
Australian Geographic - 17 hours 56 min ago
Camping trips are one of the best ways for your clan to experience all the Aussie outdoors has to offer. It's time to make it happen! The post The great escape: Top tips for your next family camping trip appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Wired - 17 hours 56 min ago
Humanity has thrived thanks to a stable cryosphere, but burning fossil fuels has increased the risk of "accelerating and partly irreversible" harm to the planet's cold places.

Los Angeles Times - 18 hours 32 min ago
Roger Taylor of English pop-rock band Duran Duran is stepping away from the gig. The drummer will hang up his drumsticks following a diagnosis of tinnitus, which has worsened of late.

Australian Geographic - 18 hours 54 min ago
Yakima has released a bunch of of outdoor goodies, including an all-new bike rack and some very handy accessories for adventurers. We check 'em out. The post Yakima's new StepUp 2" Rack, plus hitch and awning accessories appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Ars Technica - 19 hours 38 min ago
An exoplanet seems to stopped transiting in front of its host star.

GeekSpin - 20 hours 26 min ago
The universe could be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice as old as scientists generally believe, according to a researcher at the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) who says his model also works without dark matter or dark energy. Rajendra Gupta, an adjunct professor of physics, and postdoctoral researcher Nikolaos Samaras have spent much of the […] Read the original article here: Scientists claim the universe is twice as old as believed...

Wired - 20 hours 58 min ago
After its latest device failed to perform, brain-computer interface startup Synchon halted clinical trials. The company says it will upgrade the implant's hardware and is at work on a new device.

Popular Mechanics - 22 hours 56 min ago
Epigenetic clocks suggest puberty is a pivotal window when stress leaves a deeper mark on our DNA.

The Conversation - 23 hours 14 min ago
When floods, heat waves and other climate disasters cost companies money, the results can shape their willingness to invest there in the future.

Popular Mechanics - 23 hours 26 min ago
Many theories about consciousness ask how it works, but a new study tries to pin down an equally important question: Where is it located?...

GeekSpin - 1 day 56 min ago
Space continues to keep its best secrets hidden in plain sight, and astronomers have just stumbled upon one of its most baffling mysteries yet. Deep in a distant star system, researchers have detected a completely invisible object whose unusual mass and wide orbit have challenged thousands of computer simulations, making it difficult to fit into […] Read the original article here: Scientists find mysterious invisible object in deep space...

New York Times - 1 day 59 min ago
Tilling a field in anticipation of the seasonal rains in Namasoko, a village in the Phalombe district in southern Malawi.

Newser - 1 day 1 hour ago
A western Kansas zoo just got a rare addition that zookeepers hope will help pull a species back from the brink. The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City announced Tuesday that a female addax antelope calf was born Oct. 3 to parents Sahara and Dobby, their second offspring after a...

NBC News - 1 day 10 hours ago
Inside K2 Space, two brothers are building massive satellites powered by glowing krypton plasma, with ambitions ranging from orbital data centers to hundreds of missions to Mars and beyond.

Nature - 1 day 12 hours ago
A Florida fungus might combine the psychedelic compound psilocybin with deadly chemicals to defend itself against hungry animals.

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 13 hours ago
'Dead to Me' star Christina Applegate ventures a guess at what might be causing her symptoms that led to her MS misdiagnosis: poisoning.

Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 14 hours ago
Almost ten years ago, I rented an Airbnb in Beirut from a young American lawyer named Samantha, who had recently moved there from D.C. She mostly stayed at her boyfriend's apartment, leaving me alone in her tiny place in Achrafieh, but she made me feel welcome, inviting me along on evenings with her friends. I […] The post How do you keep going? appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Ars Technica - 1 day 16 hours ago
"What's unique is it's got a huge dynamic range. We can see things in full dark."...

The Conversation - 1 day 17 hours ago
Researchers found that everyone in a 100,000 sample of people has at least one genetic variant that interacts with common prescriptions.

Retraction Watch - 1 day 18 hours ago
PubPeer launched a new look on Nov. 9, including a dashboard showing the post-publication peer review platform has surpassed a half million comments in its 14 years of operation. Also among the newly public statistics: 20,784 papers had comments on PubPeer before they were retracted, with a median of 10 months between the first comment … Continue reading Do PubPeer comments make a difference? A small study tried to find out...

Ars Technica - 1 day 20 hours ago
The company plans on linking two 520-qubit chips before next year is over.

IEEE Spectrum - 2 days 1 hour ago
This article is brought to you by Innomotics . In the annals of industrial history, few innovations have demonstrated such remarkable staying power as the dynamo-electric principle. Discovered by Werner von Siemens in 1866, this groundbreaking principle remains fundamental to modern electrical engineering more than a century and a half later and continues to shape the technology portfolio of Innomotics , a globally leading provider of electric motors and large drive systems. What began as a breakthrough...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 1 hour ago
As HHS loosens peptide restrictions, advocates and entrepreneurs embrace unproven compounds despite researchers' warnings...

Science Daily - 2 days 8 hours ago
A surprising new weapon against microbes linked to head and neck cancer could be as simple as chewing gum. Scientists developed a bioengineered gum that reduced HPV levels by up to 93% in oral samples from cancer patients and nearly eliminated two harmful bacterial species after a single dose of its extract. Even more promising, the treatment spared beneficial bacteria in the mouth.