News and Links Digest (publ. 2025-03-28)

Botany

Scientists witness living plant cells generate cellulose and form cell walls

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

Heavy metals found in many baby formulas

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 promotes National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day

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