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Cold Beer Tastes More Like Ethanol Because Chain-Like Clusters Take Over Near 41 Degrees
May 1, 2024
Cold Beer Tastes More Like Ethanol Because Chain-Like Clusters Take Over Near 41 Degrees
A Matter study mapped the ethanol-water clusters that make beer taste more alcoholic near 41°F, while warmed baijiu moves the other way. Later spectra say the mixture may not even…
NASA Paid $300,000 for a Mars Menu While a Tomato Doubled in Fake Martian Dirt and the Carrot Lost
May 1, 2024
NASA Paid $300,000 for a Mars Menu While a Tomato Doubled in Fake Martian Dirt and the Carrot Lost
NASA's Mars to Table prize and a new dirt-eating microbe still have not fixed the perchlorate problem Wageningen measured when tomatoes doubled and carrots lost.
NASA’s Psyche Laser Sent 13.6 Terabits From Deep Space, Then Mars Flung the Spacecraft Toward a Metal Asteroid
April 30, 2024
NASA’s Psyche Laser Sent 13.6 Terabits From Deep Space, Then Mars Flung the Spacecraft Toward a Metal Asteroid
NASA's Psyche spacecraft used a laser to move 13.6 terabits across deep space. The demo ended in 2025. In May 2026 Mars gave the probe a 1,000-mph boost toward asteroid…
Florida Keys Proved Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Can Shrink Aedes aegypti, and the EPA Still Will Not Let Anyone Sell Them
April 28, 2021
Florida Keys Proved Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Can Shrink Aedes aegypti, and the EPA Still Will Not Let Anyone Sell Them
Oxitec's OX5034 trial in the Florida Keys ended in 2024. The EPA says no genetically engineered mosquito release is authorized. A September 29, 2026 White House order tells the agency…
Painless People and Unbreakable Bones Became a $2.1 Billion Drug and a Pain Pill Aimed at the Channel Next Door
February 16, 2019
Painless People and Unbreakable Bones Became a $2.1 Billion Drug and a Pain Pill Aimed at the Channel Next Door
SCN9A and SOST were mined as drug templates. Evenity, from the bone gene, did $2.1 billion in 2025. Journavx blocks NaV1.8, not the painless-people channel, and filled about 900,000 prescriptions…
Our Universe May Ride an Expanding Bubble, and the Dark Energy Offered to Explain It Will Not Sit Still
January 5, 2019
Our Universe May Ride an Expanding Bubble, and the Dark Energy Offered to Explain It Will Not Sit Still
Uppsala physicists put our cosmos on the skin of a bubble in an extra dimension. DESI's map made a constant dark energy look shaky, then a 2026 Lyman-alpha measurement tugged…
Four Sky Measurements a Flat-Earth Disc Still Cannot Survive, From a Sun That Would Never Set to Stars That Only the South Can See
August 4, 2017
Four Sky Measurements a Flat-Earth Disc Still Cannot Survive, From a Sun That Would Never Set to Stars That Only the South Can See
Joshua Kitterman's four globe proofs still stand: sunsets, one moon, airline altitude, and the southern sky. A 2026 lake video failed by using the wrong distance.
A Laser-Etched Black Metal Distills Real Ocean Water in Sunlight, Stacks the Salt as a Solid, and Pulls Lithium From Great Salt Lake Brine
July 5, 2017
A Laser-Etched Black Metal Distills Real Ocean Water in Sunlight, Stacks the Salt as a Solid, and Pulls Lithium From Great Salt Lake Brine
Rice's 2017 solar membrane, Rochester's brine-free black metal, and MIT's battery-free New Mexico trial sit beside a $2.8 billion Australian plant that still returns brine to the sea.
Two Consciousness Theories Failed the Same Brain Scan, and Panpsychism Still Does Not Own the Universe
June 29, 2017
Two Consciousness Theories Failed the Same Brain Scan, and Panpsychism Still Does Not Own the Universe
A 2025 Nature study left Integrated Information Theory and Global Workspace missing key predictions. Panpsychism remains a philosophical bet, not a lab result.
Nine Industrial Jobs Hemp Already Performs While Congress Splits the Intoxicating Cannabinoid Deadline
February 27, 2017
Nine Industrial Jobs Hemp Already Performs While Congress Splits the Intoxicating Cannabinoid Deadline
Congress split the federal hemp clock. Most intoxicating-cannabinoid limits move to December 11, while fiber, grain, and hurd stay defined as hemp.