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BaldProphet, in 3D-Printed Neural Tissue Grows And Functions Like a Human Brain
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Am I the only one who thinks this looks like a bunch of cherry shrimp in a bed of Java moss?

TimeSquirrel, in 3D-Printed Neural Tissue Grows And Functions Like a Human Brain
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Really balancing on that ethics knife's edge here, aren't we?

shiveyarbles, in Astronauts may be able to make cement using their own pee

Well that’s a kick. I would have thought poop would work better

wildncrazyguy, in 1st look at asteroid Bennu samples suggests space rock may even be 'a fragment of an ancient ocean world'

Any chance it could be a fragment of Theia?

pragmakist,
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Or Earth.

Pieces of Earth was do doubt also flung about.

Hyperreality, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000

Causality.

Some people aren't unhealthy because they don't walk enough, they don't walk enough because they're unhealthy or have an underlying condition.

Someone in a coma ain't walking much, but that's not the main reason they're more likely to die sooner rather than later.

LilB0kChoy, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000

Saved you a click: Per the article it’s closer To 6,000

lemonflavoured,
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Which is what the app on my phone is based on already. I manage it most days easily by walking from the bus station to work and back, which is ~1 mile. And that doesn't include the time I'm actually at work, because I can't wear my smart watch actually in the office.

Pons_Aelius, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000

Not surprising. The 10K steps idea was first set by a Japanese maker of pedometers as a marketing exercise with zero research to back it up.

GigglyBobble,

The pedometers are all so imprecise though that it showing 10k may well be 6k real steps.

bedrooms,

6k would be too easy to motivate buying pedometers, I guess.

rhythmisaprancer, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000
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I don't understand why they use steps. Who counts steps? It is more individualized than a distance, but my gosh, who is out there saying 4,981, 4,982, ...? I know roughly the distance of my pace and could convert.

It really sounds like we need folks to get out and do it, tho!

BilboSwaggins, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000
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For adults aged 60 and older, this reduced risk topped out at around 6,000 to 8,000 steps a day. Pushing further might have other benefits, but a reduced chance of death isn't one.

The study found that those who are younger could do well to walk a little more, but there wasn't evidence that they'd necessarily live longer by walking more than 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day.

As for the rate of steps, the team found volume is what really matters.

pineapplelover, in Scientists Identify The Optimal Number of Daily Steps For Longevity, And It's Not 10,000

Damn. Guess I’m gonna die. I really gotta change my routine

Scio,
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@pineapplelover Which way though? Increase or decrease?

Big_Boss_77,
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You and me both, neighbor.

ScarletIndy, (edited ) in Unnatural evolutionary processes of SARS-CoV-2 variants and possibility of deliberate natural selection

This is missing the biggest piece: phylogenetic analysis. They aligned a selected group of mutations and then eyeballed the alignments and then speculated.

Here’s what the methods section for this paper should look like in order to make the theoretical leap.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8969601/

A reasonable phylogenetic tree is here: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global/6m

rhythmisaprancer, in Neanderthal DNA may explain why some of us are morning people
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including genes linked to ... hair

Hmm well that explains why I am a hairy morning person!

TH1NKTHRICE, in Sorbonne University unsubscribes from the Web of Science

My first question was, what is the alternative? Here’s the answer:

…now working to consolidate a sustainable, international alternative, in particular by using OpenAlex.

Tomassci,
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Thanks for retrieving this.

Kata1yst, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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We either need to rename Uranus to the traditional spelling of Ouranos to stop all this childish teasing, or we need to lean in harder and have the Onion get final edit on every single scientific publication on that planet.

snooggums,
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They fixed it in Futurama.l to avoid those childish jokes.

They renamed it Urectum.

admiralteal,

you - Rahn - oos

You don't even need to change the spelling, just pronounce it a way that better resembles the underlying Greek. Problem is, no English-speaker needs to think about pronunciation for the other planets because the latin is just pronounced phonetically.

It's weird that it's the one Greek-named planet. If we're changing things up, it should just be Caelus to match the others.

DrYes,
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oo rah noos

"U" is not pronounced like "you" at all. "Noos" is also pretty off.

DrYes, in Strange object found trapped near Uranus
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Probably just some cloaked Klingons

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