
GeekSpin - 19 hours 43 sec ago
We usually think of our Solar System as a calm, well-organized family of planets, but a new study suggests its early days may have been far more chaotic. Instead of the four giant planets we know today, scientists think there may have once been six, meaning two massive worlds could have been kicked out of […] Read the original article here: Scientists say our Solar System may have lost two planets...

Ars Technica - 19 hours 1 min ago
Machine learning has its limits how is it being used?...

Newser - 21 hours 2 min ago
Honeybees and shrimp are the latest species undergoing vaccinations, with what could be big benefits for agriculture and aquaculture. A Georgia-based company, Dalan Animal Health, has begun rolling out what the USDA conditionally cleared three years ago as the first honeybee vaccine in the US and it's now reporting early...

Last Word On Nothing - 21 hours 2 min ago
Not everything can be awful, right? Not everything can be the worst. Anyway, I have just decided that I refuse to let everything be the worst and to succumb to the idea that no, it is, in fact, the worst. I feel a bit guilty about trying to grasp joy, but what choice does any […] The post Everything Is Bad, But There Are Baby Deer appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .

Nature - 1 day 6 hours ago
A new book applies principles of environmental tipping points to past societal transformations and attempts to draw lessons about what the future holds today.

Nature - 1 day 6 hours ago
Commonwealth Fusion Systems published several papers detailing the design of its ARC fusion power plant.

Nature - 1 day 6 hours ago
An exploration of chaos theory in population dynamics showed that unpredictable systems can often be modelled using surprisingly simple mathematics.

Newser - 1 day 15 hours ago
On a remote Chilean island, botanists are trying to keep a species alive that's literally down to one wild tree and a new effort shows promise, reports Live Science . Conservationists collected seeds from the tree, Dendroseris neriifolia, on Robinson Crusoe Island and sent them to the Millennium Seed Bank at...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 17 hours ago
The Very Large Array (VLA), the iconic field of radio antennas featured in the film Contact (inspired by Carl Sagan's novel), has a long and distinguished history of service. But after more than 45 years of studying the radio sky and probing the mysteries of the universe, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), the part of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) which operates the VLA, is looking to create a new generation of telescopes that will pick up where the VLA leaves off...

Science Daily - 2 days 1 hour ago
A traditional Chinese medicinal root used for over a thousand years is attracting new scientific attention for its potential to combat hair loss. Studies suggest Polygonum multiflorum can block harmful hormones, activate hair-growth signals, protect follicles, and boost blood flow to the scalp. Researchers say the herb's effects align remarkably well with both ancient descriptions and modern hair biology.