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July 26, 2024
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July 24, 2024 — A study looks at the maximum possible sizes of dinosaurs, using the carnivore, Tyrannosaurus rex, as an example. Using computer modelling, experts produced estimates that T. Rex might have been 70% heavier than what the fossil evidence ...
July 22, 2024 — When people are having a conversation, they rapidly take turns speaking and sometimes even interrupt. Now, researchers who have collected the largest ever dataset of chimpanzee 'conversations' have found that they communicate back and forth using ...
July 21, 2024 — Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively, have evidence of oceans beneath their crusts. A NASA experiment suggests -- if these oceans support life -- signatures of that life in the form of organic molecules (like amino ...
July 16, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their ...
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July 26, 2024 — New therapy uses synthetic nanofibers to mimic the natural signaling of a protein that is crucial for cartilage formation and maintenance. Researchers found that intensifying the motion of molecules ...
July 26, 2024 — Scientists have identified an automatic behavior in flies that helps them assess wind conditions -- its presence and direction -- before deploying a ...
July 26, 2024 — Lampreys are one of only two living jawless vertebrates Jaws are formed by a key stem cell population called the neural crest New research reveals the gene regulatory changes that may explain ...
July 26, 2024 — Engineering researchers have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) ...
July 22, 2024 — Researchers have found a new way to identify genetic targets useful for control of mosquito populations, potentially offering an alternative to insecticides. Their study focused on the genetic basis ...
July 25, 2024 — Danish Tycho Brahe was most famous for his contributions to astronomy. However, he also had a well-equipped alchemical laboratory where he produced ...
July 25, 2024 — An experimental drug originally developed to treat cancer may help clear HIV from infected cells in the brain, according to a new study. By targeting infected cells in the brain, drug may clear virus ...
July 25, 2024 — An international team of researchers has found that nitrogen emissions from fertilizers and fossil fuels have a net cooling effect on the climate. ...
July 25, 2024 — Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going ...
July 25, 2024 — A new study finds disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier ...
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July 25, 2024 — Engineers discovered that when the aluminum in soda cans is purified and mixed with seawater, the solution produces hydrogen -- which can power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon ...
July 25, 2024 — A noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test that can be done at home could reduce the risk of colorectal cancer death by 33%, according to a new ...
July 25, 2024 — Over the last century, a once-deadly mosquito-borne virus has evolved so that it no longer sickens humans. New research shows that changes in the virus's ability to target human cells paralleled ...
July 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group recently ...
July 24, 2024 — The team verified that microbes found in Yellowstone National Park hot springs produce methane to ...
July 24, 2024 — Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal ...
July 24, 2024 — New research underscores the close relationship between dust plumes transported from the Sahara Desert in Africa, and rainfall from tropical cyclones along the U.S. Gulf Coast and ...
July 24, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a novel pain control pathway that links the cingulate cortex in the front of the brain, through the pons region of the brainstem, to cerebellum in the back of the ...
July 24, 2024 — Researchers have captured what they believe is the first ever video of a shark or any large marine animal being struck by a ...
July 24, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that the serrated edges of Komodo dragons' teeth are tipped with iron. The study gives new insight into how Komodo dragons keep their teeth razor-sharp and may provide ...
July 24, 2024 — A tunable metasurface can control optical light in space and time, offering a path toward new ways of wirelessly and securely transmitting large amounts of data both on Earth and in ...
July 24, 2024 — Chemists have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a 'golden' ...
July 24, 2024 — Researchers have been tracking a 26-foot endangered whale shark -- named 'Rio Lady' -- with a satellite transmitter for more than four years -- a record for whale sharks and one of the ...
July 24, 2024 — A new analysis of rocks thought to be at least 2.5 billion years old helps clarify the chemical history of Earth's mantle -- the geologic layer beneath the planet's crust. The findings hone ...
July 24, 2024 — Resulting atlas of the aging human brain holds molecular insights into the brain's vulnerability and ...
July 24, 2024 — Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the ...
July 24, 2024 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star in the nearby triple system Epsilon Indi. The planet is a cold super-Jupiter exhibiting a ...
