
Nature - 1 day 17 hours ago
Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet's acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.

Australian Geographic - 1 day 17 hours ago
Australian researchers have discovered mosquitoes act like tiny flying wildlife surveyors', collecting the DNA of elusive endangered animals. The post Mosquito drones' used to detect endangered species populations appeared first on Australian Geographic .

GeekSpin - 1 day 19 hours ago
Nuclear spaceship is now on NASA's actual roadmap with a launch target before the end of the decade. The agency just unveiled plans for SR-1 (Space Reactor-1 Freedom), a nuclear-powered spacecraft designed to travel to Mars faster and more efficiently than anything we've built before. If it works, it could completely change how humans move […] Read the original article here: NASA's new nuclear spacecraft could cut Mars travel time in half...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 20 hours ago
A hearing on Capitol Hill today explored issues in scientific publishing and Retraction Watch had a seat at the table. The Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology called the hearing to talk about open access, reproducibility, predatory journals, paper mills and the incentive structure in science. … Continue reading Retraction Watch testifies in Congressional hearing on scientific publishing...

GeekSpin - 1 day 22 hours ago
If current scientific models are anything to go by, Earth, now 4.5 billion years old and halfway through its total lifespan, has about a billion years of livable conditions left. After that, the oceans go, slowly boiled away by an aging, brightening Sun. But the loss of water might not even be the first fatal […] Read the original article here: Earth has officially completed half its lifespan...

Australian Geographic - 1 day 22 hours ago
Enjoy some outdoor solitude along this 107km journey through rainforest, red earth and remote mountain ridges. The post Once in a blue river: Hiking New Caledonia's GR NC1 Trail appeared first on Australian Geographic .

New Scientist - 1 day 22 hours ago
Patients are requesting that blood transfusions come from people who they know have not been vaccinated against covid-19, which can cause dangerous delays...

Retraction Watch - 1 day 23 hours ago
A group of cancer researchers whose work has been questioned by sleuths has been hit with their third retraction in less than a year. Today, Science Translational Medicine (STM) withdrew a 2021 breast cancer study by former Indiana University researcher Yujing Li and 12 other authors for image falsification. The immunotherapy study had been described … Continue reading "Game-changer" breast cancer study retracted as Indiana researcher out of his post...

Last Word On Nothing - 2 days 8 hours ago
Like many of you, I'm guessing, I'd rather read a good book than go to a party. A room full of other people? Some of them strangers? That you have to talk to? Shudder. But after the initial awkwardness of making sure you're at the right location (do I knock or just walk in?), finding […] The post Messy Hospitality, Party Ideas, and Icebreakers appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Australian Geographic - 2 days 13 hours ago
Palaeontologists have used an Ice Age fossil to reveal extinct giant echidnas roamed south-eastern Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch. The post An extinct echidna the size of a small child once roamed Victoria, fossil shows appeared first on Australian Geographic .