This study in serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) shows that the penis is used as a ‘copulatory arm’ rather than an intromittent organ, revealing a novel copulatory behaviour in mammals. DOI:[doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0)
This study shows that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the downregulation of active TE families extends lifespan. These findings link DNA activity to aging and opens up new possibilities in medical and biological research for health improvement and age determination....
I think the writers who wrote the article (not journal article) mixed it up with some other article because it didn’t make sense to me. Which is why I used the title of the research paper as the title of the post.
It was sometime in early 2022 that I found myself reading a few romance novels. I remember being mildly annoyed about how most of the books had instant chemistry/attraction as part of the plot. Then I suddenly found myself wondering, how do I feel if and when I feel attraction? I think I have probably never felt instant...
This was quite helpful, thanks. Last year I did read up a bit online and realised that I experience aesthetic attraction. From there I wandered into the demisexual sub on reddit and lurked there for a while. Even though I do experience some of what demisexuals experience, I have never had a crush on any friend, something demisexuals report quite frequently. Maybe I am somewhere on the asexuality spectrum, but don’t know where exactly. I will check out the links you mentioned and lurk around the asexuality communities.
I am so glad that lemmy is inclusive enough to entertain my questions in a general community. The answers that people have given here have definitely helped me in making some sense of attraction.
The last time I had feelings for someone… it was in 2012 and I realised it after having worked together for more than 2.5 years. However it was one sided and it hurt. That much I remember. However, I didn’t feel physical attraction. I remember wishing for a deeper emotional and intellectual connection. To be honest, since then I think I do feel a little scared of getting emotionally attached to anyone because it had hurt a lot.
For me I have found that a good friendship is having a deep intellectual and emotional connection with someone. However there is no attraction involved, no jealousy, nothing. The one time I had feelings for someone (which I realised after 2.5 years working with them) I found that I just liked everything about them: their smile, voice, how they talked, etc. This was the first time I even felt a little jealousy. And I also yearned for a deeper emotional and intellectual connection. This person wasn’t even a close friend. So friendship and love has some overlap for me, but are different.
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (Richard Freeborn translation) is an interesting character study of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist in the backdrop of the ideological differences between the “fathers” and “sons”. The “fathers” and “sons” in the title refer to the two different generations of the liberals and the...
This study reveals that inhibiting a specific enzyme, USP30, in a mouse model can protect dopamine-producing neurons. This finding halts the disease’s progression and opens the door to new therapeutic possibilities for the 10 million people affected by Parkinson’s worldwide....
I find myself checking out pretty often and just making myself feel bad about the state of the world, or killing half an hour on stupid games that I could 100% live without. This is probably pretty common, and I’m wondering what other people have found as a way to do more productive things with their phones in the downtime.
I’m noticing an influx of Reddit users today, maybe revolving around their weird bug they had today. I know this question pops up semi regularly, but for those just getting their foot in the door maybe we can help show them what else is out here on the Fediverse to help them get started....
Besides it’s a very important question for our privacy, I suspect some of my comments getting downvoted at set periods of time from other accounts. I don’t understand how the fediverse work and what I’m asking is who has vote logs? Who I can ask, if a bot, like on reddit, got dedicated to downvote every post from one user....
I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long....
I don’t do gaming and don’t understand or use Linux. But I have found lots of cute cats, dogs, beautiful photography on Mastodon. Also had occasional conversations about books. I would suggest that you consider keywords of what kind of content you want to see and browse hashtags of those keywords and interact with people.
By mulling over colliding bubbles on a cosmological scale, physicists are finding cause for speculation about fresh sparks of cosmic creation. It is possible, they say, that in the weeks after the big bang there was a second, similarly profound moment of transformation. This one may have spawned monstrous shadow particles...
Check out this link. It is a link to the study referenced in the article. It talks about this dark big bang concept and the range of hypothesised particles arxiv.org/abs/2302.11579
And speaking of crappy science journalism, this paper was not linked or referenced properly in the article. I did a search on dark big bang and this was the 2nd or 3rd result.
New research shows components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus remain in the gut of some long COVID patients, causing persistent inflammation, lowered serotonin levels, vagus nerve dysfunction, and neurological symptoms, shedding light on the mechanisms of how persistent inflammation after contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus can cause...
