agreed, how come this article doesn't link to any more serious publications?
I'm tired of dumb journalists using science to make a quick buzz. It's like that kid who had allegedly found a way to derive more energies by making solar panels in the shape of trees, it was complete bullshit.
Traditional media has awful citation conventions. Basically the journalist adds a vague source just to wash his/her hands in case the story turns out to be false. In this case an Australian paper refers to a British paper (without a link or an exact reference) and the story is about a German scientific publication. So this is third or fourth hand story, and you can just guess how much has been lost in translation.
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agreed, how come this article doesn't link to any more serious publications? I'm tired of dumb journalists using science to make a quick buzz. It's like that kid who had allegedly found a way to derive more energies by making solar panels in the shape of trees, it was complete bullshit.
Traditional media has awful citation conventions. Basically the journalist adds a vague source just to wash his/her hands in case the story turns out to be false. In this case an Australian paper refers to a British paper (without a link or an exact reference) and the story is about a German scientific publication. So this is third or fourth hand story, and you can just guess how much has been lost in translation.