Episode #988

Episode #988

News Items

• Ultraprocessed Foods
• Artemis Space Suits
• Interstellar Clouds
• Prebiotic Soda
• Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Researchers unveiled a new computer modeling system of a living cell that is 1 million times faster than existing simulations. https://news.ku.edu/news/article/researchers-in-us-ukraine-simulate-cell-activity-at-breathtaking-timescales

• Item #2 Fiction

  For the first time physicists report they have been able to isolate true magnetic monopoles.https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.226705

• Item #3 Science

  NASA recently successfully tested their new communications link to the ISS, which was able to transmit data up and down at 1.2 gigabits per second. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1048045

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

‘Understand well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand.’ Ada Lovelace