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Popular Mechanics - 16 hours 40 min agoThe discovery of a new tektite-strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact but geologists have yet to find the crater.
A mysterious ocean sound was recorded off Bermuda in the 1940s. Scientists finally uncover the truth
The preserved recording was discovered last year and it could unlock secrets about the ocean...
With the Trump administration's attacks on so-called woke AI it is becoming even harder to make the technology we use fairer and more diverse. Leading voices are speaking out, reports Catherine de Lange...
Engineers have uncovered the mathematical rules fireflies follow to sync up their flashes.
From World War II to the Apollo era, the space shuttle program and today's privately developed commercial rockets, the landscape of spaceflight has changed dramatically.
Archaeologists scouring a Polish forest say they've finally tracked down a medieval town that vanished from the map centuries ago. Using old documents, maps, fieldwork, and a recent geophysical survey, researchers with the Relicta Foundation have identified massive earthworks and an 18-foot-deep moat as the long-lost town of Stolzenberg, near...
An ecological survey has found 109 nightjar territories in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire.
"So many similarities to the impact that created the Earth and Moon."...
What 300 million volts do to the body and mind...
The biosphere transmits data 9 orders of magnitude faster than the technosphere. A new class of nanophotonic tools is beginning to close that gap. In this webinar, Prof. Dionne will present VINPix: Si-photonic resonators with high-Q factors (thousands to millions), subwavelength mode volumes, and densities exceeding 10M/cm . Combined with acoustic bioprinting and AI, they may enable detection of multiomic signatures genes, proteins, and metabolites on a single chip at previously unattainable rates...
Dr. Goddard at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in the 1920s.
A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it's the oldest such recording known. The song is that of a humpback whale, a marine giant beloved by whale watchers for its docile...
Last Word On Nothing - 22 hours 10 min agoDid you ever have to memorize the prologue to The Canterbury Tales? I did for high school English class, spring semester of senior year. I was cranky about it why do we have to recite this stuff? but as with most things I didn’t want to learn, I'm glad I did. Every springtime I think of the […] The post In Praise of Secular Saints appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Andrew Williamson, who farms near Bridgnorth, says he is concerned how the Iran war is affecting prices.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 1 hour agoThe University of Melbourne has opened a formal investigation into the prominent Australia-based education researcher John Hattie, backtracking on a decision months ago that concerns about his work didn't warrant further scrutiny. The investigation, confirmed in a letter seen by Retraction Watch, was triggered by allegations made by Stephen Vainker, a teacher and former doctoral … Continue reading University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 2 hours agoIf you or I see people kissing, we likely think, That's sweet.' But to evolutionary biologists, a kiss leads directly to a minefield of questions: why do we kiss? Why do only 90 per cent of humans kiss? When did kissing start? And more! The post Why do humans (and other animals) kiss? appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Australian Geographic - 1 day 2 hours agoRecent crocodile sightings in floodwaters in the Northern Territory have prompted widespread concern, particularly in the town of Katherine and along the Daly River. The post What we know about croc numbers in the NT after surge in floodwater sightings appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Nature - 1 day 6 hours agoGraduate students increasingly use artificial-intelligence tools to draft, code and search but many fear it could erode the very skills a doctorate is meant to build.
Nature - 1 day 6 hours agoInsulin resistance (IR), a primary precursor to type 2 diabetes, is characterized by impaired insulin action in tissues1. However, diagnostic methods remain expensive and inaccessible, which hinders early intervention2,3. Here we present the WEAR-ME study, a large, remotely conducted study of IR (n = 1,165 participants; median body mass index (BMI) = 28 kg m−2, median age = 45 years, median haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) = 5.4%) that uses...
Nature - 1 day 6 hours agoAn exemplary book gets much right, but misses the point that the nation's tech dominance has more to do with globalization than with policy choices.
A plume of smoke from Israeli-U. S. airstrikes on Tehran on March 2.
Mother Jones - 1 day 18 hours agoThis story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nature is slowing down, and its ability to regenerate is failing in the face of climate change, according to the authors of a new analysis of the speed of species turnover in ecosystems across the world. The finding comes as […]...
The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and land safely.
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