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There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma...
NASA took advantage of the recent close approach of the Psyche probe to Mars to calibrate its observation instruments.
If you want to meet the newest octopus on the scientific record, you'll need to head nearly 6,000 feet down off the Galapagos. Researchers have formally identified a bright blue, golf ball-sized species, Microeledone galapagensis , in the journal Zootaxa more than a decade after first spotting it with a...
China just checked off a first for Hong Kong in orbit. A three-person crew blasted off Sunday night on the Shenzhou-23 mission to the Tiangong space station, including 43-year-old Li Jiaying (or Lai Ka-ying), the first astronaut from Hong Kong, per the BBC . A police officer and mother of three,...
Last Word On Nothing - 18 hours 34 min agoI like to run this post on Memorial Day (one version first ran May 28, 2012) because when I think about soldiers and wars and Memorial Day, I think about Uncle Bundy. He was awfully opinionated and excessively direct but I admired him greatly and listened when he talked. Not he ever talked about the […] The post Uncle Bundy and the Technically Sweet appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Prototype achieves diagnosis accuracy of up to 95 per cent, researchers say...
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Drinking nitrate-rich beetroot juice may do more than support heart health it could actually reshape the bacteria living in the mouth in ways that help lower blood pressure in older adults. In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that older people who drank concentrated beetroot juice twice daily for two weeks experienced noticeable blood pressure reductions, while younger adults did not.
Nature - 1 day 2 hours agoBillie Goolsby's experience with hearing loss helped her to develop a robotic tadpole for deciphering the secret lives of amphibians.
Nature - 1 day 2 hours agoNeuroscience needs to stop treating the brain as if it is a computer.
Rafe Pomerance as president of the environmental group Friends of the Earth, in 1983. "He recruited us and energized us and gave us facts that allowed us to work on the most important issue of our time," said Daniel Becker, a longtime leader with the Sierra Club.
Orange County fire official says a potential crack found on a pressurized chemical tank in Garden Grove might alleviated internal pressure, reducing risk of a catastrophic explosion.
It can be difficult to carry on conversation in a crowded public setting, and even more so with any degree of hearing loss. But what if you could amplify only the person you wanted to hear and suppress the rest ? What if a computer could do that automatically by reading your brain? When we focus on a particular person talking, we subconsciously track the gradual modulations in speech volume, which vary from speaker to speaker. This characteristic pattern appears in the brain activity of the listener...
Mother Jones - 1 day 14 hours agoThis story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democrats and Republicans agree on virtually nothing at this point, except the desperate need to build more housing in the United States. Depending on your viewpoint, the country needs new domiciles because it puts people to work and stimulates local economies, or […]...
The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.
Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.
Researchers found that adding bananas to berry smoothies can dramatically reduce the body's ability to absorb healthy flavanols. The surprising discovery shows that even simple food combinations can change how much nutrition your body actually gets.
Scientists have cracked open the "black box" of feline cancer in a landmark study that genetically analyzed nearly 500 cat tumors from around the world. The research uncovered striking similarities between cancers in cats, dogs, and humans including shared cancer-driving genes tied to aggressive breast cancers.
It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case.
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