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Space and Time

The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than astronomers had thought

On: February 23, 2023
History

2,400-year-old flush toilet unearthed in China could be one of the world’s oldest

On: February 23, 2023
History

How did humans first reach the Americas?

On: February 18, 2023
Animals

Medieval religious hermit buried in ‘extremely unusual’ position had syphilis

On: February 14, 2023
Animals

In rare attack, great white shark decapitates diver in Mexico. But why?

On: February 10, 2023
Health

Italian woman’s rare ‘foreign accent syndrome’ caused her to sound Canadian

On: February 10, 2023
Animals

Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool to swipe a snack

On: February 10, 2023
Space and Time

The Kuiper Belt’s dwarf planet Quaoar hosts an impossible ring

On: February 8, 2023
Animals

Fish can recognize themselves in photos, further evidence they may be self-aware

On: February 6, 2023
Animals

A newfound ‘croakless’ frog may communicate via touch

On: February 2, 2023
Physical and Tech

These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields

On: January 25, 2023
Physical and Tech

These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields

On: January 25, 2023
Animals

Lost remains of last known Tasmanian tiger found hidden in museum cabinet

On: December 15, 2022
Ticker
Florida airport monkeys are the descendants of zoo escapees
Here’s how lightning may help clean the air
Scientists Say: Metal
All hail ‘Emperor Dumbo,’ the newest species of deep-dwelling octopus
18 dead and hundreds missing in catastrophic Himalayan avalanche

LATEST

The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than astronomers had thought

On: February 23, 2023
In: Space and Time

2,400-year-old flush toilet unearthed in China could be one of the world’s oldest

On: February 23, 2023
In: History

How did humans first reach the Americas?

On: February 18, 2023
In: History

The Kuiper Belt’s dwarf planet Quaoar hosts an impossible ring

On: February 8, 2023
In: Space and Time

Nuclear fusion reactor ‘breakthrough’ is significant, but light-years away from being useful

On: December 14, 2022
In: Space and Time

Distant ‘hell planet’ with diamond core is the victim of a gravitational catastrophe

On: December 9, 2022
In: Space and Time

CHEMISTRY

This eco-friendly glitter gets its color from plants, not plastic

On: November 18, 2021
In: Chemistry

Minuscule arrangements in cellulose reflect light in specific ways to give rise to vibrant hues All that glitters is not green. Glitter and shimmery pigments are often made using toxic compounds or pollutive microplastics (SN: 4/15/19). That makes the sparkly stuff, notoriously difficult to clean up in the house, a

Scientists Say: Metal

On: May 17, 2021
In: Chemistry, Trending

New recycling technologies could keep more plastic out of landfills

On: April 29, 2021
In: Chemistry, EARTH

ANIMALS

  • Medieval religious hermit buried in ‘extremely unusual’ position had syphilis

    The unusual skeleton of a holy woman buried in a crouched position in medieval times has been identified. The skeletal remains of a medieval anchoress — essentially a religious hermit — buried in an unusual, crouched position at a church site in England died with syphilis and arthritis, archaeologists discovered.

  • In rare attack, great white shark decapitates diver in Mexico. But why?

    A great white shark recently decapitated a Mexican fisher as he was diving for shellfish. But what was the reason for the unusually gruesome attack? A fisher was recently decapitated by a 19-foot-long (5.8 meters) great white shark while diving for ax tripe, a scallop-like mollusk in Mexico. The tragic

  • Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool to swipe a snack

    Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans to use a tool kit Forget screwdrivers or drills. A stick and a straw make for a great cockatoo tool kit. Some Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana) know whether they need to have more than one tool in claw to topple an

  • Fish can recognize themselves in photos, further evidence they may be self-aware

    Self-awareness may be more widespread among animals than we once thought Some fish can recognize their own faces in photos and mirrors, an ability usually attributed to humans and other animals considered particularly brainy, such as chimpanzees, scientists report. Finding the ability in fish suggests that self-awareness may be far

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Physics and Technology

These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields

Gallium plus magnetism equals something straight out of Terminator 2 Shape-shifting liquid metal robots might not be limited to science fiction anymore. Miniature machines can switch from solid to liquid and back again to squeeze into tight spaces and perform tasks like soldering a circuit board, researchers report January 25

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These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields

Gallium plus magnetism equals something straight out of Terminator 2 Shape-shifting liquid metal robots might not be limited to science fiction anymore. Miniature machines can switch from solid to liquid and back again to squeeze into tight spaces and perform tasks like soldering a circuit board, researchers report January 25

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Large Hadron Collider switches on at highest ever power level to look for dark matter

The detector is set to run at its highest energies yet. The Large Hadron Collider has been turned back on today (July 5) and is set to smash particles together at never-before-seen energy levels. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Located at

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Scientists grew living human skin around a robotic finger

The advance brings Terminator-like cyborgs a small step closer to reality The Terminator may be one step closer to reality. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have built a robotic finger that, much like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular cyborg assassin, is covered in living human skin. The goal is to someday

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EARTH

Conservationists Promote the Annual Big Butterfly Count as Two-Fifths of British Butterflies Face Threat

