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Many doctors who have witnessed suffering in end-of-life care say they would not want any "heroics." But when the time comes, they might understand their patients' choices a little better.
SoCal stargazers can brace for a November packed with astronomical events, including the Taurids meteor showers and a close encounter between Jupiter and Mars.
An extremely rare matter-decay event opens up new possibilities for researching the physical world on scales 100 billion times smaller than an atom.
Contemporary Chihuahuas are descended from the Techichi, a small, barkless companion animal domesticated by the Toltec civilization.
With parts of region served by company in severe drought still, regulators give it six weeks to come up with action plan Repeated failures by South West Water to tackle leaks are putting customers at higher risks of losing water supplies as parts of the region remain in severe drought, regulators have said. In a warning to the privatised company that serves 1.8 million people across the south-west of England, the regulators said it had been failing to meet targets to reduce leaks and repair burst...
GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours agoDon't blink, or you might just miss Earth's newest natural satellite. Astronomers have officially confirmed that a tiny, near-Earth asteroid has been swept up by our planet’s gravity, granting us a rare and fascinating “mini-moon.” But this cosmic arrangement is strictly short-term: in just a few weeks, gravitational forces will fling our temporary celestial roommate […] Read the original article here: Earth has a new moon and it vanishes next month...
Nature - 1 day 3 hours agoPolicies designed to keep women in the workforce could be entrenching gendered parenting roles.
Beverly Whipple in 2007. Her book "The G Spot: And Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality," examined the concept of female sexual pleasure.
NPR - 1 day 5 hours agoNASA's Swift observatory is set to re-enter the atmosphere on Wednesday after two decades of gathering data.
"Our calculations suggest Heisenberg significantly underestimated the materials required."...
One of NASA's premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe's biggest explosions. The US Space Force confirmed the Swift Observatory's reentry near Indonesia, reports the AP . It was not immediately known how much of the 1.5-ton spacecraft burned up in the...
Preparing the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory for launch at the Kennedy Space Center in 2004. The 1.5-ton spacecraft is about the size of a pickup truck.
If you bump a spacecraft in orbit, it may start tumbling uncontrollably. To save a falling satellite, the rescuer must be incredibly steady and precise.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 8 hours agoA physics journal has removed a professor's name from an article at his university's request, because a coauthor works at a university in China that has been flagged for national security concerns. "The decision of the journal has been of course to consult the author," Carlo Rovelli, the editor of Foundations of Physics, a Springer … Continue reading U.S. university asks journal to remove professor's name from paper with coauthor in China...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 9 hours agoHydrogen cyanide was crucial for early Earth chemistry. A new study says comets almost certainly didn't deliver it like we'd previously thought.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 10 hours agoSome people might happily take credit for an article in Nature they did not write. That's not the case when the credited author is a cofounder of Retraction Watch and the attribution comes in a citation to an article that doesn't exist. The reference appeared in a November 2025 paper, published in DARU Journal of … Continue reading A year later, Springer Nature journal hasn't updated article with fake reference to our cofounder...
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 13 hours agoScientists chilled a single positron to its quantum ground state, chasing physics' biggest mystery.
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The famous problem asks whether a map can be filled in with only four colors such that the same color never borders itself. It has been solved with the help of computers, but some experts suggest an elusive, short answer is out there...
CalRecycle issued its final baseline number for plastic reduction in the state. It's even lower than the lowball the industry suggested this summer: 1/3 of the state's preliminary estimate.
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 17 hours agoIn job ads for news writers, you'll often see a reference to the ideal candidate having a "fast news metabolism". It means: How much information can you cram into your eye holes and how quickly can you digest it all into a compact pellet of 400 words? (I apologise for taking the metaphor to its […] The post Science (journalism) metaphors: Chronaxie appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Nature - 2 days 3 hours agoFor decades, conservation has worried about the risks of too many people. In some places, depopulation is the real threat.
Nature - 2 days 3 hours agoIt might seem counterproductive to put more people in nature, but sometimes human activity nurtures biodiversity.
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