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Genes and archaeology are revealing how Bantu speakers spread across much of Africa.
Scientists just pulled a "back from the dead" moment with a tiny, toxic primate in Indonesia. The Bangka slow loris, last noted in scientific literature in 1937 and flagged by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as possibly extinct in 2015, is very much alive, per a new study...
Retraction Watch - 1 day 9 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 450 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 68,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: Francesca Gino's claims against Harvard dismissed; a brief history of scientific sleuths; China's controversial trials slow...
Storm events spread microplastics across the environment, even to places that are nearly unreachable. A UC Riverside scientist skied into wilderness far off the beaten path, and found the polluting particles everywhere she looked.
Owning a home is billed as a way to build wealth, but amid climate-related disasters, for many, it's beginning to feel like a trap.
PBS Newshour - 1 day 20 hours agoThe International Space Station is 250 miles above Earth and travels at roughly 175,000 mph as it orbits our planet. Since 2000, scientists have conducted experiments on everything from cancer to botany to fundamental questions about our universe. Horizons moderator William Brangham explores life aboard the ISS with two astronauts who worked there, Karen Nyberg and Don Pettit. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Tesla's massive EV is the second within the last year to get the ax, while smaller vehicles are proliferating. It could be a huge benefit for the US battery supply chain.
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GeekSpin - 2 days 4 hours agoIt is safe to say we usually think of life as an all-or-nothing package. An animal is either a complete and functioning organism, and if one part is cut off, it dies. And that is if the animal survives the injury that led to the loss of parts of its body. Well, that was the […] Read the original article here: This creature could hold the secret to human limb regrowth...
El Ni o is driving whole tropical ecosystems north.
Last August, looking up from the edge of an ancient river delta on Mars, the Perseverance rover 's electronic eye spied an oblong shadow crossing the distant, glowing Sun. Phobos , the Martian moon named for the Greek god of fear and panic, was transiting the solar disk. Too small to darken the pale, dust-tinged sky, but orbiting close enough to eclipse a significant fraction of the Sun, Phobos passed in less than a minute. NASA's Perseverance rover captured Phobos passing in front of the...
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 6 hours agoA modern psychopathy test, applied to a 1629 shipwreck, uncovers the dark origins of toxic bosses.
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 7 hours agoNew dating puts Ubeidiya alongside the oldest known Eurasian settlements and hints that early humans arrived in waves.
GeekSpin - 2 days 7 hours agoA radio signal from a star 238 light-years away briefly looked like it might be a sign of alien life, but the astronomers who found it say it’s more likely coming from somewhere on Earth. The signal turned up in data from China’s FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope), the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, which […] Read the original article here: China detects rare radio signal from distant star system...
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Don't think of all Mesozoic mammals as meek and tiny alongside the terrible lizards, some were giants in their own right...
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The images from Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show the mammalian species and their twitching noses at their cutest...
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