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Submission + - Nearly all women in STEM secretly feel like impostors (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: Nearly all women in STEM graduate programs report feeling like impostors, despite strong evidence of success. This mindset leads many to dismiss their achievements as luck and fear being “found out.” Research links impostorism to worse mental health, higher burnout, and increased thoughts of dropping out. Supportive environments and shifting beliefs about intelligence may help break the cycle.

Submission + - China's "artificial sun" just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbrea (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion plasma. The experiment confirmed that plasma can remain stable even at extreme densities if its interaction with the reactor walls is carefully controlled. This finding removes a major obstacle that has slowed progress toward fusion ignition.

Submission + - Everyday chemicals are quietly damaging beneficial gut bacteria (sciencedaily.com)

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alternative_right writes: A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, found in pesticides and everyday industrial products, were never thought to affect living organisms at all. When gut bacteria are stressed by these chemicals, some may also become resistant to antibiotics.

Submission + - Jurassic Park Was Right: Mosquitoes Really Can Carry Libraries of Animal DNA (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: Mosquito meals really can provide a thorough ecological snapshot of the area they buzz about, new research from the University of Florida finds.

"They say Jurassic Park inspired a new generation of paleontologists, but it inspired me to study mosquitoes," says entomologist Lawrence Reeves.

Reeves, fellow entomologist Hannah Atsma, and their colleagues caught more than 50,000 individual mosquitoes, representing 21 different species, across a 10,900-hectare protected reserve in central Florida over eight months.

Based on the blood contained in a few thousand females, the researchers found that mosquitoes' blood meals can reveal the presence of "the smallest frogs to the largest cows."

Submission + - 'Fish Mouth' Filter Removes 99% of Microplastics From Laundry Waste (sciencealert.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: The ancient evolution of fish mouths could help solve a modern source of plastic pollution.

Inspired by these natural filtration systems, scientists in Germany have invented a way to remove 99 percent of plastic particles from water. It's based on how some fish filter-feed to eat microscopic prey.

Comment Interconnection (Score 1) 93

What happens in politics influences what happens in technology, like the current Texas attempt to impose age limits on app stores.

I think this is a terrible idea because it leads to the end of internet anonymity, and anonymity is a necessary "check and balance" on both strong power and groupthink, but until enough people speak out about it, it will become the norm.

Australia has taken the age limit even further, applying it to all social media, and the UK has a similar regulation but for pr0n sites only.

Comment A little context (Score 2) 93

When the general public attitude shifts toward the Left, centrist opinions will be Left-leaning.

The only backstory I know on this one is that one study found that more Left-leaning proposals were discussed, and anything farther Right than center-Right was treated like it was dangerous.

In the real world view, news organizations reflect whatever their backers and audience will pay for. "Objective" media is probably an oxymoron.

Submission + - Something in Dark Chocolate Could Slow Aging on a Genetic Level (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: The compound theobromine is an alkaloid produced in significant quantities by the beans of the Theobroma cacao tree.

A team of researchers led by scientists from King's College London (KCL) found that people with more theobromine in their blood tended to also have signs of slower biological aging, as measured by two key biomarkers.

Comment "We are a CHRISTIAN nation." (Score 4, Informative) 282

Our founders were culturally European and accepted Christianity as the religion of the time, but most were not dogmatically Christian, more like general believers in the spiritual/metaphysical who were content to use the religion popular at the time as a vehicle. They were people of faith, but not fundamentalists or fanatics.

The religious fundamentalists seem to be abandoning MAGA at the same time the West is abandoning Christianity.

As Plato said long ago, tyrants import foreign voters:

And the more detestable his actions are to the citizens the more satellites and the greater devotion in them will he require?

Certainly.

And who are the devoted band, and where will he procure them?

They will flock to him, he said, of their own accord, if he pays them.

By the dog! I said, here are more drones, of every sort and from every land.

This is probably more of what the underlying issue is with foreign labor and why ordinary Americans seem to be opposing it.

Submission + - Aurora lights: The science behind the nighttime spectacle (dw.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: Huge explosions on the surface of the sun, known as solar storms, regularly eject vast streams of electrically charged particles. Some of this plasma ends up traveling toward Earth and is pulled toward the planet's magnetic poles.

"These particles then slam into atoms and molecules in the Earth's atmosphere and essentially heat them up," explained astronomer Tom Kerss on the Royal Museums Greenwich website. "It's very much like heating a gas and making it glow."

The different colors of light depend on the elements in the atmosphere. Oxygen, which makes up about 21% of the atmosphere, emits a green color when heated, while nitrogen tints the light purple, blue or pink.

Submission + - Coup in Paris: How an AI-generated video caused Macron a major headache (euronews.com) 2

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alternative_right writes: Alongside the message, a compelling video showcasing a swirling helicopter, military personnel, crowds and — what appears to be — a news anchor delivering a piece to camera.

"Unofficial reports suggest that there has been a coup in France, led by a colonel whose identity has not been revealed, along with the possible fall of Emmanuel Macron. However, the authorities have not issued a clear statement," she says.

Except, nothing about this video is authentic: it was created with AI.

After discovering the video, Macron asked Pharos — France's official portal for signalling online illicit content — to call Facebook's parent company Meta, to get the fake video removed.

But that request was turned down, as the platform claimed it did not violate its “rules of use."

Submission + - This AI finds simple rules where humans see only chaos (sciencedaily.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how systems evolve over time and reduces thousands of variables into compact equations that still capture real behavior. The method works across physics, engineering, climate science, and biology. Researchers say it could help scientists understand systems where traditional equations are missing or too complicated to write down.

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