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Cinnabar-red polypore
Red cracking bolete
King bolete
Yellow stagshorn
#MushroomMonday

Modern-day potato originated from hybridization event with tomatoes 9 million years ago, study reveals An international research team has uncovered that natural interbreeding in the wild between tomato plants and potato-like species from South America about 9 million years ago gave rise to the modern-d...

You say potato, I say tomato phys.org/news/2025-07...

Take that, Vik!

At this rate, Americans should go extinct within the next two decades…🙄

So Starship Ship 36 just detonated *before* the static fire test - fueled and waiting for the test. Looks like the top tank lets go and sets off the whole stack. It would be bad enough if it let go during the static fire test, but it just blew up. And it's cooking off the fuel tanks on the pad.

Gericht stoppt Abweisung Asylsuchender hinter der Grenze Juristische Schlappe für Innenminister Dobrindt. Beamte der Bundespolizei dürfen Asylsuchende an der Grenze nicht einfach abweisen. Das entscheidet das Berliner Verwaltungsgericht nach einer Klage von...

Dobrindt und Gerichte… Hatten wir das nicht schon mal ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

www.n-tv.de/politik/Geri...

SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Even More Humiliating Than… Musk is making a fatal mistake.

“SpaceX Has Finally Figured Out Why Starship Exploded, And The Reason Is Even More Humiliating Than…“ by Will Lockett on Medium: wlockett.medium.com/spacex-has-f...

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Father of the Abortion Pill, Is Dead at 98

“I want to help women. I have not dedicated my life to abortion. I am not anti-children… Women die in botched abortions. Two hundred thousand every year. RU-486 can save them.” Hero.

Brechen die Berge durch den Klimawandel auseinander? - bergundsteigen Nach Felsstürzen in Tirol und im Engadin wurde auftauender Permafrost als Ursache viel diskutiert. Welche Rolle spielt der Klimawandel dabei?

Aus gegebenem Anlass…

« Der Klimawandel hat verschiedene Folgen, die sich negativ auf die Stabilität von Felsflanken auswirken, wie den Rückzug von Gletschern, das Auftauen von Permafrost, extreme Niederschlagsereignisse und plötzliche Schneeschmelzen »

www.bergundsteigen.com/artikel/brec...

The Molecular Bond That Helps Secure Your Memories | Quanta Magazine How do memories last a lifetime when the molecules that form them turn over within days, weeks or months? An interaction between two proteins points to a molecular basis for memory.

www.quantamagazine.org/the-molecula...

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I think we should coin a phrase to describe the Trumpian wholesale destruction of science in favour of ideology.

The New Lysenkoism works, but it's not spectacular.

Making American Science Awful (MASAism) maybe a bit better.

Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power Sam Altman says OpenAI is spending "tens of millions of dollars" processing chatbot queries made with proper etiquette.

Be nice to AI. You never know… 😂

#AI #chatgpt #TheMatrix
futurism.com/altman-pleas...

After Two Phase 3 Trial Fails, Cassava Sciences Gives Up On Alzheimer’s Drugs Cassava has faced scrutiny and federal investigations over their Alzheimer's drug simufilam. Now, the company is throwing in the towel.

So much money wasted... www.beingpatient.com/cassava-give...

"The X-Files" Home (TV Episode 1996) ⭐ 8.8 | Adventure, Crime, Drama 44m | TV-MA

I'm still traumatized from the episode with the inbred family in the woods of Pennsylvania 😱https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751137/

I admire the fact that you remember how Tooms died 31 years ago 😳

Mein Mitleid hält sich in Grenzen 😂😂😂

Mandimycin is a new polyene macrolide antifungal with a novel mode of action The new compound is similar in structure to amphotericin B but binds to a different target

The deadliest pathogenic fungi, such as Candida auris, are becoming increasingly resistant to approved antifungals, which is why researchers are on the hunt for new antifungal compounds. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

Now that Amazon has bought the James Bond franchise, we already know who will reprise the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld 😂

Zelenskyy and two Russian traitors

This moment is going in the history books as the moment the US became irrelevant as a global power and ushered in the start of world war 3.

Zelenskyy exposed the traitors.

‘A bloodbath’: HIV field is reeling after billions in U.S. funding are axed USAID’s promises to support lifesaving efforts are broken, putting millions in peril

“Instead of a careful handover, we’re being pushed off a cliff,” said Kate Rees, an epidemiologist with South Africa’s Anova Health Institute, which has also seen its funding terminated.
Story on the devastating cuts to the HIV/AIDS field by my colleague @cohenjon.bsky.social 🧪 #IDsky

Today's #RDKit blog post is a tutorial on using the AdjustQueryProperties function to have more control over substructure queries
greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/p...

Eight years ago, Angela Merkel was praised as the leader of the free world.

Today, Zelensky became the new leader of the free world.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

Periodic cooking of eggs Communications Engineering - Emilia Di Lorenzo and colleagues propose an approach to address the energy transport problem of cooking the albumen and yolk of a boiled egg at their optimal...

How to optimally cook eggs… rdcu.be/d8VdU

"Calling Elon Musk a nazi is an absolutely ridiculous insult. The Nazis made incredible cars."

- Stephen Fry

I've seen multiple posts about this. If you know of any efforts to archive datasets/articles on CDC website, please let me know, so I can boost, and support with donations if possible.

#stopTheScrub #saveCDCData #IstandWithPublicHealth

China's DeepSeek AI dethrones ChatGPT on App Store: Here's what you should know The buzz around Chinese AI startup DeepSeek began picking up steam earlier this month, when the startup released R1, its model that rivals OpenAI's o1.

#Deepseek #AI
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/c...

Tap water in French cities contaminated by toxic forever chemicals, study warns Drinking water in Paris and other French cities is heavily contaminated with “forever chemicals”, which can affect fertility and cause certain cancers, according to a new study.

www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...