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- Biologists Get Morbidly Excited Over Discovering a Rare 'Whale Fall'A feast for the dark.... Read more »
- Gender-Specific Brain Cells Have Just Been Discovered Inside The Brains of MiceHere's what that means.... Read more »
- This Incredible Image Looks Biological But Is Actually a Strange, Exploded StarThe mystery of the lumpy supernova.... Read more »
- Antarctica's "Sudden Stratospheric Warming" Has Started Impacting AustraliaEastern Australia is burning.... Read more »
- New clinical research offers possibility of future rehabilitation for patients in minimally conscious or vegetative stateNon-invasive brain stimulation is to be trialled for the first time alongside advanced brain imaging techniques in patients who are minimally conscious or in a vegetative state.... Read more »
- Big data technique reveals previously unknown capabilities of common materialsResearchers have found a new way to optimize nickel by unlocking properties that could enable numerous applications, from biosensors to quantum computing.... Read more »
- Region, age, and sex decide who gets arthritis-linked 'fabella' knee boneThe once-rare 'fabella' bone has made a dramatic resurgence in human knees, but who's likely to have a fabella or two -- and why?... Read more »
- Variation in transplant centers' use of less-than-ideal organsIn 2010-2016, many US transplant centers commonly accepted deceased donor kidneys with less desirable characteristics. The use of these organs varied widely across transplant centers, however, and differences were not fully explained by the size of waitlists or the availability of donor organs.... Read more »
- Health care intervention: Treating high-need, high-cost patientsPatients with complex needs -- serious mental and physical health problems and substance use disorders -- flock to emergency rooms costing the health care system billions every year. A new study suggests a nontraditional approach to these patients can significantly improve their daily functioning and health outcomes.... Read more »
- Why Do Some People Need Less Sleep? It's in Their DNAU.C.S.F. researchers find a gene for flourishing with less shut-eye -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Vaginal Fluid Transplants Hold Promise but Raise Safety ConcernsA small study tested the approach for treating a common bacterial infection by restoring a healthy microbiome -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Trump's Border Wall Could Cause Flooding in TexasPlanned barriers along the Rio Grande could trap debris and send floodwaters into nearby communities -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Ship Freezes Itself in Arctic Ice to Study Climate ChangeResearchers trapped in the central Arctic Ocean for a year prepare to unlock secrets of the region’s changing climate -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- What Conservation Efforts Can Learn from Indigenous CommunitiesA major U.N.-backed report says that nature on indigenous peoples’ lands is degrading less quickly than in other areas -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- NASA engineer's 'helical engine' may violate the laws of physicsA NASA engineer has published plans for an engine that could accelerate a rocket without using propellant. But there are questions over whether it could work... Read more »
- Born in the big bang: How ancient black holes could save cosmologyExotic primordial black holes born in the moments after the universe began could be the key to solving some of cosmology’s biggest problems… if only we can find them.... Read more »
- Nobel prize in physics for discovery of exoplanet orbiting a starThe Nobel prize in physics has been jointly awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.... Read more »
- What the quark?! Why matter's most basic building blocks may not existQuarks are the subatomic particles thought to make up nearly everything we can see. Now it turns out they could be an illusion created by quantum trickery... Read more »
- A strange new type of crystal is made of fluid tied into knotsWeird liquid knots can self-assemble into crystals that are tough to untie, which could make for screens that use less energy to store and display information... Read more »
- Long strand of DNA from Neanderthals found in people from MelanesiaMost humans have small snippets of DNA inherited from ancient hominins like Neanderthals. Now the first study shows some people have long stretches of it... Read more »
- Google gets green light to access five years of NHS patient dataA freedom of information request by New Scientist shows that Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust will grant Google five years of historical data on patients... Read more »
- SpaceX plans to put more than 40,000 satellites in spaceDocuments show Elon Musk's firm SpaceX wants to launch another 30,000 satellites - more than triple the total amount humans have ever launched... Read more »
- Early mouse fetuses generated without sperm or eggs for first timeFor the first time, artificial mouse embryos have started growing into early fetuses, but we are still a long way off making babies without sperm or eggs... Read more »
- Archaeologists are racing to find a lost city before it's ransackedAncient tablets from the lost city of Iri-Sagrig are being recovered from smugglers. Now archaeologists are racing to trace it before it is completely ransacked... Read more »