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- Feeding Cows This Weird Pink Stuff Could Actually Help Fight Climate ChangeShockingly effective.... Read more »
- Here Are NASA's Wild Plans to Explore Time And Space For The Next 10 YearsWhat a time to be alive!... Read more »
- DNA Analysis Just Made The Eerie Mystery of Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake' Even StrangerWhy did hundreds of people go there and die?... Read more »
- A Huge, Mysterious Reservoir of Methane Has Been Identified Deep Under The OceanMind-boggling stuff.... Read more »
- Why Do Humans Hardly Engage in Cannibalism, if It's So Common in Animals?Would you eat a baby?... Read more »
- Vehicle exhaust pollutants linked to near doubling in risk of common eye conditionLong term exposure to pollutants from vehicle exhaust is linked to a heightened risk of the common eye condition age-related macular degeneration, or AMD for short, suggests new research.... Read more »
- Antibiotic use linked to heightened bowel cancer riskAntibiotic use (pills/capsules) is linked to a heightened risk of bowel (colon) cancer, but a lower risk of rectal cancer, and depends, to some extent, on the type and class of drug prescribed, suggests new research.... Read more »
- Lifestyle counselling and mobile application helped people change their lifestyleFinnish StopDia study yielded promising preliminary results in reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes. Lifestyle guidance in a group and application that supports the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits helped participants to reduce their waist circumference and improve their dietary habits. For example, their fruit and vegetable consumption increased.... Read more »
- Fecal transplants to help save koalasFecal transplants are helping expand koala microbiomes, allowing the marsupials to eat a wider range of eucalypts and possibly survive habitat loss. A study has analyzed and altered microbes in koalas' guts, finding that a fecal transplant may influence what species of eucalypt koalas can feed on.... Read more »
- A lack of self control during adolescence is not uniquely humanImpulsiveness in adolescence isn't just a phase, it's biology. And despite all the social factors that define our teen years, the human brain and the brains of other primates go through very similar changes, particularly in the areas that affect self-control.... Read more »
- A Once Common Gecko Is Vanishing from Parts of AsiaWith millions of tokay geckos trapped each year for use in traditional Chinese medicine, conservationists are calling for international protections -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- NASA Has Committed to a Rocket for the Europa Mission--and It Won't Be Ready on TimeAlthough alternatives such as SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy exist, the space agency is legally required to launch its Europa Clipper spacecraft on the behind-schedule Space Launch System -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- California's Mount Shasta Loses a Historical EruptionClues from an old map erase a false 1786 event and are part of a global volcanic-record cleanup -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Astronomers Spy a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron StarIf confirmed, the detection could be the first of its kind and would open new vistas on Einstein’s general theory of relativity and the physics of extreme matter -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Scientists Mull the Astrobiological Implications of an Airless Alien PlanetA rocky world devoid of atmosphere arouses debate over the habitability of the Milky Way’s most common star systems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... Read more »
- Quantum weirdness isn't real – we've just got space and time all wrongA radical new idea erases quantum theory's weird uncertainties – by ripping up all we thought we knew about how the universe works, says physicist Lee Smolin... Read more »
- A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universesIf we accept that information can’t travel faster than the speed of light, a quantum theorem seems to require many worlds that split when you make a measurement... Read more »
- What if there was no big bang and we live in an ever-cycling universe?There is no good evidence that our universe even had a beginning, a startling proposition that means the cosmos could collapse in about 100 billion years... Read more »
- Military-grade jet fuel made cheaply from plant waste instead of coalAn expensive superfuel normally reserved for missiles and hypersonic jets can now be made from crop waste instead of fossil fuels - and more cheaply to boot... Read more »
- No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond RussiaAn explosion at a Russian missile testing range led to local spikes in radiation, but it doesn’t seem to have spread to Europe as it did during the Chernobyl incident... Read more »
- High blood pressure in your 40s linked to smaller brain size at 70People with high blood pressure in their 40s seem to have smaller brains at age 70, suggesting that looking after your health may help prevent some forms of dementia... Read more »
- Is air pollution causing mental health conditions like depression?Evidence is growing that air pollution is linked to mental health conditions. But it's not clear yet how - and if - pollution may be affecting our brains.... Read more »
- An inside look at the NHS's plans to revolutionise healthcare with AIFrom spotting cancer and triaging patients to rearranging hospital appointments, artificial intelligence has a lot to offer the NHS, says Indra Joshi... Read more »
- We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glowMost of the closest exoplanets we’ve found orbit stars that can release flares of dangerous UV light, but those very flares might force life to evolve to glow... Read more »
- Cities are using walls of moss to tackle air pollution from trafficExpensive moss walls are the latest trend to combat air pollution in major cities, but can a few square metres of plant matter really solve the problem?... Read more »