July 24, 2024 — A new study provides evidence that a spillover of avian influenza from birds to dairy cattle across several U.S. states has now led to mammal-to-mammal transmission -- between cows and from cows to ...
July 23, 2024 — The insecticide-treated bed nets and insecticide sprays that were so effective in preventing mosquito bites -- and therefore malaria -- are increasingly viewed as the causes of household pest ...
July 23, 2024 — Palaeontologists are helping resolve the evolution and ecology of Odaraia, a taco-shaped marine animal that lived during the Cambrian period. Fossils reveal Odaraia had mandibles. Palaeontologists ...
Thursday, July 25, 2024
- A Recipe for Zero-Emissions Fuel: Soda Cans, Seawater, and Caffeine
- New Study Shows at-Home Colon Cancer Screening Test Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer Death, as Effective as Screening Colonoscopy
- How Evolution Tamed a Deadly Virus and Why We Should Still Worry
- Spin Qubits Go Trampolining
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- New Groups of Methane-Producing Organisms in Yellowstone
- Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision
- How Saharan Dust Regulates Hurricane Rainfall
- Neuroscientists Discover Brain Circuitry of Placebo Effect for Pain Relief
- Researchers Record Images and Data of a Shark Experiencing a Boat Strike
- Komodo Dragons Have Iron-Coated Teeth to Rip Apart Their Prey
- Nanoscale Device Simultaneously Steers and Shifts Frequency of Optical Light, Pointing the Way to Future Wireless Communication Channels
- How Rembrandt Combined Special Pigments for Golden Details of The Night Watch
- Whale Shark Tracked for Record-Breaking Four Years
- New Study Supports Stable Mantle Chemistry Dating Back to Earth's Early Geologic History and Over Its Prodigious Evolution
- Building a Molecular Brain Map to Understand Alzheimer's Disease
- Trees Reveal Climate Surprise -- Bark Removes Methane from the Atmosphere
- Images of Nearest 'super-Jupiter' Open a New Window to Exoplanet Research
- New Study Confirms Mammal-to-Mammal Avian Flu Spread
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
- The Unintended Consequences of Success Against Malaria
- Taco-Shaped Arthropod Fossils Gives New Insights Into the History of the First Mandibulates
- Butterflies Accumulate Enough Static Electricity to Attract Pollen Without Contact
- Drawing Water from Dry Air
- 3D-Printed Microstructure Forest Facilitates Solar Steam Generator Desalination
- Hunter-Gatherers Kept an 'orderly Home' In the Earliest Known British Dwelling
Monday, July 22, 2024
- Tropical Plant Species Are as Threatened by Climate Change as Widely Feared, Study Confirms
- Astrophysicists Uncover Supermassive Blackhole/dark Matter Connection in Solving the 'final Parsec Problem'
- Development of 'living Robots' Needs Regulation and Public Debate
- Converting Captured Carbon to Fuel: Study Assesses What's Practical and What's Not
- Breakthrough in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
- Boosting Fruit Intake During Midlife Can Ward Off Late-Life Blues
- An Over Or Under-Synchronized Brain May Predict Psychosis
- Smell of Human Stress Affects Dogs' Emotions Leading Them to Make More Pessimistic Choices
- Male Elephants Signal 'let's Go' With Deep Rumbles
- Are AI-Chatbots Suitable for Hospitals?
