News and Links Digest (publ. 2025-03-28)
Botany
Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls | ScienceDaily
Mutualism among tress and fungi
Hidden allies: Trees and fungi | ScienceDaily
Astronomy
Galaxy is too small for theory
Small, faint and 'unexpected in a lot of different ways': Astronomers make galactic discovery | ScienceDaily
This dwarf galaxy, named Andromeda XXXV and located roughly 3 million light-years away, is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies evolve in different cosmic environments and survive different epochs of the universe.
"There are so many things that we still need to learn -- even about what's near to us -- in terms of galaxy formation, evolution and structure before we can reverse engineer the history of the universe and understand how we came to be where we are today."
Oxygen detection in distant galaxy defies theory
Oxygen discovered in most distant known galaxy | ScienceDaily
DESI results force rethinking dark energy
New DESI results strengthen hints that dark energy may evolve | ScienceDaily
Waste and fraud
Inside The Now-Shuttered Federal Agency Where Employees Lived ‘Like Reigning Kings’
Musk Reveals Shocking Cases Of Fraud Found At Small Business Administration
EXCLUSIVE: Report Reveals Planned Parenthood CEOs ‘Staggering’ Salaries
NPR CEO Implodes
‘DOGE Meets HHS’: RFK Jr. To Terminate 20,000 Bureaucrats, Restructure Department
Trans Mice And Arab ‘Sesame Street’: Trump Goes Through Laundry List Of Absurd Spending DOGE Found
DOGE Says $4.7 Trillion In Treasury Payments Missing Code To Trace Where Money Went
Lee Zeldin Reveals EPA Found Unprecedented Scheme Biden Admin Used To Funnel Money To Leftists
$375 Billion EPA Slush Fund Gave Money To Charity Groups Created Months Earlier
Jew Hatred, Terrorism
Barnard Anti-Israel Protesters Take Over Buildings, Disrupt Classes As Bibas Family Laid To Rest
First Phase of Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Concludes After Israel Identifies Four Hostage Bodies
Meet the pro-CCP Marxist revolutionary group behind the Mahmoud Khalil protests | Just The News
Chicago PD Still Hasn’t Disciplined Cop Who Pled Guilty To Vandalizing Rabbi’s Car
Chicago PD Concludes Investigation Into Cop Who Pled Guilty To Vandalizing Rabbi’s Car
Nutrition, Health
Arguments that tobacco products generally are bad for cardio health
How using cigars, pipes or smokeless tobacco can harm your heart
FDA increases testing for heavy metals in baby formula
Sugar water bad for mice
Chronic sucrose consumption in mice reveals organ-specific metabolic disruptions
Article advocating eating chili during pregnancy
Could eating chili during pregnancy help lower the risk of gestational diabetes? A study says it's possible
More research on poor diet and pregnancy
Mother's high-fat diet can cause liver stress in fetus | ScienceDaily
Walsh on Pfizer interview scandal, big pharma advertising
All The Reasons Why Big Pharma Commercials Should Be Banned
Abortion
Horror Story of botched late-term abortion
Botched Late-Term Abortion Left Woman Hospitalized With Baby Parts Inside, Woman’s Lawsuit Says
Ben & Jerry’s Demolished On X For Post Praising Abortion Providers
Father gives his life to save son from drowning
7 Sons Lay Hero Dad to Rest – CERC