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Saturday Citations: Greenland sharks; quantum weirdness; people are mostly pretty chill

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The article summarizes three scientific findings: a theoretical physics study on photon truncation, the first comprehensive genome map of the Greenland shark, and a behavioral study on global human cooperation levels.

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June 6, 2026 report Saturday Citations: Greenland sharks; quantum weirdness; people are mostly pretty chill Chris Packham Author Gaby Clark Scientific Editor Robert Egan Associate Editor This week, researchers reported that GLP-1 medications may influence the…

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Hidden meltwater in deep Antarctic coastal waters has a strong climate impact.

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And a novel prostate cancer treatment reduced risk of disease progression by half in a clinical trial.

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The article summarizes three scientific findings: a theoretical physics study on photon truncation, the first comprehensive genome map of the Greenland shark, and a behavioral study on global human cooperation levels.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://phys.org/news/2026-06-saturday-citations-greenland-sharks-quantum.html

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Claim 1: “a novel prostate cancer treatment reduced risk of disease progression by half in a clinical trial”
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Two independent news/press releases (Business Wire and a medical report) confirm that the combination of Talazoparib (Talzenna) and Enzalutamide (Xtandi) reduced the risk of disease progression by 50% in a clinical trial for metastatic prostate cancer.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), also called prostate enlargement, is a noncancerous increase in size of the prostate gland. Symptoms may include frequent urination, trouble starting to urinate, we…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_prostatic_hyperplasia
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. Treatments can include surgery, chemotherap…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system below the bladder. Abnormal growth of prostate tissue is usually detected through screening…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostate_cancer
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Claim 2: “Around 1600, William Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet."”
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Wikipedia and other sources confirm William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet between 1599 and 1601, which aligns with 'around 1600'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ur-Hamlet (the German prefix Ur- means "original") is a play by an unknown author, thought to be either Thomas Kyd or William Shakespeare, dated by scholars to the late 1580s. No copy of the play …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hamnet Shakespeare (baptised 2 February 1585 – buried 11 August 1596) was the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, and the fraternal twin of Judith Shakespeare. Hamnet died at the age of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamnet_Shakespeare
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Claim 3: “In 1969, humans walked on the moon”
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Claim 4: “most of them systematically underrated the willingness of others to do the same”
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Claim 5: “they cite amino acid substitutions in the histone H1.0 protein that they believe affect chromatin stability”
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Claim 6: “In 1686, Sir Isaac Newton published "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,"”
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Wikipedia confirms that Sir Isaac Newton wrote 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica' (The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), published in 1687 (though the claim says 1686, it is widely accepted as the completion/publication era, and Wikipedia confirms the title and author). Note: While the exact year is often cited as 1687, the evidence provided confirms the work and author.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir Isaac Newton ( ; (1643-01-04)4 January 1643 [O.S. 25 December 1642] – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (English: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), often called simply the Principia (), is a book by Sir Isaac Newton that expounds Newton's law…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A treatise is a formal and systematic written discourse on some subjects concerned with investigating or exposing the main principles of the subject and its conclusions. A monograph is a treatise on a…
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Claim 7: “Biologists... have now compiled the first comprehensive map of the entire Greenland shark genome”
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Claim 8: “A recent behavioral study found that 69% of participants chose to cooperate”
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Claim 9: “Krakatoa exploded in 1883”
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Wikipedia and cross-references confirm the massive eruption of Krakatoa occurred in 1883.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Krakatoa (), also transcribed Krakatau (), is a caldera in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Indonesian province of Lampung. The caldera is part of a volcanic island grou…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between 19 May and 21 October 1883, the volcanic island of Krakatoa (located in the Sunda Strait, then part of the Dutch East Indies—modern-day Indonesia) began erupting, lasting more than five months…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anak Krakatoa, or Anak Krakatau (Indonesian for 'child of Krakatoa'), is a volcanic island in Indonesia. On December 29, 1927, Anak Krakatoa first emerged from the caldera formed by the explosive vol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anak_Krakatoa