In 2013, scientists said that around five out of the millions of invertebrates, including butterflies, were at risk of extinction. These beautiful creatures have shown signs of a significant decline in population and conservationists have been fighting for a law to be implemented to protect butterflies. The annual Big Butterfly

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Alien earthworms have spread to almost all parts of North America

Invasive worms, considered a major threat to native ecosystems, have been found in 97 per cent of areas for which there are records in North America As North Americans have busied themselves about their various concerns, unseen invaders have slowly been amassing beneath their feet. There are now more alien

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James Webb Space Telescope Set to Study Two Strange Super-Earths

Space agency officials promise to deliver geology results from worlds dozens of light-years away The James Webb Space Telescope plans to explore strange, new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail. The telescope’s scientific consortium has an ambitious agenda to study geology on these small planets from “50 light-years away”, they said

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Amazon nears ‘tipping point’ where rainforest could transform into savanna

The Amazon may be nearing a “tipping point.” If deforestation continues, the Amazon rainforest could reach a critical tipping point where most of it transforms into a dry savanna, a new study warns. The study, published Monday (March 7) in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that more than 75%

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HEALTH

Italian woman’s rare ‘foreign accent syndrome’ caused her to sound Canadian

A woman’s strange case of “foreign accent syndrome” left doctors unsure of its cause. A woman in Italy who went to the emergency room experienced a puzzling symptom: She suddenly began speaking in a Canadian accent even though her native language was Italian, according to a new report. The woman

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Weighted-blanket use may boost sleep hormone melatonin, small study hints

A small study links weighted-blanket use at bedtime to increased melatonin production. Using a weighted blanket at bedtime may boost the body’s production of the sleep-promoting hormone melatonin, a small study suggests. However, at this point, it’s unclear why the hefty blankets might increase melatonin levels and whether this significantly

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Woman who spontaneously vomited up to 30 times a day likely had rogue antibodies

A woman’s unusual vomiting episodes may be linked to an autoimmune disorder. A young woman experienced spontaneous vomiting attacks during which she would sometimes retch more than 30 times a day and heave up to 1.6 gallons (6 liters) over the full course of an episode. It turns out, the

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In First, Scientists Use CRISPR for Personalized Cancer Treatment

The “most complicated therapy ever” tailors bespoke, genome-edited immune cells to attack tumors A small clinical trial has shown that researchers can use CRISPR gene editing to alter immune cells so that they will recognize mutated proteins specific to a person’s tumours. Those cells can then be safely set loose

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TRENDING

Florida airport monkeys are the descendants of zoo escapees

By: research
On: May 21, 2021

Here’s how lightning may help clean the air

Scientists Say: Metal

All hail ‘Emperor Dumbo,’ the newest species of deep-dwelling octopus

18 dead and hundreds missing in catastrophic Himalayan avalanche

SPACE AND TIME

The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than astronomers had thought

Gamma rays reveal the galaxy’s star-making power The Milky Way is churning out far more stars than previously thought, according to a new estimate of its star formation rate. Gamma rays from aluminum-26, a radioactive isotope that arises primarily from massive stars, reveal that the Milky Way converts four to

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The Kuiper Belt’s dwarf planet Quaoar hosts an impossible ring

The ring lies outside a typical, mathematically determined distance from the small world The dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring that is too big for its metaphorical fingers. While all other rings in the solar system lie within or near a mathematically determined distance of their parent bodies, Quaoar’s ring

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Nuclear fusion reactor ‘breakthrough’ is significant, but light-years away from being useful

Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right direction from the government’s NIF reactor. Scientists have just announced a breakthrough in nuclear fusion ignition: For the first time the heart of a powerful fusion reactor has briefly generated more energy than was put

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Distant ‘hell planet’ with diamond core is the victim of a gravitational catastrophe

The planet 55 Cancri e, also known as the “hell planet,” appears to have been dragged closer to its sun’s equator due to a gravitational anomaly. Scientists studying a distant “hell planet” where clouds rain lava, the oceans are molten and the core is filled with diamonds have found that

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HISTORY

2,400-year-old flush toilet unearthed in China could be one of the world’s oldest

The toilet was found in the Shaanxi province’s Yueyang City Ruins and was likely used by high-ranking officials during the early years of China’s first unified empire. Archaeologists in China have discovered one of the world’s oldest flush toilets, a “luxury object” that was likely used by elite individuals just

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How did humans first reach the Americas?

During the last ice age, which route was taken by the first humans to reach the Americas, and did they travel by foot, boat or both? Humans first arrived in North America at least 15,500 years ago. Exactly how they got there, however, constitutes one of the longest-standing debates in

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What’s the world’s oldest civilization?

Did the first civilization arise in Mesopotamia, or elsewhere? Countless civilizations have risen and fallen over the millennia. But which one is the oldest on record? About 30 years ago, this question seemed to have a straightforward answer. Around 4000 B.C., the earliest phase of the Sumerian culture arose as

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Pottery, swords and jewelry: Rich Stone Age and early medieval graves found in Germany

The discoveries hint that humans occupied the region longer than locals thought. Archaeological treasures, including Stone Age pottery and medieval graves with swords and jewelry, have revealed a long history of human habitation near the Danube River in Germany. At the site, in the Geisingen-Gutmadingen district of Tuttlingen, in southwestern

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