Air Pollution Raises Our Risk Of A Stroke And Its Later Complications - [2022-09-29 P2Whtk]

Genetic test for cancer is less accurate for Black and Asian people:

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A study of genetic test results used to guide cancer treatment found that Black people had their tumours misclassified twice as often as white people

Western Arctic ocean is acidifying four times faster than other oceans:

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Melting ice has increased how fast Arctic waters are absorbing carbon dioxide, making them more acidic faster. The change could disrupt entire marine ecosystems

Hubble and JWST both saw the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid mission:

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After NASA’s DART mission slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope took simultaneous pictures of what was left behind

Emissions from mining a single bitcoin have increased 126-fold:

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Between 2016 and 2021, the carbon emissions associated with mining bitcoin have increased from 0.9 tonnes to 113 tonnes per coin

Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants to build a metaverse open to all:

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Lamina1 was contacted for comment.   Neal Stephenson was contacted for comment.   Facebook did not respond to a request for comment on the standards underpinning its own metaverse, and whether it might consider making it interoperable wi…

The cosmos doesn't work to my research schedule – but that's OK:

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I work on the dark matter problem knowing the questions I have may be answered long after I die. This is the life I signed up for: to think about interesting ideas and hopefully find out whether any of them are correct, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Robotic pill that delivers drugs to gut could end insulin injections:

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A drug-carrying capsule with a motor protects medicines from stomach acid and enzymes before releasing them in the small intestine

Wild boar appear destructive, but they make excellent conservationists:

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Keystone species such as wild boar, eagles and lynx were managing the planet quite well for millions of years before humans got involved. We must cherish them, says Benedict Macdonald

Newly recognised species of sloth has a head like a coconut:

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Maned sloths were thought to be one species but a genetic and physical analysis suggests there are actually two

Air pollution raises our risk of a stroke and its later complications:

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Exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended air pollution exposure limit could substantially increase our risk of a first-time stroke