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President Trump says the White House is formally probing a rash of cases involving US-linked scientists who've died or vanished in recent years, amid weeks of online speculation and tabloid chatter. "I hope it's random," Trump told reporters, calling the situation "pretty serious stuff" and saying federal investigators will review...
New research challenges assumption that small organ located behind sternum becomes unimportant after childhood...
Australian Geographic - 17 hours 1 min agoFilmmakers have been exploring and capturing Australia's connection with war since the earliest days of the Anzacs. The post The Anzac legend on film appeared first on Australian Geographic .
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GeekSpin - 21 hours 4 min agoBrace yourself for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle that sounds almost too unreal to believe: NASA has confirmed that the massive "God of Chaos" asteroid, known as Apophis, will streak past Earth so closely it will slip beneath the orbit of many satellites. Remarkably, the asteroid is expected to be bright enough to be seen with […] Read the original article here: NASA says giant asteroid will skim closer to Earth than satellites...
Nature - 21 hours 39 min agoAutonomous agents aren't just creating their own research on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they're chatting about it, too.
Nature - 21 hours 39 min agoResearchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot and caught hundreds of humans visiting.
Nature - 21 hours 39 min agoComputer scientists share their advice for ensuring that your scientific software does what it's supposed to do.
The 5-foot-5 humanoid robot Lightning, with its approximately 3-foot-long legs striding, showed its form in a half-marathon race on Sunday in Beijing.
Blue Origin's reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn's upper stage did not.
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NPR - 1 day 9 hours agoA scientific instrument on the Voyager 1 has been shut off to conserve power as the probe continues its interstellar exploration.
The laser was used to study the physics of stellar interiors and fusion energy, among other things.
Retraction Watch - 1 day 11 hours agoIf you are at all familiar with scientific sleuthing, you're familiar with Elisabeth Bik. She is quoted so often in the mainstream media it is probably difficult to imagine a time before her supersense for spotting similarities in images wasn't making headlines. But it was 10 years ago, on April 19, 2016, when she made … Continue reading 10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world...
Extra virgin olive oil might help protect your brain by working through your gut. A two-year study found that people who consumed it had better cognitive performance and more diverse gut bacteria than those using refined olive oil. Researchers even identified specific microbes linked to these benefits. The findings suggest that choosing high-quality olive oil could be a simple way to support brain health as you age.
After years of debate between fire officials seeking total vegetation removal within the first 5 feet of homes and ecologists backing selective landscaping, California proposed a compromise.
More than 80 million people suffer from glaucoma globally , making it the second most common cause of blindness worldwide. The disease caused by elevated internal eye pressure damaging the optic nerve is incurable, but its progression can be slowed with drugs to control eye pressure. Now, researchers have developed an electronics-free smart contact lens that can track the disease in real-time and also deliver drugs in response. The all-polymer lens includes a microfluidic sensor that monitors eye...
Christopher Columbus' origin story has a new genetic twist this time pointing not to Genoa, but to Galician nobility in Spain. A study says DNA from descendants buried in a Seville crypt suggests the explorer's bloodline traces back to Pedro lvarez de Sotomayor, a powerful 15th-century Galician lord better known...
Mother Jones - 2 days 10 hours agoThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Picture yourself in a windswept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking as trees sway to and fro. This oscillation might seem precarious, but it's actually an ancient adaptation: If pines and firs and all the others were perfectly stiff, a […]...
Sitting all day might not be as damaging as once feared if you're willing to move more. A massive study tracking over 72,000 people found that simply increasing daily steps can significantly reduce the risk of death and heart disease, even for those who spend long hours sedentary. Hitting around 9,000 10,000 steps a day delivered the biggest benefits, cutting mortality risk by nearly 40% and cardiovascular disease by over 20%.
Retraction Watch - 2 days 11 hours agoIf your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 64,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: An alternative to the impact factor in China; the clinical trials of six superretractors'; Retraction Watch goes to Capitol Hill...
Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter their speed, has vexed mathematicians for decades.
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