Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Crushing soda cans for science, why dolphins swim so fast, how urine helps mushrooms communicate, and more

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[RZetopan]

If I remember the story from the Christian Torah properly, there will eventually only be one apostle left standing.

I see a few sites refer to the Mycelium Network as "Earth's Natural Internet"* which of course makes me wonder if mushrooms share cat pictures.

* So it's a series of tubes.

Or even more likely, the number one thing on the internet, porn.

 

[Veritas super omens]

As far as I can tell, US English was actually designed to be close to achieving maximal ambiguity.
“I read that book”
“At the Bank of the river”
“I saw the person with a telescope”
And even in at least one of the articles:
"... videos of people using hydraulics to crush a variety of objects? That includes physicists at the University of Manchester"
etc.

So...English is a quantum language...

 

[FranzJoseph]

Those poor physicists! /s

Nah, they'll be perfectly fine – after all they are spherical, filled with incompressible fluid and frictionless, they'll just zoink right out of the hydraulic press at speed…