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nature / science / space
Clearing Brain Waste Dramatically Improves Memory in Aging Mice
sciencealert.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
NASA Welcomes Gateway Lunar Space Station’s HALO Module to US - NASA
From Italy to Arizona: Gateway’s first habitation module takes a major step on its path to launch. A core component of Gateway, humanity’s...
nasa.gov
- 30+ days ago
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science
Saturn: Lord of the Rings - NASA
This false-color image of Saturn's main rings was made by combining data from multiple star occultations using Cassini's ultraviolet imaging...
nasa.gov
- 30+ days ago
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science
Surveys show full scale of massive seabird die-off due to Pacific Ocean heat wave
phys.org
- 30+ days ago
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science / technology
'Love hormone' oxytocin can pause pregnancy, animal study finds
Oxytocin, a hormone linked to bonding behaviors, might also help mice modulate their pregnancies. Someday, this line of research could improve our...
livescience.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
The chart of everything
Christmas Special This chart shows every object that has ever existed, and raises a question: is the universe a black hole? Some 13.8bn years ago,...
economist.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
How THC, the Psychoactive Compound in Weed, Gets You High
scientificamerican.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
A Mysterious Lifeform Has Emerged From the Bottom of a Lake That Should Be Entirely Frozen
“Lake Enigma” is living up to its name. Scientists thought that Lake Enigma in Antarctica was frozen from top to bottom. But, in 2019, they discovered...
popularmechanics.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / nature
Why Finland Is Still the Happiest Country in the World, While the U.S. Is At Its Lowest
Happiness is hard or maybe even impossible to truly measure. Yet every year, researchers try to do it anyway. The World Happiness Report, an annual...
zmescience.com
- 30+ days ago
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learning / science / books
Human memory is flawed. But a new book says that’s OK
The new book Memory Lane convincingly demonstrates how memories are like Lego buildings that are constantly being rebuilt....
sciencenews.org
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
Watch NASA’s Moon Capsule Violently Break Apart During Abort Test
The Orion crew capsule is designed to jettison away from the SLS rocket in a launch abort scenario. NASA put its Orion spacecraft to the...
gizmodo.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
19-year-old from the UK has the world's most advanced bionic hands controlled by her mind
supercarblondie.com
- 30+ days ago
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education / learning / music / science
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John...
openculture.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / books / nature / cool stuff
Mysterious Giants May Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists
Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to...
sciencealert.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
A New Predator Has Emerged From the Deepest, Darkest Part of the Ocean
What else is hiding down there? The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on...
popularmechanics.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Has Lasting Effects in People With Severe Depression
sciencealert.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with...
statnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / fitness / health / space
Cannabis Compound Discovered Inside Totally Different Plant
sciencealert.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
'Once-in-a-century' discovery reveals spectacular luxury of Pompeii
After lying hidden beneath metres of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a "once-in-a-century" find has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii...
bbc.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Scientists Drilled So Deep Into the Center of the Earth, They Knocked on the Mantle’s Door
popularmechanics.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
National Science Foundation eliminates hundreds of grants day after director resigns
usatoday.com
- 30+ days ago
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innovation / technology / science
AI comes alive: From bartenders to surgical aides to puppies, tomorrow’s robots are on their way
Humanoid robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Imagine a world where robots not only collaborate with us in factories but also greet...
venturebeat.com
- 30+ days ago
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technology / science
23andMe filing for bankruptcy as CEO Anne Wojcicki resigns
statnews.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / travel / business
Sunita Williams Almost Didn't Make It To ISS; Astronauts Share Terrifying Moment They Lost Control Of Starliner
mashable.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / technology
New biopsy technique found to improve prostate cancer detection
Researchers from around the UK, led by the University of Oxford, have found that a new way of performing prostate biopsies is better at diagnosing...
ox.ac.uk
- 30+ days ago
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innovation / science / space / nature
A Dyson swarm made of solar panels would make Earth uninhabitable, suggests study
As civilizations become more and more advanced, their power needs also increase. It's likely that an advanced civilization might need so much power...
phys.org
- 30+ days ago
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science / health
A Mirror Version of Life Could End All Life on Earth, Scientists Say
But we’re paying plenty of attention before that ever happens. For whatever reason, life formed on Earth with right-handed DNA and left-handed proteins. But...
