🧬 Culture shaping evolution A new study argues cultural inheritance may be overtaking genetics as the main driver of human evolution, with evidence from gene–culture coevolution. 🔗 umaine.edu/news/blog/20... #SciComm #Evolution 🧪

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

NEW: In July, we discovered the third-known interstellar object. It’s now erupting all sorts of stuff, from cyanide (normal) to nickel (weird). And as one source put it: “If it is an alien spaceship, it’s done a really good job disguising it as a comet.” www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

UCLA Fields Medalist Terence Tao: "Basic #science is an investment in many, many small projects, and if even just a small percentage of them yield fruit, then it's a massive return on investment." youtu.be/skWt_PZosik?... #ResearchPowersProgress 🧪

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Ten Years Later, LIGO is a Black-Hole Hunting Machine LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA celebrate anniversary, announce verification of Stephen Hawking's Black Hole Area Theorem. www.caltech.edu/about/news/t... 🧪🔭 @ligo.org @caltech.edu

Where in the brain are decisions made? Everywhere, according to a new map! In my latest for @cnn.com, I wrote about a game-changing breakthrough in neuroscience: data gathered from more than 600,000 neurons in the mouse brain show that decision-making activity is widespread across the brain 🧪

Earlier this year, I "met" an incredible scientific payload that was built just down the road from me in Te Awa Kairangi (Lower Hutt) in Aotearoa (#nz). I wrote about it for @spectrum.ieee.org. It FINALLY has a launch date - Sept 15, ~10am NZT 👩‍🔬🧪⚛️

Here is a website from the Senate Committee on Appropriations that is tracking all the 🧪 research and training funding, over $410 billion, being held up by the Trump administration. Read it and weep (not in a good way). www.appropriations.senate.gov/trumps-unpre...