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First evidence of spinning black hole detected by scientists (www.theguardian.com)
 

Region at centre of Messier 87 galaxy captured by the Event Horizon Telescope in motion

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9,500-Year-Old Baskets And 6,200-Year-Old Sandals Found In Spanish Cave (www.ancientpages.com)
 

Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe.

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Tree-hugging AI to the rescue of Brazilian Amazon (phys.org)
 

Small, artificially intelligent boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.

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Chinese Astronauts May Build a Base Inside a Lunar Lava Tube (www.universetoday.com)
 

China is the latest nation to study lunar lava tubes as locations for bases. They provide natural protection that's impossible to ignore.

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Unlocking the Brain’s Secrets: Where Does Conscious Experience Truly Reside? (scitechdaily.com)
 

Recordings show prolonged activity in the visual cortex when looking at images, outlasting conscious awareness of image. More than a quarter of all stroke victims develop a bizarre disorder — they lose conscious awareness of half of all that their eyes perceive.

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Unearthing ancient faith: Byzantine Greek inscription of Psalms 86 found in Hyrcania (phys.org)
 

Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeology recently carried out preliminary excavation at the ancient site of Hyrcania in the northern Judean Desert, coming at the heels of increased activity by antiquities looters.

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Forget Alien Megastructures. New Study Says We Need to Look For 'Service Worlds'. (www.sciencealert.com)
 

In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy.

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‘Fossilized’ Bubble 10,000 Times the Size of the Milky Way Could Be a Relic from the Big Bang (www.scientificamerican.com)
 

Astronomers have spotted a gigantic void they believe to be a baryon acoustic oscillation — a relic from when the universe was a fiery plasma soup

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James Webb Space Telescope's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet (phys.org)
 

In a solar system called TRAPPIST-1, 40 light years from the sun, seven Earth-sized planets revolve around a cold star.

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NASA's first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft (phys.org)
 

NASA's first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.

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DOD Exercises Option on Second Micro Nuclear Reactor Design (www.defense.gov)
 

As part of the Strategic Capabilities Office initiative Project Pele, the DOD awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC of Rockville, Md., to develop an enhanced engineering design for a

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases asteroid sample capsule toward Earth in flyby, heads to Apophis (www.space.com)
 

OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid Bennu will land at 10:42 a.m. EDT (1442 GMT), while the spacecraft itself heads to a new target.

Bizarre 'demon' particle found inside superconductor could help unlock a 'holy grail' of physics in c/science@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Space.com would probably appreciate the clicks.

How do you keep on living while knowing that you will die? in c/AskKbin@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

“Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Chip implants get under your skin so you can leave your keys at home | Engadget in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

“Consumers should be fully aware of the “hidden” costs (privacy, risks, and advertising messages) associated with such tech and not just the cost of getting such implants,”

This should be at the top of the article.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"This isn't from the Tree of Knowledge. You won't find one in the orchards of Heavenly Hillsboro. Birches, beeches, butternuts. A few ignorance bushes. No Tree of Knowledge."

Inherit the Wind

Bear without fur...wow in c/damnthatsinteresting@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I can see this being mistaken for some mythological cryptid.

**Evidence the oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10,000 years old:** In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he r in c/history@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

@freecandy Looks like a limitation in the app. I just checked across lemmy, behaw, and mastodon. Everything is displaying as expected. Thanks for the heads up, though.

**Evidence the oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10,000 years old:** In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he r in c/history@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@freecandy What app is that?

**Evidence the oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10,000 years old:** In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he r in c/history@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

@freecandy Didn't realize it was getting cutoff. Where does it get cutoff at? I can see the complete post:

**Evidence the oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10,000 years old:** In 1970, Lardil man Goobalathaldin (or Dick Roughsey) completed his autobiography "Moon and Rainbow" in which he r in c/history@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

@freecandy What do you mean? They are all human.

"I think it's absolutely awesome that people are still telling a story today has been passed down for 99% of that time by word of mouth, rather than being written down. It's a living story."

Stories being passed from human to human.

What are your thoughts about eBooks? in c/books@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

@brcl I believe it is 3 weeks and you can renew as much as you want as long as there is no one waiting for the book. But other Libraries may have different rules.

What are your thoughts about eBooks? in c/books@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

95% of book reading occurs on an ebook. I use a kindle and download books from my local Library. A Kindle, Libby, and a Library card is the best investment I have ever made. My reading increased by 200%! (okay that number is made up ... but I read a lot more now).

What is Worldcoin and what does it mean for our privacy? | Context in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] readbeanicecream@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

in return for biometric data

Seems a little too invasive for me.

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