- Birds Need Entertainment During Avian Flu Lockdowns
- Scientists Use AI to Predict a Wildfire's Next Move
- Deep-Ocean Floor Produces Its Own Oxygen
- Team Develops Safe and Long-Cyclable Lithium Metal Battery for High Temperatures
Friday, July 19, 2024
- Waste Styrofoam Can Now Be Converted Into Polymers for Electronics
- New Snake Discovery Rewrites History, Points to North America's Role in Snake Evolution
Thursday, July 18, 2024
- Good Timing: Study Unravels How Our Brains Track Time
- Another Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered at the Center of Our Galaxy
- Switching Off Inflammatory Protein Leads to Longer, Healthier Lifespans in Mice
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Microbes Found to Destroy Certain 'forever Chemicals'
- Evidence for Butchery of Giant Armadillo-Like Mammals in Argentina 21,000 Years Ago
- New Antidote for Cobra Bites Discovered
- Ant Insights Lead to Robot Navigation Breakthrough
- Soft, Stretchy 'jelly Batteries' Inspired by Electric Eels
- Research Tracks 66 Million Years of Mammalian Diversity
- Want to Spot a Deepfake? Look for the Stars in Their Eyes
- Paleolithic Diets Are Not Without Risks
- Scientists Define New Type of Memory Loss in Older Adults
- Cuttlefish Can Form False Memories, Too
- Astronomers Spot a 'highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter
- Psilocybin Generates Psychedelic Experience by Disrupting Brain Network
- Forests Endure as Carbon Sink Despite Regional Pressures
- Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory
- New Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy Offers Hope
- Llama Nanobodies: A Breakthrough in Building HIV Immunity
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- Scientists Find That Small Regions of the Brain Can Take Micro-Naps While the Rest of the Brain Is Awake and Vice Versa
- Scientists Develop New Artificial Intelligence Method to Create Material 'fingerprints'
- Nature-Based Solutions to Disaster Risk from Climate Change Are Cost Effective
- How Astronomers Are Using Pulsars to Observe Evidence of Dark Matter
- Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions
- New Analysis of Cassini Data Yields Insights Into Titan's Seas
- Bizarre 'garden Sprinkler-Like' Jet Is Spotted Shooting out of Neutron Star
Monday, July 15, 2024
- New Research Demonstrates Potential for Increasing Effectiveness of Popular Diabetes, Weight-Loss Drugs
- NASA's Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World
- Scorching Storms on Distant Worlds Revealed
- JWST Unveils Stunning Ejecta and CO Structures in Cassiopeia A's Young Supernova
- New Geological Datings Place the First European Hominids in the South of the Iberian Peninsula 1.3 Million Years Ago
- Early Life Antibiotic Increases Risk of Asthma: Providing Clues to a Potential Prevention Adult Asthma
- Cosmic Wrestling Match
- Widespread Practice Among Athletes Harms Both Performance and Health
Friday, July 12, 2024
- With Gene Editing, Mice With a Form of Inherited Deafness Can Hear Again
- All Stem Cell Therapies Are Not Created Equal
- Insight Into One of Life's Earliest Ancestors Revealed in New Study
- How the 'heart and Lungs' Of a Galaxy Extend Its Life
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Forest Carbon Storage Has Declined Across Much of the Western U.S., Likely Due to Drought and Fire
- 'A History of Contact': Geneticists Are Rewriting the Narrative of Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans
- A Stealth Fungus Has Decimated North American Bats but Scientists May Be a Step Closer to Treating White-Nose Syndrome
- Muscle Machine: How Water Controls the Speed of Muscle Contraction
- Hydrogen Flight Looks Ready for Take-Off With New Advances
- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxy Tracked Using Stellar Motions
- First Ever 3D Reconstruction of 52,000-Year-Old Woolly Mammoth Chromosomes Thanks to Serendipitously Freeze-Dried Skin
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- Creativity Starts in the Cradle, New Research Shows
- A New Species of Extinct Crocodile Relative Rewrites Life on the Triassic Coastline
- Combination Treatment Can Increase Human Insulin-Producing Cells in Vivo
- Lion With Nine Lives Breaks Record With Longest Swim in Predator-Infested Waters
- Mars Likely Had Cold and Icy Past, New Study Finds
- Prime Editing Efficiently Corrects Cystic Fibrosis Mutation in Human Lung Cells
- A New Twist on Artificial 'muscles' For Safer, Softer Robots
- Research Reveals the Most Complete Dinosaur Discovered in the UK in a Century
- A Breakthrough on the Edge: One Step Closer to Topological Quantum Computing
- The Origins of Dark Comets
- The Gulf Stream Is Wind-Powered and Could Weaken from Climate Change
- The Molecule That Could Alleviate Stroke-Related Brain Injury
- Scientists Discover a Cause of Lupus and a Possible Way to Reverse It
- Big Gain in Battle Against Harmful Bacteria
- The Plague May Have Caused the Downfall of the Stone Age Farmers