Cytoplasmic lattices (bundles of fibres floating in the cytoplasm) in mammalian egg cells seem to be storage sites for many proteins that are essential for the development of the early embryo. The discovery indicates that their absence, which can be determined by genetic testing, would point towards infertility of the eggs....
I don’t even see profile pics while browsing (using eternity)! Don’t see any point to adding a profile picture to an account which is more or less anonymous for all intents and purposes.
A simulation suggests that fine particles played a stronger role in cooling the planet and stalling photosynthesis after an asteroid impacted the Earth....
It is not obvious why selection should favor menopause or the continued survival of individuals that can no longer reproduce. The famous Grandmother Hypothesis had been used to explain the evolutionary significance of menopause. A new study conducted on the Ngogo chimpanzees community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda challenges...
It’s funny to think to what extent researchers have to go to gather data. I will draw your attention to a journal article I came across recently. I am linking to my post as well as the article itself. I think you will find it interesting. It’s called “hydrodynamics of defecation” published in Soft Matter.
Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry. The discovery challenges existing ideas about friction between solid surfaces and water and opens up a new avenue for studying droplet slipperiness at the molecular level. The new technique has...
Technique developed at the University of Michigan-histotripsy- provides a noninvasive alternative to surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer. Histotripsy works by using targeted ultrasound waves for killing tumor cells. Beyond tumor destruction, the technique may also activate the immune system against cancer...
Indirect evidence of ‘dark photons’ has been spotted in the shrapnel of thousands of particle-smashing experiments. This could provide a glimpse into the mysterious nature of dark matter — which seems to make up most of the mass of the universe but is almost impossible to observe, other than by its gravitational effects....
A team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long Covid, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with long Covid. They said that the biological pathway that their research outlines could unite many of the major theories of what causes long Covid: lingering remnants of the...
if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter
Is there a word for "kerning" but with spoken speech? (kopnij.in)
Like when you emphasize the wrong syllable, or the flow of the sentence was spoken really chunky....
These bats are the only mammals known to mate without non penetrative sex (sciencenews.org) en
This study in serotine bats (Eptesicus serotinus) shows that the penis is used as a ‘copulatory arm’ rather than an intromittent organ, revealing a novel copulatory behaviour in mammals. DOI:[doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.0)
Downregulation of transposable elements extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans (scitechdaily.com) en
This study shows that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, the downregulation of active TE families extends lifespan. These findings link DNA activity to aging and opens up new possibilities in medical and biological research for health improvement and age determination....
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (theverge.com)
[See also twitter](https://twitter.com/openai/status/1727206187077370115):...
What animal could you delete from existence with a mostly positive outcome for the planet? (kopnij.in)
And don’t say humans, too obvious, too cynical....
How does attraction feel like to you, mentally, physically and emotionally? (kopnij.in) en
It was sometime in early 2022 that I found myself reading a few romance novels. I remember being mildly annoyed about how most of the books had instant chemistry/attraction as part of the plot. Then I suddenly found myself wondering, how do I feel if and when I feel attraction? I think I have probably never felt instant...
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev: Portrait of a self-proclaimed Nihilist (kopnij.in) en
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev (Richard Freeborn translation) is an interesting character study of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist in the backdrop of the ideological differences between the “fathers” and “sons”. The “fathers” and “sons” in the title refer to the two different generations of the liberals and the...
Groundbreaking Discovery: Inhibiting Key Enzyme May Halt Parkinson’s Disease Progression (scitechdaily.com) en
This study reveals that inhibiting a specific enzyme, USP30, in a mouse model can protect dopamine-producing neurons. This finding halts the disease’s progression and opens the door to new therapeutic possibilities for the 10 million people affected by Parkinson’s worldwide....
What do you all do on your phones that isn't doom-scrolling or mindless mini games? (kopnij.in)
I find myself checking out pretty often and just making myself feel bad about the state of the world, or killing half an hour on stupid games that I could 100% live without. This is probably pretty common, and I’m wondering what other people have found as a way to do more productive things with their phones in the downtime.
