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Nature - 17 hours 5 min agoAI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.
Australian Geographic - 22 hours 5 min agoSnow-clad peaks, mighty waterways, and ruggedly wild forests make NZ's South Island one of the world's best outdoor playgrounds. The post Adventure Isle: The best of New Zealand's South Island appeared first on Australian Geographic .
A construction project at a Paris hospital has unexpectedly revived a centuries-old argument over where the city began. Archaeologists shoring up the Hotel Dieu on the Ile de la Cite uncovered a 72-foot-long stone-and-wood wall and a Gallic spearhead, finds that experts say look like late Iron Age fortifications described...
A bad press release makes a good excuse to look at how developmental biology works.
Popular Mechanics - 23 hours 5 min agoThe North Sea swallowed the medieval town of Shipden, and a 19th-century blast may have erased the rest.
An amoeba that shrugs off heat that would wreck most complex cells has turned up in a California national park. Syracuse University researchers say the microbe, dubbed the "fire amoeba," can grow at 145 degrees Fahrenheit and survive blasts up to 158 degrees, pushing past what scientists thought was the...
GeekSpin - 1 day 1 hour agoThere are about ten meters of living fungus in a teaspoon of good soil. Add up every teaspoon in Earth’s topsoil, and the thread runs roughly 110 quadrillion kilometers, long enough, stretched end to end, to reach the Sun hundreds of millions of times. The numbers come from the first global map of arbuscular mycorrhizal […] Read the original article here: Earth hides a living network that could reach the Sun 700M times...
Chris Wright, the Energy Secretary, speaking before the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Energy Abundance in Houston last week.
Typically, if you swallow a battery, it's a mistake that calls for a trip to the hospital. But that's not the case with a new ingestible paper battery developed by scientists at MIT. The battery could be used to power medical devices inside the body before safely breaking down. In tests in live pigs, the paper battery "generated sufficient power to perform meaningful functions inside the gastrointestinal tract, including meter-scale wireless communication and continuous electrical stimulation...
Dana Nessel, Michigan's attorney general, whose lawsuit accused fossil fuel companies of creating a "cartel" and raising costs for residents.
Popular Mechanics - 1 day 3 hours agoA new study replicated the heat and pressure conditions of Western Australia's vast iron-ore deposits to produce natural hydrogen gas.
GeekSpin - 1 day 4 hours agoApproximately 47,800 containers of radioactive waste are sitting on the ocean floor off San Francisco. No salvage operation has ever been mounted to retrieve them, though limited surveys and sampling have occurred. Ships dumped the barrels between 1946 and 1970, carrying them 25 to 60 miles offshore and tipping them over the side. Most were […] Read the original article here: Why 47,000 barrels of radioactive waste are being left on California's seafloor...
How the US gave up its edge to China in processing vital rare earth minerals and what that's costing
Today, China controls the vast majority of rare earths processing. That gives it enormous political leverage, and its trade truce with the US involving those minerals expires Nov. 10, 2026.
Storms like 2026's Hurricane Polo that rapidly intensify can catch communities off guard and leave little time to prepare or evacuate. Being able to forecast those risks can save lives.
The catastrophic story is familiar, but the insight, and the ending, offer an opportunity, and perhaps motivation, for modern readers.
Post-eruption imaging of the Hunga caldera gives new details of its collapse.
Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?...
Retraction Watch - 1 day 7 hours agoWhile reading a chapter from a 2024 book on restoring biodiversity in post-industrial land earlier this month, an ecologist came across a reference to a study on rewilding she wanted to look up. But the ecologist, who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation from the chapter authors, couldn't find a record of … Continue reading Wiley investigating book chapter on biodiversity for fake references...
Last Word On Nothing - 1 day 9 hours agoIt is fall, and even though not much changes here, the light becomes low and golden. I feel like every season is my favorite time of year when it arrives, but this time, I really mean it. Here is a beautiful tree of gold from a trip to Japan, and here’s a post I wrote […] The post Golden Boy appeared first on The Last Word On Nothing .
PBS Newshour - 1 day 18 hours agoFor years, mifepristone and similar drugs have been used to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis. Now researchers are exploring whether these drugs could have other uses in women's health, including preventing some cancers. But the politics and restrictions surrounding these drugs could affect the research. Special correspondent Sarah Varney reports for our series, Beyond Abortion. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Australian Geographic - 1 day 18 hours agoThe last known thylacine died at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo in 1936. Just one year later the controversial zoo also closed. Today, only crumbling ruins remain, a reminder of past mistakes. The post The rise and fall of Hobart’s Beaumaris Zoo appeared first on Australian Geographic .
First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.
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Retraction Watch - 2 days 7 hours agoScience of the Total Environment (STOTEN) has retracted 165 papers this year, most for "suspicious" changes in authorship or editorial conflicts of interest. The retractions have come after STOTEN was delisted from Clarivate's Web of Science in November after the index put it on hold due to concerns about article quality. The journal published over … Continue reading Elsevier journal retracts 100+ papers for authorship issues, editor conflicts of interest...
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