
New York Times - 21 hours 39 min ago
Chimp friendships are largely initiated by grooming. They are "popping pimples; they're looking at little scabs; they're scratching things," Dr. Lewis said, behaviors that release bonding hormones like oxytocin.

The Guardian - 23 hours 38 min ago
Suit alleges EPA has for decades failed under the Clean Water Act to address surface-water atrazine pollution A new lawsuit asks a federal judge to order the Trump administration to address widespread pollution from the hormone-disrupting pesticide atrazine which has regularly been found at levels that threaten wildlife and human health. The cancer-linked chemical is now contaminating nearly 25%, or about 860,000 miles, of all continental US rivers, according to a recent review of federal records...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 1 hour ago
California clean-air officials said they were disappointed by Los Angeles Times reporting on the state's Clean Bus and Truck Voucher Project.

Wired - 1 day 2 hours ago
The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 2 hours ago
My wife and I were hiking up a pain in the ass desert canyon the other day, hand over hand between bus-sized boulders, no trail to follow, when she said she was done and sat in the shade. She said feel free to poke ahead and when I did, within eyesight of her I found […] The post Life Keeps Walking appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Newser - 1 day 3 hours ago
For more than 100 years, one of the world's strangest books may have been confusing experts for a surprisingly simple reason: It's probably in the wrong order. A new study in Digital Medievalist argues that Yale's 15th-century Voynich Manuscript famous for its unknown "Voynichese" script and uncracked code was originally...

Science Daily - 1 day 5 hours ago
MIT engineers have built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, allowing it to swim and steer through water. The breakthrough could pave the way for tiny, self-healing biological robots capable of exploring fragile environments that ordinary machines cannot safely navigate.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 5 hours ago
Ancient seafloors, rich opal fields and 50,000 years of human history inland South Australia runs deeper than you imagined. The post Beneath the surface appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 9 hours ago
Public health officials in San Francisco reported a death associated with MGM-15, a lab-created and modified form of 7-OH.

Nature - 1 day 11 hours ago
Fighting fit.

Nature - 1 day 11 hours ago
Long-awaited results from phase III trial show a huge benefit in treating treatment-resistant melanoma.

Nature - 1 day 11 hours ago
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

PBS Newshour - 1 day 13 hours ago
When actor Christina Applegate revealed that she had been misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, it triggered not only an outpouring of empathy for her, but raised important questions about how often people are told they have the condition when they don't. William Brangham discussed why MS can be so difficult to diagnose with Dr. Michael Kornberg of Johns Hopkins University. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Wired - 1 day 13 hours ago
Although the case is considered exceptional, investigators are working to determine how the infection occurred and whether the pathogen played a role in the patient's death.

GeekSpin - 1 day 13 hours ago
NASA is sending a rover to investigate a hole on the Moon. The target is a pit in the Marius Hills region on the Moon’s near side, an area with a history of volcanic activity. NASA suspects the hole could be an opening into an underground lava tube. Here is all we know about the […] Read the original article here: NASA plans mission to explore suspicious deep hole on the Moon...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 15 hours ago
Over 10,000 peer-reviewed papers from two publishers breach journal policies about past collaborations between handling editors and authors, a new analysis has found. The work presented October 15 at the 26th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Frisco, Texas examined how often research studies published by journals run by the Public Library … Continue reading Thousands of research studies violate journal policies on collaborations between editors and authors...

Ars Technica - 1 day 16 hours ago
Ole Bielfeldt of Germany captured a microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper.

Newser - 2 days 4 min ago
Vincent van Gogh's most famous sky now has a likely date: July 22, 1889. A new study in Scientific Reports argues that The Starry Night captures the pre-dawn sky over France's Saint-R my-de-Provence on that morning, when a slim crescent moon, bright Venus, and the Hyades star cluster in Taurus would...