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While the demolition of big dams in the West gets more attention, many of these often-obsolete obstructions are also coming out of northeastern streams and rivers and herring are returning in droves...
Time is up for the "leap second." The timekeeping fix was voted out of existence Thursday by scientists, diplomats, and timekeepers at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in France, Smithsonian magazine reports. The idea is to let those seconds, which are added every few years, accumulate until a...
Mother Jones - 1 day 6 hours agoTwo months after swimming across the breakwaters to Ceuta, Spain, Mohamed learned that his asylum claim was denied. In late July, at his home in Tangier, Mohamed didn't hesitate when he received a social media alert that the border crossing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave had opened. He hopped in a friend’s car, drove […]...
An early clue came from storks found in Europe with African arrows in their bodies. Today, an atlas reveals hundreds of bird migration routes that are both complicated and remarkable.
Sales reveal how many cars people actually bought, but not how many they actually wanted. Prices, on the other hand, show how demand is changing.
GeekSpin - 1 day 9 hours agoWe all love a good cosmic light show, but the sun is constantly hurling intense streams of solar energy and particles our way. The good thing, however, is that our planet is protected by a magnetic forcefield known as the magnetosphere. But as a new study reveals, this cosmic sunscreen isn’t an impenetrable fortress, making […] Read the original article here: Space tsunamis put half the US in line for massive blackouts . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking here .
GeekSpin - 1 day 10 hours agoA trip to Mars could be one of humanity's greatest achievements, but the journey may come with a hidden danger that threatens astronauts long after they return home. Scientists are warning that exposure to deep-space radiation could cause lasting damage to the human heart, raising new concerns about the health risks of sending people to […] Read the original article here: Scientists discover going to Mars could break human hearts . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking here .
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 13 hours agoOn this day in 2025, my best good girl left this world. This post I wrote to commemorate her ran here a few weeks before, on Sept. 24, and is also live today at Terra Affirma. I miss her every damn day. The post She began to dream again appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
Australian Geographic - 1 day 13 hours agoWith wings about the size of a dinner plate, Tropical North Queensland s Hercules moth is one of the largest moths in the world. The post ‘The Hercules moth sure lives up to its name’ appeared first on Australian Geographic .
GeekSpin - 1 day 20 hours agoNearly 90 years after Amelia Earhart vanished during her attempt to fly around the world, a new expedition is diving into the waters near a remote Pacific island in hopes of finding her missing aircraft. Researchers believe a mysterious object spotted in aerial and satellite images could hold the key to one of aviation's greatest […] Read the original article here: Divers begin search for possible Amelia Earhart wreckage . Add GEEKSPIN as a Preferred Source by clicking here .
Nature - 1 day 21 hours agoCryptographers' inboxes are being flooded with requests to validate cipher solutions.
Nature - 1 day 21 hours agoData from mouse brains and 13 human brains show a link between levels of a lipid-degrading and cognitive resilience,...
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Retraction Watch - 2 days 20 min agoAnnals of Internal Medicine has retracted a paper on treatments for Long COVID because the authors did not report dosing information for metformin, one of the drugs tested in the study. The editor-in-chief of the journal called the exclusion "sloppy" and "inaccurate." The same day the journal retracted the paper, it published a new version … Continue reading Journal retracts, republishes paper on Long COVID treatment trial...
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 27 min agoThe controversial idea might help explain experiences like remote viewing and out-of-body feelings.
Researchers hunted for clues in modal analysis of 20th-century replica bell at Penn State Behrend.
Its effect on people remains an ongoing question.
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 2 hours agoResearchers haven't proved that radiation caused the dogs' genetic differences. But if exposure left harmful inherited changes, their descendants could carry those changes somewhere else.
One of the singular features of Baotou, an industrial city of 2 million people in Inner Mongolia, is a 10-square-kilometer (4-square-mile) lake that is among the most polluted in the world. The artificial lake, referred to by the name of the dam associated with it, Weikuang Dam (or Baogang Tailings Dam), has for decades collected the effluent from minerals processing for China's globally dominant iron, steel, and rare-earths industries. Built in the late 1950s, the lake contains a highly toxic...
The global campaigns to break China's dominance of vital rare-earth markets are shaping up into one of the signature geostrategic struggles of the early 21st century. Hundreds of mining companies, government agencies, and industrial facilities scattered across North America, Australasia, and Europe are striving to wrest share from Chinese firms, which control roughly 90 percent of the markets for rare-earth oxides and rare-earth metals. Rare earths are the ingredients on which vast and crucial...
Optogenetics, a field that started with an algae gene, is shedding light on new treatments for eye and neuropsychiatric conditions.
Scientist have projected for years that climate change would lead to fewer Santa Anas by the end of the century. A new UCLA paper shows it's already happening.
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