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Submission + - Curiosity drives viewers to ignore trigger warnings (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: A new Flinders University study has found that nearly 90% of young people who saw a trigger warning still chose to view the content, saying that they did so out of curiosity, rather than because they felt emotionally prepared or protected.

The findings published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry aligned with a growing body of lab-based research suggesting that trigger warnings rarely lead to the avoidance of potentially distressing material.

Submission + - Working Egg Cells Made Using DNA From Human Skin in World First (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: Scientists have created egg-like cells capable of fertilization using DNA from ordinary skin cells in what could be a major breakthrough for infertility research.

Using a newly developed technique to remove excess chromosomes, a team led by clinical biologist Nuria Marti-Gutierrez of Oregon Health & Science University has created human eggs that can undergo successful fertilization and start to develop into zygotes.

A clinical application for this technique is still at least 10 to 15 years away, the authors speculate, and some key challenges and ethical obstacles remain, but it's a proof of concept that may offer hope for future cases of infertility.

Submission + - Reddit Mods Sued by YouTuber Ethan Klein Fight Efforts to Unmask Them (404media.co)

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alternative_right writes: Critics of YouTuber Ethan Klein are pushing back on subpoenas that would reveal their identities as part of an ongoing legal fight between Klein and his detractors. Klein is a popular content creator whose YouTube channel has more than 2 million subscribers. He’s also involved in a labyrinthine personal and legal beef with three other content creators and the moderators of a subreddit that criticises his work. Klein filed a legal motion to compel Discord and Reddit

to reveal the identities of those moderators, a move their lawyers say would put them in harm’s way and stifle free speech on the internet forever.

Klein is most famous for his H3 Podcast and collaborations with Hasan Piker and Trisha Paytas which he produced through his company Ted Entertainment Inc. Following a public falling out with Piker, Klein released a longform video essay critiquing his former podcast partner. As often happens with long video essays about YouTube drama, other content creators filmed themselves watching Klein’s essay.

Submission + - Streaming is overtaking theaters for movie watchers, an AP-NORC poll finds (apnews.com)

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alternative_right writes: About three-quarters of U.S. adults said they watched a new movie on streaming instead of in the theater at least once in the past year, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, including about 3 in 10 who watched new movies on streaming at least once a month.

Meanwhile, about two-thirds of Americans said that they’ve watched a recently released movie in a theater in the past year, and only 16% said they went at least once a month.

Submission + - On giving up my smartphone (thecritic.co.uk)

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alternative_right writes: I think part of the appeal of returning to a dumb phone is that it shrinks your world, letting you be more connected to the people directly around you — cutting out the stream of banal and useless content from social media apps. But when it’s gone you realise that the extra limb can actually be really useful. Restaurants that make you use a QR code should all be banned, but it turns out I can either read a newspaper on my phone, or not at all.

Submission + - The quantum internet just went live on Verizon's network (sciencedaily.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: Penn engineers have taken quantum networking from the lab to Verizon’s live fiber network, using a silicon “Q-chip” that speaks the same Internet Protocol as the modern web. The system pairs classical and quantum signals like a train engine with sealed cargo, ensuring routing without destroying quantum states. By maintaining fidelity above 97% even under real-world noise, the approach shows that a scalable quantum internet is possible using today’s infrastructure.

Submission + - Study discovers link between vehicle emissions and commercial real estate return (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: As sustainability rises to the forefront of investment strategy, new research from Virginia Tech published in the Journal of Real Estate Research reveals that environmental factors, specifically vehicle emissions, play a measurable role in shaping commercial real estate performance.

Submission + - We Emit a Visible Light That Vanishes When We Die, Says Surprising Study (sciencealert.com)

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alternative_right writes: An extraordinary experiment on mice and leaves from two different plant species has uncovered direct physical evidence of an eerie 'biophoton' phenomenon ceasing on death, suggesting all living things – including humans – could literally glow with health, until we don't.

Submission + - Tiny new lenses, smaller than a hair, could transform phone and drone cameras (sciencedaily.com) 1

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alternative_right writes: Scientists have developed a new multi-layered metalens design that could revolutionize portable optics in devices like phones, drones, and satellites. By stacking metamaterial layers instead of relying on a single one, the team overcame fundamental limits in focusing multiple wavelengths of light. Their algorithm-driven approach produced intricate nanostructures shaped like clovers, propellers, and squares, enabling improved performance, scalability, and polarization independence.

Submission + - Rare-earth tritellurides reveal a hidden ferroaxial order of electronic origin (phys.org)

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alternative_right writes: The discovery of "hidden orders," organization patterns in materials that cannot be detected using conventional measurement tools, can yield valuable insight, which can in turn support the design of new materials with advantageous properties and characteristics. The hidden orders that condensed matter physicists hope to uncover lie within so-called charge density waves (CDWs).

Submission + - NASA: More than 6,000 exoplanets confirmed, over 8,000 candidates (heise.de)

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alternative_right writes: The existence of planets around other stars was only experimentally confirmed three decades ago; now there are more and more instruments designed specifically for the search. More than two-thirds of the confirmed exoplanets were found using the so-called transit method, which involves observing them as they pass in front of their star. More than 1.100 additional exoplanets were found using the radial velocity method, in which stars reveal their small companions through their own movements. NASA lists nine other methods, but together they have contributed only a few hundred exoplanets to the database.

According to the database, researchers also know the mass of one-third of the confirmed exoplanets, 102 of which are roughly comparable to Earth. In addition, over 500 exoplanets are about the size of Earth, and the radius is known for almost 4.500 celestial bodies. This and much more data can be found in NASA's "Exoplanet Archive," which is maintained by the Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology. According to NASA, the rate at which the number of confirmed exoplanets is growing has recently accelerated, with the 5.000 mark only being exceeded at the beginning of 2022. Future instruments are likely to cause the number to rise even faster.

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