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Ars Technica : science
19  avril     23h45
Daniel Dennett, philosophical giant who championed naturalism, dead at 82
Jennifer Ouellette    Part of the New Atheist movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.
    21h43
It’s cutting calories not intermittent fasting that drops weight, study suggests
Beth Mole    The study is small and imperfect but offers more data on how time restricted diets work.
    18h17
Io: New image of a lake of fire, signs of permanent volcanism
John Timmer    Juno captures images of Io’s violence as study says it has always been that way.
    15h20
NASA may alter Artemis III to have Starship and Orion dock in low-Earth orbit
Eric Berger    If it were to happen, a revised Artemis III mission could echo Apollo .
    11h00
Rocket Report: Starship could save Mars Sample Return; BE-4s for second Vulcan
Stephen Clark    Australia’s first homemade orbital class rocket makes an appearance on its launch pad.
18  avril     23h52
Boeing says it will cut SLS workforce due to external factors
Eric Berger    Boeing is reviewing and adjusting current staffing levels.
    22h14
Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study finds
Beth Mole    Hospitals’ trauma activation fees are unregulated and extremely variable.
    21h16
Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile
Jennifer Ouellette    Yes, travertine often has embedded fossils. But not usually hominin ones.
    19h54
SpaceX and Northrop are working on a constellation of spy satellites
Eric Berger    First launch of these operational vehicles may occur next month from California.
    16h07
The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size
Jacek Krywko    Bones from the head of a reptile suggest a body that was well over meters long.
    12h30
The hidden story behind one of SpaceX’s wettest and wildest launches
Eric Berger    It looked like a giant smoke monster.
17  avril     22h26
Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC
Beth Mole    Between and , there was an average of cases per year. Last year’s tally was .
    19h30
Bodies found in Neolithic pit were likely victims of ritualistic murder
Jennifer Ouellette    One victim may have been hogtied alive in pit, à la Mafia style ligature strangulation.
    19h06
Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2
John Timmer    Study tracks the past costs of climate events and projects them into the future.
    14h09
A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS
Stephen Clark    I don’t think I’ve seen or heard, after my own research, any of these events occurring.
16  avril     21h10
Bogus Botox poisoning outbreak spreads to 9 states, CDC says
Beth Mole    All of the case have been in women, nine of whom were hospitalized.
    20h55
Studies reveal new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation
Jennifer Ouellette    Radiation damages their DNA; they’re just able to repair that damage very quickly.
    20h18
Second-biggest black hole in the Milky Way found
John Timmer    May help explain why we see so many of these monsters colliding.
    13h53
NASA says it needs better ideas on how to return samples from Mars
Stephen Clark    The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is losing its grip on managing NASA’s next flagship mission.
    11h30
How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun
Paul Sutter    Here are two options for future humans to keep us in the habitable zone.