What Lemmy communities would you like to share that we may not know about? (kopnij.in) en
I’m noticing an influx of Reddit users today, maybe revolving around their weird bug they had today. I know this question pops up semi regularly, but for those just getting their foot in the door maybe we can help show them what else is out here on the Fediverse to help them get started....
Who have logs of how users vote? (kopnij.in)
Besides it’s a very important question for our privacy, I suspect some of my comments getting downvoted at set periods of time from other accounts. I don’t understand how the fediverse work and what I’m asking is who has vote logs? Who I can ask, if a bot, like on reddit, got dedicated to downvote every post from one user....
The fediverse feels very lonely if you don't care about Linux. (kopnij.in) en
I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long....
A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins (newscientist.com) en
By mulling over colliding bubbles on a cosmological scale, physicists are finding cause for speculation about fresh sparks of cosmic creation. It is possible, they say, that in the weeks after the big bang there was a second, similarly profound moment of transformation. This one may have spawned monstrous shadow particles...
Serotonin Slump: The Viral Residue Connection to Long COVID Symptoms (scitechdaily.com) en
New research shows components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus remain in the gut of some long COVID patients, causing persistent inflammation, lowered serotonin levels, vagus nerve dysfunction, and neurological symptoms, shedding light on the mechanisms of how persistent inflammation after contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus can cause...
New explanation for infertility: eggs lacking a mysterious ‘lattice’ (nature.com) en
Cytoplasmic lattices (bundles of fibres floating in the cytoplasm) in mammalian egg cells seem to be storage sites for many proteins that are essential for the development of the early embryo. The discovery indicates that their absence, which can be determined by genetic testing, would point towards infertility of the eggs....
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Does anyone actually like 3d movies? (kopnij.in)
I’m rewatching Final Destination....
whats the story behind your profile picture (kopnij.in)
mines beau biden - no reason lol....
Mastodon Clients and Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and the Web (medevel.com) en
Dust Might Have Snuffed Out the Dinosaurs (nytimes.com) en
A simulation suggests that fine particles played a stronger role in cooling the planet and stalling photosynthesis after an asteroid impacted the Earth....
Chimpanzees Go Through Menopause, Too (nytimes.com) en
It is not obvious why selection should favor menopause or the continued survival of individuals that can no longer reproduce. The famous Grandmother Hypothesis had been used to explain the evolutionary significance of menopause. A new study conducted on the Ngogo chimpanzees community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda challenges...
Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale (scitechdaily.com) en
Researchers have developed a new mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces, described in a paper published in Nature Chemistry. The discovery challenges existing ideas about friction between solid surfaces and water and opens up a new avenue for studying droplet slipperiness at the molecular level. The new technique has...
Tumor-destroying sound waves receive FDA approval for liver treatment in humans | University of Michigan News (news.umich.edu) en
Technique developed at the University of Michigan-histotripsy- provides a noninvasive alternative to surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer. Histotripsy works by using targeted ultrasound waves for killing tumor cells. Beyond tumor destruction, the technique may also activate the immune system against cancer...
What are some underrated instances of the Fediverse? (kopnij.in) en
It can be Lemmy, Mastodon, Peertube, anything Fediverse-related!
Dark photons could explain high-energy scattering data (physicsworld.com) en
Indirect evidence of ‘dark photons’ has been spotted in the shrapnel of thousands of particle-smashing experiments. This could provide a glimpse into the mysterious nature of dark matter — which seems to make up most of the mass of the universe but is almost impossible to observe, other than by its gravitational effects....
Scientists Offer a New Explanation for Long Covid (nytimes.com) en
A team of scientists is proposing a new explanation for some cases of long Covid, based on their findings that serotonin levels were lower in people with long Covid. They said that the biological pathway that their research outlines could unite many of the major theories of what causes long Covid: lingering remnants of the...
A Question of Morality: A reflection on The Brothers Karamazov (kopnij.in) en
A question of Morality: A reflection on The Brothers Karamazov...
Include every detail (i.imgur.com) en
what youtube is doing is a slow easing of removing adblockers rather than an immediate one (kopnij.in)
if they outright forced us to stop day one there’d be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we’re like lambs to a slaughter