Why the Dinosaurs Died

But exactly how the mass extinction of 75% of the species on Earth unfolded in the years that followed the cataclysmic impact has remained unclear.

Vibrating Pill May Give Dieters a Feeling of Fullness, Study Suggests

Research carried out on pigs showed they ate almost 40% less food after ingesting the capsule.

New AI Transistor Works Just Like the Human Brain

Moiré heterostructures have the potential to enable next-generation electronic devices with unprecedented functionality

== the oil we use most frequently, even for asian dishes; hopefully a solution is found
Olive oil is getting more expensive — and these Italian farmers can tell you why

Climate change and a variety of pests are ravaging olive groves.

Meet Kosmik, a Visual Canvas With Built-In PDF Reader and Web Browser

The tool is useful for designers, architects, consultants, and students to build boards of information for different projects.

== I have one or two of those, will likely switch to linux push come to shove
Microsoft Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million PCs To Landfills, Study Finds

The electronic waste from these PCs could weigh an estimated 480 million kilograms, equivalent to 320,000 cars,

Landais Alzheimer - the village where everyone has dementia

Landais Alzheimer, in south-west France, is a village with a difference - all the villagers have dementia.

How China’s chip production boomed in 2023 despite sanctions

Huawei played a central role in the US-China tech war.

Scientists Successfully Replicate Historic Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Three Times

After making their historic net energy gain last year, the next important step was to prove the process could be replicated.

== yjc
Dress code: How a Winnipeg codebreaker cracked one of the ‘world’s top unsolved messages’

‘Silk Dress cryptogram’ went unsolved for nearly a decade

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Tesla knew some of its parts had high failure rates but reportedly blamed drivers anyway

A bombshell investigation reveals patterns of blame-shifting, can-kicking and safety neglect.

2023 was a big year for CRISPR-based gene editing but challenges remain

Regulators in the US and the UK approved gene-based therapies for sickle cell disease.

Dark matter might be keeping an even darker secret

Researchers compare a theorized behavior of dark matter to actual galaxies.

‘Graphene will change the world’: the boss using the ‘supermaterial’ in the global microchip war

Simon Thomas knew the periodic table by heart at six. Now the Cambridge firm’s co-founder is putting his scientific brain behind graphene’s power to help us compete with China.

AI Cannot Be Patent ‘Inventor,’ UK Supreme Court Rules in Landmark Case

Under UK patent law “an inventor must be a natural person”.

== seen something on this before, but…
Hurricane Larry Dropped Over 100,000 Microplastics Per Square Meter Per Day, Study Finds

When Hurricane Larry made landfall two years ago, it dropped over 100,000 microplastics per square meter of land per day. It’s another ominous sign of how plasticized the environment has become.

Canada Lays Out Plan To Phase Out Sales of Gas-Powered Cars, Trucks By 2035

New rules will effectively end sales of vehicles powered only by gasoline or diesel by 2035.

California OKs new rules for turning wastewater directly into drinking water

This makes it the 2nd state to allow treated wastewater to be put back in drinking water pipes.

== yjc
Internet sleuths looked for the singer of a mystery song for 16 years. They found her in Vancouver

Paula Toledo’s song found an audience through, of all things, Russian bootleg DVDs.

DNA sleuths solve mystery of the 2,000-year old corpse

How did a young man born 2,000 years ago near what is now southern Russia, end up in the English countryside?

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2023 was the year the economics of tech caught up with reality

Watch as a trillion uncounted chickens come home to roost.

== yjc, a little late to compete this year perhaps, but you could still try one for fun
2023’s Online ‘Advent Calendars’ Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles

Programming language “advent calendars” offer daily tips about a programming language, or a Christmas-themed programming puzzle – one a day through December 25th. I have tried the Advent of Code the last couple of years. Though nay have a look at the Advent of Cyber in the new year.

= yjc Colonialism contributed to extinction of woolly dogs valued by Indigenous people, study suggests

‘Survival of the woolly dogs depended upon the survival of their caretakers’: study author.

Nuclear Threats Are Looming, And Nobody Knows How Many Nukes Are Out There

Researchers are using open-source intelligence such as satellite imagery and military parades to lift the fog surrounding the world’s nuclear stockpiles.

== paywall?, lengthy
India’s Flooded Farmlands Mask a Water Crisis Deep Underground

No other country consumes more groundwater. That’s testing India’s ability to feed itself and much of the world.

== yjc, this truly amazes me
Is your new car on a storage compound? Inside Kia’s scheme to deliberately withhold deliveries

Kia Canada says it cannot comment on ‘confidential internal business matters’ – no kidding

== have had previous article(s) on NASA’s space laser communication program
Nasa beams cat video from deep space with laser

Nasa has streamed an ultra high-definition video of a cat back to Earth from the depths of space.

Webb telescope’s new Uranus image looks like a portal to another dimension

The craft’s NIRCam filters captured the planet, including its rings, in unprecedented detail.

== lengthy, but I believe everyone should read this one
What are farm animals thinking?

New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock.

How May Mobility went fully driverless while avoiding the pitfalls of robotaxis

The company is launching a ‘rider only’ service in a retirement community in Arizona, where its dynamically routed microtransit service is trying to make do in a challenging environment.

Could Hot Rocks Help Solve the Climate Crisis?

These hot rocks can glow brighter than the sun. They could also help spell the end of fossil fuels.

SETI Scientists Report Discovery of More Fast Radio Bursts

This work proves that new telescopes with unique capabilities, like the ATA, can provide a new angle on outstanding mysteries in FRB science.

Deep within an inhospitable desert, a window to first life on Earth

Green mounds of stromatolites flourish at the bottom of a lagoon in Argentina’s Puna de Atacama.

Orbit Fab Wants to Create ‘Gas Stations’ in Space for Satellites

One way to start tackling the problem would be to stop producing more junk — by refueling satellites rather than decommissioning them once they run out of power.

Life May Have Everything It Needs to Exist on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

A study zooms in on data that NASA’s Cassini gathered at Saturn’s icy moon and finds evidence of a key ingredient for life and a supercharged source of energy to fuel it.