
The Independent - 16 hours 50 min ago
Caffeine appears to increase brain's ability to respond to touch...

Wired - 17 hours 6 min ago
Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book How to Not Know, Simone Stolzoff explores whether treating that uncertainty with magic mushrooms can help people through it.

Los Angeles Times - 17 hours 6 min ago
Workers at Agresti Calf Ranch in the Central Valley also were spotted removing animals' horns, apparently without anesthesia.

Newser - 18 hours 26 min ago
Bizarre spiral wounds on dead gray seal pups in Canada aren't from sharks or boat propellers after all. A new study in Marine Mammal Science points the finger at cannibals: adult male gray seals preying on freshly weaned pups on Nova Scotia's Sable Island, the world's largest breeding colony of...

New Scientist - 22 hours 6 min ago
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the Earth's mantle, a sign of a rupture in the tectonic plates and the possible beginning of a new continental boundary...

Australian Geographic - 23 hours 10 min ago
Even As the world's oceans continue to get noisier with human-made sound, scientists have discovered pilot whales are having to 'shout' at the upper limit of their range in order to communicate. The post Pilot whales struggling to hear each other over ship noise appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Nature - 1 day 3 hours ago
Recent price hikes, usage limitations and unreliable outputs are causing some scientific researchers to think twice about using artificial intelligence.

Nature - 1 day 3 hours ago
Using AI coding tools can speed up your work, but there are plenty of pitfalls.

Nature - 1 day 3 hours ago
Genomics and experimental data suggest that an evolutionary arms race between cholera-causing bacteria and their viral predators shapes the disease in humans.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 4 hours ago
California passengers from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship have returned to the U.S. Infectious disease experts break down the potential risk.

PBS Newshour - 1 day 4 hours ago
Coral reefs are essential to the health of oceans, the food supply and to protecting the coast from storms. But as climate change pushes ocean temperatures higher, reefs are dying and bleaching events have put them at higher risk. Special correspondent Ben Tracy with Climate Central reports on an unlikely tool to bring reefs back from the brink. It's part of our series, Tipping Point. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

GeekSpin - 1 day 5 hours ago
Physicists have published new research exploring whether information could theoretically be transmitted backward through time, not by physically manipulating spacetime itself, but through quantum simulations that model such behavior, essentially revisiting a concept popularized by sci-fi films like Interstellar (2014). The study is centered around a concept called a closed timelike curve or CTC, a […] Read the original article here: Physicists say it’s possible to send messages to the...

New York Times - 1 day 5 hours ago
Cameron Hamilton campaigning in 2024 during his unsuccessful run as a Republican for a congressional seat in Virginia.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 8 hours ago
The booking season for New Zealand's always-popular Great Walks is starting to open, so make sure you get in early for that ultimate Kiwi hiking adventure. The post It's that time of year: Bookings open for New Zealand's Great Walks appeared first on Australian Geographic .

New York Times - 1 day 14 hours ago
Traditionally, experts have seen the relationship between remoras and manta rays as either commensal or mutualistic, but this arrangement may veer into the parasitic.

New Scientist - 1 day 15 hours ago
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island's ancestry...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 15 hours ago
While Elsevier outcompetes other publishers in terms of sheer volume, it also has the lowest retraction rate and highest rate of reinstating articles among nine top publishers of scholarly articles, a recent study has found. The study also found a tenth publisher to be an outlier in terms of reasons for retraction. "Every publisher has … Continue reading Elsevier retracts the least and reinstates the most, new analysis finds...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 15 hours ago
A genetic "cheat sheet" allows different species to display the same warning patterns.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 15 hours ago
Australia's longest and most productive river the Murray is at breaking point, and the people who love and depend on it feel like they're running out of time. The post Running the river dry appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Mother Jones - 1 day 15 hours ago
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Flooding across northern Michigan last month pushed rivers to record levels, testing the limits of the state's aging dams so severely that officials in one city nearly […]...

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 19 hours ago
This was first posted on November 17, 2017. The latest explanation of gamma ray bursts are that they’re massive stars going supernovae and collapsing immediately to black holes and in the process, aiming high-intensity jets at our skies. They’re still the brightest things in the universe, the brightness of a trillion suns, and they last […] The post Loving Explosions appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Newser - 1 day 23 hours ago
Citizen scientists poring over old NASA images have doubled the known population of a strange class of objects called brown dwarfs. NASA says a decade-long effort under its Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has turned up more than 3,000 previously unknown brown dwarfs gas balls that can be up...

GeekSpin - 2 days 2 hours ago
For centuries, humanity believed Earth had only seven continents, but scientists now say a massive hidden landmass nearly 1.9 million square miles wide has been quietly sitting beneath the South Pacific all along. Known as Zealandia, this mysterious underwater world has remained largely invisible beneath the ocean, with only small portions like New Zealand peeking […] Read the original article here: Scientists discover Earth has a hidden eighth continent...