Episode #1042

Episode #1042

News Items

• Vaccinating the World
• How Children vs AI Acquire Language
• Vera Rubin Observatory
• Visible Nova
• Effects of Chat GPT on the Brain

Science or Fiction [ Show Answers ]

• Item #1 Science

  Scientists have discovered a new organelle inside human cells they are calling the hemifusome. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59887-9

• Item #2 Science

  Researchers have been able to genetically engineer immune cells to produce a protein that induces long term dormancy in HIV. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu8014

• Item #3 Fiction

  A recent graph of marine biomass over time shows that total biomass is mostly stable over geological time, punctuated by mass extinctions and later return to the longer term baseline. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)00735-3

Skeptical Quote of the Week.

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” – Werner Heisenberg