The Kimberella fossil. Credit: Dr Ilya Bobrovskiy/GFZ-Potsdam. Credit: Dr Ilya Bobrovskiy/GFZ-Potsdam The contents of the last meal consumed by the…
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Slate plaques from about 5000 years ago engraved with images of what look like owls may have been children’s artwork…
People with cluster headaches may be more than three times more likely to have other medical conditions such as heart…
There is a frozen soup of viruses, bacteria and fungal spores lurking beneath the frigid Arctic soil. Unlike the icy…
The effects of positive information and negative information on the proportion of recovered individuals for a certain transmission rate of…
Scientists at Scripps Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found a clue to the molecular cause of Alzheimer’s…
The large number of fluorescent yellow dots in this foraminifer are incorporated nanoplastic particles. Credit: Marlena Joppien, Leibniz Centre for…
An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice, potentially accelerating ice loss as…
Archaeologists have discovered ancient mummies buried with stunning, lifelike portraits of the deceased. The mummies were interred in a cemetery…
There is more melted rock under Yellowstone Caldera – a volcano in Wyoming – than was previously estimated, but that…
Renewables are on track to generate more power than coal in the United States this year. But the question is…
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An AI has learned to deceive human opponents in the war-themed board game Stratego, which involves imperfect information and a…
When the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the world’s governing body for soccer, proclaimed that the 2022 World Cup…
A young woman experienced spontaneous vomiting attacks during which she would sometimes retch more than 30 times a day and…
As physical links between the ground and the sky, plants play an important role in shaping Earth’s weather and climate.…
Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT have developed…
Rietveld refinement of deuterated carbonic acid at 1.85 GPa. Shown are the results of the simultaneous refinement against the shorter…
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A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in central Japan,…
Construction has started on the largest telescope array on Earth. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will contain hundreds of radio…
Patient-derived parathyroid organoids (PTOs) could pave the way for future physiology studies and drug-screening applications, as shown in a study…
This year’s flu shots appear to be a “very good match” to the circulating influenza strains, health officials say. However,…
On average, students experience an estimated total of 102 alcohol-related consequences, such as blacking out, being hung over, or missing…
Daniel Kastinen’s thesis presents results that pave the way for future research and cross-disciplinary studies on meteors as well as…
An experimental HIV vaccine led to antibodies against the virus in 35 out of 36 volunteers, but whether this offers…
Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have developed a novel approach to infrared spectroscopy that enables simultaneous characterization of molecular…
Inside the leading edge of a crawling cell, intricate networks of rod-like actin filaments extend toward the cell membrane at…
Microplastic samples collected from the North Atlantic during the eXXpedition Round the World voyage. Credit: Sophie Dingwall The waters of…