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GeekSpin - 13 hours 17 min agoTurns out, Earth may be more of a local kid than scientists thought. A new study from ETH Zurich suggests the material that built our planet came almost entirely from the inner Solar System, rather than being a cosmic mix of ingredients from both sides of Jupiter. That finding challenges a long-running theory about how […] Read the original article here: Scientists make discovery that upends Earth origin story...
Prosthetic arms and hands often stop working when wearers start to sweat. A New Zealand team of engineers and assistive technologists argues that a small change using light-based sensors on the skin instead of electrical sensors that pick up nerve activity could fix the problem. For decades, electrical muscle sensors have been the default way for a device to infer the user's desired hand, wrist, and finger motions. By placing electrodes on a prosthetic-wearer's arm near key muscle groups...
"Dolphins are predators and actively hunt their prey, whether it's been stolen from another species or not."...
Popular Mechanics - 13 hours 48 min agoThey weigh just grams yet they show that modern humans reached Eurasia 35,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court.
Decades of pollution at Pittsburgh brownfields left bacteria that evolved to survive it and maybe help clean up contaminated soil.
A Dutch scholar looking through a collection of early Christian texts turned up a pocket-size slice of Homer. Mark de Kreij of Radboud University spotted a 1,700-year-old parchment scrap in Utrecht University's holdings and realized it carried lines from Book 12 of the Odyssey, the verses in which Helios...
The Defense Department issued a legal waiver authorizing current and former personnel to share unidentified anomalous phenomena related classified information, but it doesn't extend to other agencies.
GeekSpin - 1 day 2 hours agoVenus may be hiding a dramatic chapter in its ancient history. A new study now suggests that the planet could have once been accompanied by a moon, only for its sluggish rotation to gradually pull the lunar body closer until Venus ultimately swallowed it. The idea offers a possible explanation for why Earth's planetary neighbor […] Read the original article here: Scientist discovers Venus may have swallowed its own moon...
Nature - 1 day 3 hours agoUsing a video game involving bombs and treasure chests, researchers show how neural activity flickers between two regions of the frontal cortex when the brain weighs up a tricky decision.
Australian Geographic - 1 day 3 hours agoNew research has found more than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia pre-colonisation. The research also reveals an estimated 93 per cent of this population was lost in the 70 years following the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet. The post Pre-European Indigenous population much larger than previously thought appeared first on Australian Geographic .
Retraction Watch - 1 day 4 hours agoUnion members at The Lancet and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsevier fell apart, The Lancet's union announced today. The strike is the first in The Lancet's 200-year history. Elsevier was ordered to recognize … Continue reading Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages...
The widened channel of the Bhote Koshi River in Nepal after the flash flooding last month.
A North Atlantic right whale off Cape Cod, Mass., in 2023. Only about 380 remain on the planet.
Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.
Jeff Clune a computer scientist and researcher at the University of British Columbia in Canada and founder of Recursive Superintelligence, one of two $4-billion start-ups chasing recursive self-intelligence.
These cold-blooded killers were probably as warm-blooded as mammals, according to new research.
Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum and is the result of a powerful impact two years ago that initially went undetected. The steep-sided hole about 728 feet across and up to 141 feet deep is the solar system's biggest known impact crater...
Centuries of Danish history have been hiding under a modest soccer field. Archaeologists say a routine scan of a long-used playing field in Roskilde, Denmark, has revealed the remarkably intact footprint of a 13th-century convent long believed to have been lost from history, reports Smithsonian Magazine . Ground-penetrating radar picked up...
While a bunch of sharks cruising the Maine coast may seem ominous, it's actually a sign of a conservation success story.
NPR - 1 day 18 hours agoNPR's A Martinez speaks with space security analyst Laura Grego of the Union of Concerned Scientists about the U.S. military's revelation that it has deployed weapons in space.
The treatment can reprogram immune cells that have been corrupted by the cancer, strengthening the body's ability to attack.
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 19 hours agoSo there we were, on the deck of a nice restaurant with a view of the mountains and a valley with a river flowing through it, and a menu Google had described as “elevated." Then, out of nowhere, a tiger appeared. It prowled the deck, brandishing its claws at a bachelorette party sitting next to us. […] The post A taxonomy of toddler jokes appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
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