
Newser - 1 day 4 hours ago
Bumblebee queens have a survival trick that sounds impossible: They can apparently ride out a week underwater. A lab mishap at Ontario's University of Guelph led to the discovery, detailed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal , after condensation flooded soil tubes holding common eastern bumblebee queens in...

The Independent - 1 day 4 hours ago
Study offers simple solution to rid oneself of bedbugs...

New Scientist - 1 day 11 hours ago
In a randomised trial, men who experience premature ejaculation benefitted from using an app to learn techniques for extending intercourse...

Nature - 1 day 11 hours ago
The new five-year plan calls for more original scientific research to facilitate the country's bid for self-reliance.

PBS Newshour - 1 day 12 hours ago
Once a relatively obscure class of drugs used for people with diabetes, GLP-1s have now shown an impressive ability to treat obesity, which affects over 100 million Americans. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores the great promise of the drugs and the potential concerns surrounding them with Dr. Jody Dushay, Dr. Rekha B. Kumar, Dr. Anna Lembke and Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

Ars Technica - 1 day 13 hours ago
When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short.

New Scientist - 1 day 19 hours ago
Simulations of Australopithecus hominins' anatomy suggest that when they gave birth, they may have exerted tremendous pressure on their pelvic floors, putting them at risk of tearing...

Ars Technica - 1 day 19 hours ago
Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 19 hours ago
Springer Nature has launched a new agriculture journal under the troubled Cureus brand. As part of its launch, the publisher invited at least one researcher with irrelevant specialities to join its editorial board, Retraction Watch has learned. The new journal comes after Clarivate's Web of Science delisting the original and long-embattled Cureus Journal of Medical … Continue reading Embattled journal brand mistakenly invites out-of-scope researchers to join board...

New Scientist - 1 day 21 hours ago
A trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism seems able to predict one thing will follow another, hinting that such associative learning emerged long before multicellular nervous systems...

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 22 hours ago
Precious metals like palladium and platinum are often used as chemical catalysts, but true to their name, they're expensive to source. Scientists may have just found a cheaper alternative.

Ars Technica - 1 day 22 hours ago
SpaceX has started commissioning a second launch pad at the company's Starbase facility in Texas.

The Conversation - 1 day 22 hours ago
Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it's an important line of research.

The Conversation - 1 day 22 hours ago
Rather than generating climate-warming emissions and wasting nutrients and energy, food waste can become a resource if processed in sewage treatment plants.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 22 hours ago
M li s' film, a minute-long work titled Gugusse and the Automaton , contains what might be the first on-screen depiction of a robot.

Popular Mechanics - 1 day 23 hours ago
The ability to create hair follicles that implant, grow, and regenerate has been elusive until now.

The Atlantic - 1 day 23 hours ago
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

How It Works - 2 days 1 hour ago
These big-footed marsupials have evolved an amazing lifecycle that is fully geared for the species' survival The post Joey to Adult: The Complete Kangaroo Life Cycle appeared first on How It Works .

Newser - 2 days 2 hours ago
A casual suggestion in a French office just rewrote a chapter of math history. Researcher Victor Gysembergh of France's CNRS says he has identified a long-missing page from the famed Archimedes Palimpsest, hiding in a fine arts museum in the central French city of Blois, reports AFP . The parchment, reused...

New York Times - 2 days 2 hours ago
Marcela Silva at the site of her former Pacific Palisades home.

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 3 hours ago
Since I'm still a newbie around here, I jumped at the opportunity to get to know one of my fellow LWONers a little better by interviewing Eric Wagner about his latest book Seabirds as Sentinels: Auklets, Puffins, and the View from Destruction Island. I took my cue from Jennifer Holland's great recent interview with Neil […] The post Auklets and islands appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Nature - 2 days 11 hours ago
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Nature - 2 days 11 hours ago
The government's plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?...