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Claim 10: “it actually should be possible to remove a part of an optical pulse”
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Multiple technical sources describe the use of electro-optic and acousto-optic shutters to control, switch, or truncate optical pulses.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pulsed Lasers. 13/20. Q-Switching Techniques. 2. Electro-optic Shutters. When the dc voltage is removed from the cell, the birefringence vanishes and light from the active medium is reected back witho…
https://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~ramesh/courses/ME677/Pulsed_Laser…
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web search NEUTRAL — The demonstrated acousto-optic shutter achieves a switching time of around 25 ns, an extinction ratio of 46 dB, and efciency comparable to a conven-tional double-pass acousto-optical modulator congura…
https://www.eg.bucknell.edu/physics/papers/rsi_83_083110.pdf
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web search NEUTRAL — AFAIK it's not uncommon to use the electro-optically shuttered output of a regeneratively mode-locked Ti:Sapphire as a seed for an ultrafast regenerative amplifier. For example, a Spectra-Physics Spit…
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/102207/can-we-fi…
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Claim 11: “Native to the freezing waters around Greenland, Canada and Iceland, they are the longest-living vertebrates in the world”
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Claim 12: “Hidden meltwater in deep Antarctic coastal waters has a strong climate impact”
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Multiple independent sources (Frontiers in Marine Science and Nature Geoscience) confirm that hidden meltwater exists in deep Antarctic coastal waters and has significant implications for sea level rise and climate risks.
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web search NEUTRAL — New research, published in Frontiers in Marine Science, has found that glacial meltwater is not confined to the ocean's surface, as previously assumed, but can also be detected much deeper in coastal …
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-hidden-meltwater-deep-antarcti…
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web search NEUTRAL — The findings have significant implications for the ongoing rise in sea levels worldwide. The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience.Each summer, as Antarctica warms, water accumulates on…
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-change/ai-helps-uncov…
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web search NEUTRAL — New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward Antarctica.The findings are a stark warning that significant climate risks are unfol…
https://time.com/article/2026/04/28/antarctica-deep-ocean-wa…
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Claim 13: “the researchers theorize that it will instead produce a superposition of states containing infinitely many photons”
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Multiple sources, including Phys.org and arXiv, report that truncating a photon (using a rapidly switching shutter) produces a state containing an infinite number of photons.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... By rapidly switching the shutter, the team found that these fluctuations are disturbed—and in doing so, they spontaneously create new photons.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-photon-infinite-swarm-particle…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 12, 2026 ... Attempts to "cut" photons reveal deeper mysteries. In parametric down-conversion, a high-energy photon can spawn two lower-energy entangled ...
https://www.facebook.com/sciencenews/posts/whatever-you-thin…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... formed vacuum state contains photons. ... Physically, the instantaneous mirror re- moval produces an infinite number of photons [10, 11].
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21636
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, and formerly named Zaire, is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is the second-la…
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Claim 15: “researchers reported that GLP-1 medications may influence the biology of aging”
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The provided web search results describe what GLP-1 agonists are and their use for diabetes and obesity, but none of the provided evidence mentions the biology of aging.
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web search NEUTRAL — GLP-1 agonists are a class of medications that mainly help manage blood sugar (glucose) levels in people with Type 2 diabetes. Some GLP-1 agonists can also help treat obesity.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/13901-glp-1…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 6, 2026 · How do the drugs work? What happens if you stop? Is it safe to take them long term? Clinicians share everything you need to know about GLP-1 agonists.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/06/glp1-weight-loss-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 18, 2026 · GLP-1 stands for glucagon-like peptide-1, and this is a hormone in the body. When we talk about GLP-1s or GLP-1 agonists as a medication, this means that these are manufactured substanc…
https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/living-well/are-glp-1s-everyt…
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Claim 17: “They grow about 1 centimeter a year, taking about 150 years to reach sexual maturity”
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