popularmechanics.com
- 30+ days ago
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nature / science
Leopard Dined on the Shortest-Ever Early Human Relative, 2 Million Years Ago
Learn more about how Paranthropus robustus lived 2 million years ago, an evolutionary cousin to humans. Evidence of one of the smallest — and perhaps...
discovermagazine.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Transitioning from the classroom to the newsroom
borderzine.com
- 30+ days ago
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innovation / space / science
This is the most powerful acid on planet Earth
10 quadrillion time s more acidic than sulphuric acid, this is the acid to look out for. In movies, a strong acid is something that’ll...
sciencefocus.com
- 30+ days ago
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nature / science
Government Hires Crackpot to "Study" Nonexistent Link Between Vaccines and Autism
futurism.com
- 30+ days ago
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nature / science
Microplastic within humans now a health crisis: Interview with ‘Plastic People’ filmmakers
In a lab in Türkiye, researcher Sedat Gündoğdu zooms in on the image of a small red fiber. For the first time...
mongabay.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Burning grasslands to maintain them: How does it help biodiversity?
As grasslands get abandoned, controlled burning is discussed as a labor-saving method of keeping forests at bay. A Kobe University research team...
phys.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry
scientificamerican.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
The progression of basaltic–rhyolitic melt storage at Yellowstone Caldera
Nature - The resistivity structure of Yellowstone Caldera’s crustal magma reservoir indicates that the magma reservoirs are not eruptible at present...
nature.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Are there any animals that live in the clouds - or use them to hide from predators?
Do the clouds offer safe harbour to any animals? There don’t seem to be any animals that seek out clouds as a habitat. While...
discoverwildlife.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / nature
Scientists Reveal What Antarctica Would Look Like With No Ice
Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of...
sciencealert.com
- 30+ days ago
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fitness / science / wellness / health
World’s Oldest Person Had Cells 17 Years Younger Than Her Age. The Surprising Diet and Habits That Helped Her Live to 117
The supercentenarian’s gut health may hold the key to longevity....
zmescience.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
Why Do People Think NASA Has Discovered a 'Parallel Universe'?
If you've been scrolling through social media recently, you might have stumbled upon sensational claims resurging about NASA discovering a parallel...
newsweek.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Composer's Lab-Grown Brain Makes Music Years After His Death
extremetech.com
- 30+ days ago
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innovation / nature / science / space / cool stuff
Scientists Build Device to Generate Electricity Using the Earth's Rotation
Their experiment had a "controversial but intriguing" result. In a controversial experiment, a team of physicists investigated whether we could...
futurism.com
- 30+ days ago
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learning / science / nature
Fully AI-driven weather prediction system delivers accurate forecasts faster with less computing power
A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of time s faster and using thousands of time s less computing...
phys.org
- 30+ days ago
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education / fitness / health / learning / science / wellness
An 83-Year-Old Neurologist Reveals The 3 Quirky Tricks He Uses to Keep His Brain Sharp
A neurologist who’s still working and writing books in his 80s shares what he personally does to keep his brain sharp as he ages....
inc.com
- 30+ days ago
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learning / science
AI is transforming peer review — and many scientists are worried
nature.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / space
Scientists discover 'hidden waves' in diamond that could revolutionize quantum computing
CLEVELAND — A team of international researchers has just uncovered something remarkable about one of Earth’s most fascinating materials: diamond. By...
studyfinds.org
- 30+ days ago
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science
Curiosity discovers largest organic molecules yet on Mars
The Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie in October 2019 after drilling into the rock twice at its location. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The Mars...
astronomy.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Security camera captures sight — and sound — of meteorite strike
A home security camera captured the moment a meteorite slammed into a homeowner's walkway in Canada. It’s believed to be the first time that...
today.com
- 30+ days ago
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science
Elevated Dopamine in Cannabis Users May Explain Psychosis Risk
neurosciencenews.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / learning
Archaeologists Found an Ancient Tablet With 39 Letters That Don’t Belong to Any Known Language
Google Translate isn’t going to help here. Archaeologists uncovered a basalt tablet in the Bashplemi Lake region of Georgia with an unknown language carved...
popularmechanics.com
- 30+ days ago
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science / shopping
Earth's Rotation Is Slowing Down, And It Could Explain Why We Have Oxygen
sciencealert.com
- 30+ days ago
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