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Links for you. Science: Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend A family of linear plasmid phages that detect a quorum-sensing autoinducer exists in multiple bacterial species Scientists Discover ‘Black Widow’ Exoplanet That Defies … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: FDA Commissioner: HIV “May Very Well Have Come From a Lab”: During a recent podcast appearance, Dr. Marty Makary promoted lab origin conspiracy theories involving HIV, Lyme disease, and one dead raccoon. We Are Living Through … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: You Recovered From COVID, But Did Your Brain? New Scans Raise Questions Moloch’s Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences Why Adopting Denmark’s Vaccine Schedule Would Be Dangerous for American Children. The comparison driving HHS … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study by controversial Danish researchers The Most Feared … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: RFK, Jr.–Backed Lyme Disease Conspiracy Theory May Be Probed under New Bill NSF pares down grant-review process, reducing influence of outside scientists Free pass or failing grade for saturated fats? Review sets off scientific and political … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Temporal dynamics and policy implications in an innovation arms race Experiment to train rats to play Doom reaches a new level; rats can now shoot enemies — wraparound AMOLED screen provides virtual environment for neuroengineers’ expanded … Continue reading →