross.com/us-officials-says-chinas-space-tech-developing-at-twice-americas-speed/ 

The Power of the Waves. Understanding how oceans move is key to understanding life on Earth.

https://nautil.us/issue/108/change/the-power-of-the-waves
 

Major study shows ZERO deaths from COVID among healthy kids. 'If you let your healthy child receive the mRNA Covid vaccine, you are insane'

https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/major-study-shows-zero-deaths-covid-among-healthy-kids/
 

Fossils of 400-million-year-old 'Excalibur worm' discovered in Australia.The ancient worm had a full suit of armor, and a hearty appetite for organic waste.

https://www.livescience.com/devonian-excalibur-worm-shuriken-worm-fossil 

Omicron variant may have evolved in rats, one theory says. There are several theories as to how the omicron variant evolved.

https://www.livescience.com/omicron-origin-theory-rodents 

Dark matter may spawn more of itself from ordinary matter, like a cosmic ice-9. Physicists propose an new exponential growth mechanism for dark matter creation.

https://www.livescience.com/dark-matter-multiplies-cosmic-ice-9? 

Giant 'phantom jellyfish' that eats with mouth-arms spotted off California coast. The giant sea monster traps its prey in 33 feet-long mouth-arms.

https://www.livescience.com/giant-phantom-jellyfish-spotted 

Scientists may have discovered a new kind of physics

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35917019/large-hadron-collider-new-physics/ 

A Plane Powered by Cooking Oil Just Flew Across the US

https://singularityhub.com/2021/12/03/a-plane-powered-by-cooking-oil-just-flew-across-the-us/

 

Did the Universe Start with a Bounce Instead of a Bang? A small group of physicists hoping to explain the origin of the cosmos are exploring theories other than the Big Bang.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/big-bounce/ 

China's Mysterious Hypersonic Weapon Can Stay in Orbit According to Space Force General...

https://www.tldm.org/news52/chinas-mysterious-hypersonic-weapon-can-stay-in-orbit-according-to-space-force-general.htm 

'Very weird' ankylosaur's tail looked like an Aztec war club. The beast looked like a cross between a stegosaur and an ankylosaur.

https://www.livescience.com/new-ankylosaur-dinosaur-chile 

An AI Finds Superbug-Killing Potential in Human Proteins A team scoured the human proteome for antimicrobial molecules and found thousands, plus a surprise about how animals evolved to fight infections.

https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-finds-superbug-killing-potential-in-human-proteins/ 

Here’s How Big The Largest Mountain In The Solar System Actually Is Hint: really, really big

https://grantpiperwriting.medium.com/heres-how-big-the-largest-mountain-in-the-solar-system-actually-is-dfb432073b48 

The Allegory of Applied Mathematics. You’re wrong. I’m wrong. Everyone’s wrong. But, more than that, we should strive to be wrong. Let me explain.

https://csferrie.medium.com/the-allegory-of-applied-mathematics-9d7c18ab621d 

What the hell are Baryon Acoustic Oscillations?

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-the-hell-are-baryon-acoustic-oscillations-cfee6d726538 

Mouse study shows microplastics infiltrate blood brain barrier

https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2021/12/mouse-study-shows-microplastics.html 

Starship engine 'crisis' poses possible bankruptcy risk for SpaceX, Elon Musk says: report. SpaceX "will need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster," Musk wrote in an email recently.

https://www.livescience.com/starship--raptor-engine-crisis-spacex-elon-musk 

Earth's earliest water may have come from solar wind and space rocks. Samples from an asteroid collected by a Japanese probe suggest that Earth's water may have come from the sun.

https://www.livescience.com/earth-water-may-have-come-from-space 

How they plan to kill BILLIONS with the common flu: Covid vaccines induce “AIDS” immune system failure, opening door to death via common flu strains

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-12-01-how-plan-to-kill-billions-with-the-common-flu-covid-vaccines-induce-aids-immune-system-failure-opening-door-to-death-via-common-flu-strains.html 

These flesh-eating centipedes hunt and eat baby birds alive. Here's why. This is the first time flesh-eating centipedes have been seen eating seabirds.

https://www.livescience.com/flesh-eating-centipedes-eat-baby-birds-alive.html 

Biggest eagle to ever live plunged headfirst into dead prey to eat the organs. Its name in the Māori language means "old glutton."

https://www.livescience.com/giant-extinct-eagle-ate-organs 

Cannibal toads eat so many of their young, they're speeding up evolution. Here's how the young are fighting back.

https://www.livescience.com/cane-toads-cannibalism-evolution.html 

Ants vomit into each other's mouths to form social bonds. Ants have social networks, and they exchange info through vomit.

https://www.livescience.com/ants-vomit-to-form-social-bonds 

How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution

https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2021/11/how-western-diet-has-derailed-our.htm 

Genetic Changes In Bronze Age Southern Iberia

https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2021/11/genetic-changes-in-bronze-age-southern.html

Flowering Plants: An Evolution Revolution

https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2021/11/flowering-plants-evolution-revolution.html 

See Incredible Transformation of Paralyzed Mice Given Nanofibers in 4 Week Study Breakthrough

https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2021/11/see-incredible-transformation-of.html 

Why whales in Alaska have been so happy

https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2021/11/why-whales-in-alaska-have-been-so-happy.htm 

Stanford Researchers Recognize Lack of Whales Wrecks the Oceans

https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2021/11/stanford-researchers-recognize-lack-of.html 

Robots Won’t Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon. Even Amazon’s new AI-powered machines aren’t nearly capable enough to handle the most important fulfillment tasks.

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-warehouse-robots-worker-shortage/ 

First Professional Astronomer Detection of UFO from Space Telescope!?

https://climateofsophistry.com/2021/12/01/first-professional-astronomer-detection-of-ufo-from-space-telescope/ 

The comet of the century, Leonard, is heading toward Earth. Some believe it heralds the end of the world.

https://vstories.medium.com/the-comet-of-the-century-leonard-is-heading-toward-earth-50f4bf1ee9b 

The Famous Celibate Physicist Inventor Who Fell Madly in Love With a Pigeon. Nikola Tesla was a man of impossible intelligence and few meaningful human relationships

https://historianandrew.medium.com/the-famous-celibate-physicist-inventor-who-fell-madly-in-love-with-a-pigeon-5aaa9a91e62c 

What Really Happens When You Divide By Zero?

https://thewalkingtemple.medium.com/what-really-happens-when-you-divide-by-zero-a1893bd7f13c