Hacker News with Generative AI: Science

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk (theguardian.com)
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.
Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia
4 points by amichail 3 hours ago | 0 comments
Bonobos' calls may be the closest thing to animal language we've seen (arstechnica.com)
Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of Swiss scientists led by Melissa Berthet, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Zurich, discovered bonobos can combine these basic sounds into larger semantic structures.
Animal Communication, Linguistics, Primates, Science, Research
44 points by rbanffy 6 hours ago | 9 comments
What Is the True Promise of Quantum Computing? (quantamagazine.org)
Quantum computing promises unprecedented speed, but in practice, it’s proven remarkably difficult to find important questions that quantum machines can solve faster than classical ones.
Quantum Computing, Science, Technology, Computing
3 points by four_fifths 8 hours ago | 0 comments
Shingles vaccine linked to reduction in dementia diagnoses, study finds (abc.net.au)
Scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine is linked to reduced dementia risk.
Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia
10 points by stubish 15 hours ago | 0 comments
Space Debris: Is It a Crisis? (esa.int)
Space, Space Exploration, Environment, Science
60 points by defrost 16 hours ago | 65 comments
Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk (theguardian.com)
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.
Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia
6 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 1 comments
Pink Skies (ist.ac.at)
Organoids have revolutionized science and medicine, providing platforms for disease modeling, drug testing, and understanding developmental processes. While not exact replicas of human organs, they offer significant insights. The Siegert group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) presents a new organoid model that reveals details of the developing nervous system’s response to viral infections, such as Rubella. This model could influence pharmaceutical testing, particularly benefiting drug safety for pregnant women.
Science, Medicine, Organoids, Developmental Biology, Viral Infections
5 points by geox 1 day ago | 0 comments
An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak In The Alps (theatlantic.com)
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
Health, Science, Disease Outbreaks, ALS, Alps
5 points by voisin 1 day ago | 1 comments
Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives (economist.com)
Organ transplants are a familiar idea. Organelle transplants, less so. Yet organelles are to cells what organs are to bodies—specialised components that divvy up the labour needed to keep the whole thing ticking over. Swapping old organelles for new in cells where the machinery has switched from ticking to tocking thus makes sense in principle. And, for one type of organelle, that principle is now being tested in practice.
Biotechnology, Health, Medicine, Science
9 points by Brajeshwar 1 day ago | 0 comments
Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk (theguardian.com)
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.
Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia
4 points by zeristor 1 day ago | 0 comments
Water vapor quantification in raw product gas by THz quantum cascade laser (sciencedirect.com)
Online quantification of water vapor in hot and complex gases, like raw product gas from biomass gasification, is essential for process understanding and control.
Science, Technology, Engineering, Gasification, Water Vapor
4 points by PaulHoule 1 day ago | 0 comments
'One of the darkest days': NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs (nature.com)
On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency — including the country’s top infectious-diseases official — were removed from their posts.
Health, Leadership, Government, Science, Layoffs
13 points by rbanffy 1 day ago | 0 comments
Omega-6 fatty acid promotes the growth of an aggressive type of breast cancer (sciencedaily.com)
Linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid found in seed oils such as soybean and safflower oil, and animal products including pork and eggs, specifically enhances the growth of the hard-to-treat "triple negative" breast cancer subtype, according to a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.
Breast Cancer, Health, Nutrition, Science, Fatty Acids
17 points by FollowingTheDao 2 days ago | 1 comments
Neighborhood environmental exposures and incidence of ADHD (sciencedirect.com)
Emerging studies have associated low greenspace and high air pollution exposure with risk of child attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Population-based studies are limited, however, and joint effects are rarely evaluated.
Health, Science, Environment
6 points by xlii 2 days ago | 1 comments
I can smell when people have cancer (reddit.com)
Believe it or not, I can smell when someone has cancer.
Cancer, Health, Science, Human Senses
18 points by nixass 2 days ago | 9 comments
What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees? [video] (youtube.com)
Earth, Rotation, Hypothetical Scenarios, Science, Video
11 points by skibz 2 days ago | 0 comments
Commercial fusion power companies moving toward test systems (arstechnica.com)
A tokamak moves forward as two companies advance plans for stellarators.
Fusion Power, Energy, Science, Technology
16 points by bentobean 2 days ago | 0 comments
China Plans Ambitious Nuclear Fusion Target for 2030 (gizmodo.com)
China has set its sights on a new fusion-fission power plant that could be up and running by the end of the decade.
China, Nuclear Fusion, Energy, Science, 2030
5 points by mpweiher 2 days ago | 0 comments
'One of the darkest days': NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs (nature.com)
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
Science, Health, Government, Layoffs, Leadership
11 points by rntn 2 days ago | 1 comments
Jumping Spiders Can Think Ahead, Plan Detours (2016) (nationalgeographic.com)
With brains the size of a sesame seed, jumping spiders may seem like mental lightweights.
Animals, Science, Biology, Behavior
6 points by droideqa 2 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Could you help me find an old post? (ycombinator.com)
I remember there was an old but popular post on HN front page about a failed startup project. The project is about distilling biology science. The conclusion was that there is no money in science distillation.
Hacker News, Startups, Science, Business
7 points by billconan 2 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Calculation Hub: Every Calculation Tool You'll Ever Need (calculation-hub.com)
Access hundreds of free calculators in one place. Financial, scientific, health, and more — all the tools to make informed decisions.
Tools, Finance, Science, Health
15 points by saguiitay 2 days ago | 0 comments
We can, must, and will simulate nematode brains (asteriskmag.com)
Scientists have spent over 25 years trying — and failing — to build computer simulations of the smallest brain we know. Today, we finally have the tools to pull it off.
Science, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Biology
124 points by l1n 2 days ago | 115 comments
Top US Scientists "SOS" Letter to the Government (nytimes.com)
Researchers at academic institutions nationwide say that U.S. science is being dismantled.
Science, Government, Research, Academia, United States
6 points by hydrolox 2 days ago | 1 comments
'Chaos': Trump cuts to Noaa disrupt staffing and weather forecasts (theguardian.com)
A sense of chaos has gripped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), one of the world’s premier research agencies, with key staff hastily fired and then rehired, cuts to vital weather forecasting operations and even a new, unsecured server that led to staff being deluged by obscene spam emails.
Politics, Government, Climate Change, Science
16 points by sea-gold 3 days ago | 2 comments
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Biology, Science
334 points by mackopes 3 days ago | 107 comments
The US Assault on Science: National Academies Letter (nytimes.com)
Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.
Science, Politics, Research, United States
95 points by pmags 3 days ago | 42 comments
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria found in technician's garden (nature.com)
Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains resistant to commercial drugs — and is not toxic to human cells1.
Antibiotics, Medical Research, Science, Bacteria
8 points by ascorbic 3 days ago | 0 comments
Trump's Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn (nytimes.com)
President Trump’s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned about and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research.
Science, Economics, Politics, Trump Administration
23 points by breadwinner 3 days ago | 9 comments
New blood test checks for Alzheimer's and assesses progression, study (theguardian.com)
Researchers have developed a blood test for patients with thinking and memory problems to check if they have Alzheimer’s and to see how far it has progressed.
Alzheimer's, Medicine, Health, Science, Research
10 points by pseudolus 3 days ago | 0 comments