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Following a difficult journey, the probe will soon begin unravelling the mysteries of Mercury's magnetic field and internal structure.
Last Word On Nothing - 23 hours 46 min agoI’m not getting any less mad about this, didn’t you hear me the first time? The New World, when the Old World was full of all kinds of people, had nobody. NOBODY WAS HERE. THEY ALL CAME HERE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. Everybody here was at some point AN IMMIGRANT. And yes, I’m shouting, why can’t […] The post Nobody Was Here appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
The old line about all roads leading to Rome? Not so much, a new study finds. Researchers digitally mapped some 190,000 miles of Roman roads and concluded that Constantinople now Istanbul sat at the true crossroads of the empire's land routes, far better positioned than Rome for empire-wide travel....
Australian Geographic - 1 day 2 hours agoA record-breaking breeding season for New Zealand's iconic flightless parrot, the kakapo, has resulted in a remarkable population milestone for the critically endangered species. The post Population soars for flightless kakapo appeared first on Australian Geographic .
The BBC's Annabel Rackham shares some dos and don'ts, following government advice in case of food supply chain disruption.
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Nature - 1 day 7 hours agoThe tiny power sources, tested in pigs, dissolve inside the digestive tract after several months.
Nature - 1 day 7 hours agoArtificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data but humans still need to decide what makes sense.
Nature - 1 day 7 hours agoTechnique uses chemical tags to shut down viral DNA lurking in host's genome.
Scientists have bioengineered mice whose brains contain working human cells, but they stress that they're not "mice that think like humans." In a study published in Nature , Stanford University neuroscientists say they engineered mice to have almost no cerebral cortex of their own, leaving around half the volume of their...
Nowadays, solar cells are typically found on sunny surfaces on land or aboard satellites in space. A new study suggests photovoltaics can also work below the ocean's surface, generating useful amounts of electricity underwater even at depths of 10 meters. "With submerged solar cells, submarines or autonomous underwater vehicles could achieve far greater range and mission endurance than they do today," says Wen-Hua Zhang , dean of Yunnan University's school of materials and energy...
Rivers aren't just carrying water to the seas they're moving plastic there by the ton. A new study in Science estimates that in 2022, rivers dumped about 260,000 metric tons of microplastics into the ocean, far more than previously thought, reports the Washington Post . About 96% came from developing...
Isotope ratios provide a hint that the giants were actively managing temperatures.
Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals' fate in a changing climate.
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