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Neat. Wearing some hibernating Cordyceps clothes seems like a good way to speedrun some life-imitates-art The Last of Us gain of function research.

Two teams with 1/4 of the world's potential customers did not make the cut for this year's tournament, more's the pity. The tournament will likely be expanded until these two teams…

I wouldn't be so sure. Were there ever any ducks? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/special-delivery-d...

>I think we need (free / community funded) third spaces to make a big comeback. Where do people even go to meet anyone now? Ireland and Australia seem to have something going with …

Arizona has a "Stupid Motorist Law" (ARS 28-910) because there are so many idiots who think they can make it across a flooded road and don't.

>How fast might a specialty language evolve Pretty fast, actually. At least if you leave it up to kids.† † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language

> Russia may be ready to attack the alliance within five years. With what, sharpened sticks? Russia will soon only be left with rattling its nuclear saber as its once mighty milita…

Russia is not only on the precipice of giving up territory in Ukraine, it's likely to give up so much more because its ability to function as a country is being systematically dest…

Zelle was built to preempt FedNow. The banks saw what was coming and wanted to own instant payments. https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....

'BYD has pulled ahead on battery tech and vertical integration right now.' - FTFY

'A new piece of electronic warfare equipment appears more precisely targeted, apparently capable of jamming Starlink terminals on the ground across an area of up to 20 square kilom…

Elon turning off Russian access to Starlink by whitelisting only authorized terminals in the region was a turning point for Ukraine's success. The conflict has proven that modern w…

'Fowler’s A. shawii , with its fused spines, was not typical; from a conservation perspective it would have been more helpful to take one with normal spines.' Unless it's a new var…

Yes, sometimes gravity resolves the problem for you.

Nobody with any intelligence is recovering these if they miss. There are a number of Reddit channels with videos of why this is a bad idea.

I'll never work in Mission Control, but the Hayabusa2 website lets me pretend I do. Kudos to whomever designed this website: https://haya2now.jp/en.html

Just in time for the big 4th of July celebrations. Happy Semiquincentennial! https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-may-see-actu...

The US is on pace to run out of its strategic reserve in ~2 weeks.

I've heard that the biggest limiting factor in octopus ocean domination is their short lifespans. Tool use, building structures, communication, facial recognition, multiple brains,…

When did octopuses start breathing air?

There's a 1991 film (and earlier novel) called Black Robe that fictionalizes what it might've been like when the first Jesuit missionaries introduced this powerful black magic to t…

The WNBA would like a word.