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Space Daily
When a honeybee colony outgrows its hive it makes a genuinely democratic decision: scout bees fly out, inspect possible new homes, and 'campaign' for their favourite with waggle dances, lobbying harder for better sites — and only once enough scouts have - Space Daily

It might sound strange but a swarm of bees deciding where to live is perhaps one of the cleanest examples of a crowd making a good choice without anyone in charge. There is no leader, no vote-counter, no bee that surveys the options and issues a verdict.

Economy & General

Associated Press
Eager to work, teens find a frustrating summer job search - AP News

Finding a summer job is proving harder for many American teens. Federal data shows the share of 16- to 19-year-olds with jobs has fallen from roughly half in the late 1970s to about 3 in 10 today. Teens across the country say they’ve submitted dozens of appli…

KOIN.com
Portland metro area’s first In-N-Out set to open - KOIN.com

(KOIN) — The Portland Metro area’s first In-N-Out officially opens tomorrow. The Hillsboro location at 2498 N.E. Town Center Drive in the Tanasbourne Town Center will begin serving hungry customers starting at 10:30 a.m.

Tech, Health & Opinion

Nature.com
Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents - Nature

A large language model artificial intelligence agent operating in a sandboxed electronic health record system can autonomously take patient histories, order tests, interpret findings, diagnose conditions and propose treatments, outperforming experienced …

Hackaday
Commodore Unveils Linux Powered Flip Phone - Hackaday

Whatever happens with the new incarnation of the Commodore corporation, we’ll always remember the old one fondly. Well, we’ll remember certain of its products fondly, at any rate, if no…

Space Daily
The oldest solid material ever found on Earth didn't come from Earth at all — it was locked inside a meteorite that landed near Murchison, Victoria in 1969, and the stardust grains inside formed roughly 7 billion years ago, before the Sun existed. - Space Daily

The Murchison meteorite, which fell in Victoria in 1969, holds presolar silicon carbide grains. A 2020 study dated them by cosmic-ray exposure: most formed shortly before the Sun, the oldest about 7 billion years ago. How the dating works, and why 7 billion i…

Space Daily
Charles Darwin argued that the roots of human morality were not separate from animal life, and the surprise is what that does to civilization — manners, conscience, and restraint become not the opposite of instinct, but instinct complicated by memory, languag - Space Daily

The objection Darwin knew would be hardest to answer was not about bones or fossils. It was about conscience. As long as the moral sense could be held apart from animal life, the distance between human beings and other creatures remained intact.

Space Daily
Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that keeps time for roughly a billion years. - Space Daily

The uranium-238 electroplated onto the Voyager record cover really is a clock a finder could read. But with a half-life of 4.51 billion years it keeps time far longer than the 'billion years' usually quoted, which describes the disc's lifespan, not the clock'…

Science Daily
Humans may have hidden regenerative powers - ScienceDaily

Scientists have taken a surprising step toward unlocking regeneration in mammals, showing that the ability to rebuild complex body parts may not be lost after all—it may simply be switched off. Using a two-stage treatment, researchers redirected the body’s no…

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