Steven Saus [he/him] @StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com

From 20 Sep: Deepfake audio has a tell and researchers can spot it - Enlarge Knk Phl Prasan Kha Phibuly / EyeEm via Getty Imagine the following scen... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/researchers-use-fluid-dynamics-to-spot-deepfake-voices/ #ai #audio-deepfakes #biz-&-it #deepfakes #science

From 16 Sep: Being a victim of rape costs an average of ,500 in medical bills, study finds - EnlargeGetty MediaNews Group Seeking emergency medical care in the US after a... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/being-a-victim-of-rape-costs-an-average-of-3500-in-medical-bills-study-finds/ #hospital #medical-billing #rape #science #sexual-assault

From 16 Sep: Study Reveals New Details on Hearing Restoration in Zebrafish - https://www.genomeweb.com/scan/study-reveals-new-details-hearing-restoration-zebrafish #biology #science #research

From 07 Sep: Scientists glean new insights into how tardigrades can survive dehydration - Enlarge / SEM Micrograph of a tardigrade, more commonly known as a water bear or “moss pig... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/scientists-glean-new-insights-into-how-tardigrades-can-survive-dehydration/ #animals #biology #molecular-biology #proteins #proteomics #science #tardigrades #water-bears

From 05 Sep: In New Zealand, conservation is buoyed by Indigenous knowledge - Enlarge / The northern kōura (Paranephrops planifrons), or freshwater crayfish, is both ec... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/in-new-zealand-conservation-is-buoyed-by-indigenous-knowledge/ #science #syndication

From 07 Sep: Efforts to ID Tulsa race massacre victims raise privacy issues - Enlarge / During the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the city’s African American Greenwood distr... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/efforts-to-id-tulsa-race-massacre-victims-raise-privacy-issues/ #ancestry-databases #dna #genealogy #genealogy-database #policy #science #tulsa-race-massacre

From 08 Sep: India and China clear needle-free COVID-19 vaccines - https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-china-0cfbcd23fa9ff0eb4e2217126a3475ae #covid-19 #science #health #china #india #asia-pacific #trending-news #business #world-news

From 08 Sep: Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/science/human-microbiome-bacteria.html #science #biology #life-sciences

From 25 Aug: Amazon to close US telehealth service as it shifts sector ambitions - EnlargeSOPA Images via Getty Amazon is closing its telehealth service, Amazon C... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/amazon-to-close-us-telehealth-service-as-it-shifts-sector-ambitions/ #amazon #healthcare #policy #science #telehealth #telemedicine

From 23 Aug: Turns out There IS Sound in Space, and it Sounds Like Your Worst Nightmare! - Most of us grew up with the commonsense wisdom that in space, no one can hear you scream. This know... https://www.themarysue.com/turns-out-there-is-sound-in-space-and-it-sounds-like-your-worst-nightmare/ #black-holes #nasa #science #space

From 12 Aug: Betelgeuse is bouncing back after blowing its top in 2019 - Enlarge / Artist’s conception in 2021 provided a close-up of Betelgeuse’s irregular surfac... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/betelgeuse-is-bouncing-back-after-blowing-its-top-in-2019/ #astronomy #astrophysics #betelgeuse #physics #science #stars #stellar-evolution #surface-mass-injections

From 10 Aug: It’s not just social media: Cable news has bigger effect on polarization - Enlargesimonkr Getty Images The past two election cycles have seen an explosi... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/its-not-just-social-media-cable-news-has-bigger-effect-on-polarization/ #cable-news #polarization #policy #science #social-media

From 28 Jul: A New Book Plunges into the Vast Diversity of the World’s Oceans Across 3,000 Years - Carl Chun, Polypus levis, from Die Cephalopoden (1910–15), color lithograph, 35 × 25 centimeters. Im... https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/07/ocean-marine-world-phaidon/ #art #books #coral #drawing #fish #history #illustration #installation #oceans #photography #science

From 30 Jul: Satellite images + lucky boat trip give new info on glowing “milky seas” - Enlarge / The boat trip went through an area of milky sea south of the lights of an island... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/milky-seas-a-bioluminescent-event-visible-from-space/ #biology #bioluminescence #oceans #science

From 29 Jul: US regulators will certify first small nuclear reactor design - Enlarge / NuScale’s reactor-in-a-can.NuScale On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory ... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-regulators-will-certify-first-small-nuclear-reactor-design/ #energy #nuclear-power #nuclear-reactor #nuscale #science #small-modular-reactor

From 29 Jul: DeepMind research cracks structure of almost every known protein - Enlarge / An image released by the EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute showing the st... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/deepmind-research-cracks-structure-of-almost-every-known-protein/ #science

From 27 Jul: Study sheds light on how dogs recognize their favorite toys - A new study found that dogs form a “multi-model mental image” of their toys. Specific breeds of dog... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/dogs-rely-on-multiple-senses-to-locate-their-favorite-toys-study-finds/ #animal-cognition #animals #biology #dogs #science

From 26 Jul: One week later, astronomers find a galaxy even deeper back in time - Enlarge / The James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver on its promises of discoveri... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/one-week-later-astronomers-find-a-galaxy-even-deeper-back-in-time/ #astronomy #cosmology #galaxy-formation #science #webb-telescope

From 19 Jul: When Randomness Is Not Random (But Still Is Random) - The world is deeply, deeply *strange*. And you can hold that strangeness in the palm of your hand. https://ideatrash.net/2022/07/when-randomness-is-not-random-but-still-is-random.html #philosophy #science

From 23 Jul: WHO declares monkeypox an international emergency as child cases raise alarm [Updated] - Enlarge / A negative stain electron micrograph of a monkeypox virus virion in human vesicu... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/childs-monkeypox-case-raises-alarm-as-who-mulls-declaring-health-emergency/ #cdc #infectious-disease #monkeypox #public-health #public-health-emergency #science #who