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Booga1 writes:Self-healing concrete eats CO2 to fill its own cracks in 24 hours:

iPhone bug breaks WiFi when you join hotspot with unusual name:

takyon writes:Europa volcanism & interior heating modeled in detail, offers research targets for upcoming missions

takyon writes:ESA/NASA complete ISS spacewalk to install first new solar array

takyon writes:Mass-produced floating nuclear reactors use super-safe molten salt fuel

Anti-aristarchus writes:Maybe. Maybe not. New study, reported on at SciTechDaily,

martyb writes:The Earth Has a Pulse—A 27.5-Million-Year Cycle of Geological Activity:

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upstart writes:Second Space Rock Struck Earth After the One That Killed the Dinosaurs:

upstart writes:How Do Constantly Swimming Sharks Ever Rest? Scientists Just Figured It Out:

Booga1 writes:The headline at WFAA reads: 'Woke up sweating': Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely

martyb writes:Team describes science-based hiccups intervention:

upstart writes:In the visual thalamus, neurons are in contact with both eyes but respond to only one:

gawdonblue writes:The South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (SACAT) failed to be Touched by His Noodly Appendage in a decision on Adelaide woman Tanya Watkins' claim that FSM was formed for a "religious, educational, charitable or benevolent purpose".

upstart writes:Memory helps us evaluate situations on the fly, not just recall the past: Widely known as crucial for long-term memory, hippocampus also supports short-term memory:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/06/ukraine-arrests-ransomware-gang-in-global-cybercriminal-crackdown/

takyon writes:Backscatter Radio at Gigabit Speeds

takyon writes:Rocket Mining System Could Blast Ice from Lunar Craters

DannyB writes:Windows 11 Look Inspired by KDE Plasma and GNOME?

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/18/tech/estonia-cyber-security-lessons-intl-cmd/index.html

upstart writes:Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ widespread in top makeup brands, study finds:

Anti-aristarchus writes:From China, where all the new science seems to be occuring, reported in Gizmodo.

An Anonymous Coward writes:WSJ: What Keeps People From Using Password Managers?No pay wall: https://archive.is/HCtcT

Eratosthenes writes:'Great Dimming' of Betelgeuse star is solved

Freeman writes:World Bank slams bitcoin, declines to help El Salvador's cryptocurrency plan:

MostCynical writes:Channel 9 Australia and the Guardian are reporting major outages of several banks in Australia.Outages are being reported by CBA, NAB, ANZ, Westpac and St George customers, according to DownDetector.Virgin Australia has also been affected by the outage.Twitter users are suggesting that Hosting and CDN provider Akamai is the company experiencing the issues and outages this afternoon. This is a global problem, of course the timezone makes it worst for us.There is no official word from any impacted banks as to the root cause.Additional coverage at Reuters and the BBCOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/apples-tim-cook-sideloading-is-not-in-the-best-interests-of-the-user/

takyon writes:China space station: Shenzhou-12 delivers first crew to Tianhe module

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/ddos-fugitive-commander-x-arrested-in-mexico-extradited-to-us/

upstart writes:Aging NASA Hubble Space Telescope hustles to survive latest technical glitch:

upstart writes:Nasty Linux systemd root level security bug revealed and patched:

martyb writes:Last night (actually, very early this morning) @mechanicjay: generated and installed new Let's Encrypt certs for our servers.I made a quick check and everything seems to be in place. The old certs were due to expire right about now, so if you do have any issues, please pop onto IRC (preferred) or reply here and let us know!Thanks mechanicjay!Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

looorg writes:Monkey-Human hybrids are real (at least as short-lived embryos). While interesting to see what would have become of it, this is also quite scary. Not quite sure this is the direction I want science to go in.First Monkey–Human Embryos Reignite Debate Over Hybrid Animals[1]:

[2021-06-17 15:18:18 UTC] Update: Added links to journal article and video... Thanks to AC's comments!--martyb]Eratosthenes writes:Reporting on the Associated Press

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/after-ruining-75m-jj-doses-emergent-gets-fda-clearance-for-25m-doses/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/amazon-blames-social-media-companies-for-sales-of-fake-amazon-reviews/

Largest Rotating Structures in the Universe Discovered – Fantastic Cosmic Filaments Where Galaxies Are Relatively Just Specs of Dust:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-people-fall-for-conspiracy-theories/Think of a conspiracy theorist. How do they see the world? What stands out to them? What fades into the background? Now think of yourself. How does the way you see things differ? What is it about the way you think that has stopped you from falling down a rabbit hole?Conspiracy theories have long been part of American life, but they feel more urgent than ever. Innocuous notions like whether the moon landing was a hoax feel like child's play compared to more impactful beliefs like whether vaccines are safe (they are) or the 2020 election was stolen (it wasn't). It can be easy to write off our conspiracy theorist friends and relatives as crackpots, but science shows things are far more nuanced than that. There are traits that likely prime people to be more prone to holding these beliefs, and you may find that when you take stock of these traits, you aren't far removed from your cousin who is convinced the world is run by lizard people.[...] "It's not like most beliefs are arrived at through some sort of pure logic. The world is not a bunch of Spocks running around deducing everything," said Joseph Uscinski, a professor of political science at the University of Miami who has studied conspiracy theories. "It's just not how people operate."[...] Every one of us has a brain that takes shortcuts, makes assumptions and works in irrational ways. The sooner we recognize that, and stop treating loved ones who have adopted conspiratorial beliefs as lost causes, the better we may be at curbing the beliefs that threaten our democracy and public health. We're all human after all. Well, except for the lizard people.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:SpaceX ignored last-minute warnings from the FAA before December Starship launch

progo writes:Yesterday I got this global notice on Freenode IRC network:

Windows 11 Build Leaks Ahead of Launchtakyon writes:Exclusive | First impressions of Windows 11 aka Sun Valley from a leaked ISO — A much needed visual overhaul that does not alienate long-time users

DeathMonkey writes:'Unplanned' outages hit Texas power plants in soaring temperatures

Freeman writes:Starlink dishes go into "thermal shutdown" once they hit 122° Fahrenheit:

Senate confirms Lina Khan to Federal Trade Commission in a 69-28 vote:

upstart writes:Mr. Trash Wheel is gobbling up millions of pounds of trash:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/facebook-is-a-hub-of-sex-trafficking-recruitment-in-the-us-report-says/

upstart writes:Laughing gas relieves symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Banks to Companies: No More Deposits, Please:

takyon writes:DDR5 Expected to Overtake DDR4 by 2023