How would scientists even recognize biological signs of life beyond Earth? Assembly theory proposes a way to identify molecules made by living systems—even those using unfamiliar chemistries.
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My partner, however, always assumed that one day he would be a dad I didn’t become a childfree woman. I was born childfree, much like everyone else, then I simply stayed that way. There was no need to go through a future-mother phase to know that in my home there would be no chirpy children’s laughter or tippety-tap of bare toddler feet. Poor David then, my partner. He most definitely was in his f
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A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California's Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday.
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Thousands of renewable projects are waiting to connect to the grid, but there aren't enough transmission lines. Some tech companies have faster and cheaper solutions. (Image credit: Julia Simon/NPR)
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Get a MacBook for less ahead of the new school year at Amazon.
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Three people have died and a man remains in hospital after attending a lunch in Leongatha, Victoria, more than two weeks ago. Police say mushrooms are the suspected cause of death and are investigating. Jane Lee speaks to Guardian Australia science reporter Donna Lu about the case Continue reading…
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The mountain devil can cross hundreds of miles of rough alpine terrain, tear into an elk carcass frozen for weeks and fend off predators several times larger than its 40-pound frame.
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The mountain devil can cross hundreds of miles of rough alpine terrain, tear into an elk carcass frozen for weeks and fend off predators several times larger than its 40-pound frame.
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Temperatures in Morocco have for the first time on record topped 50 degrees Celsius (120 Fahrenheit), the North African country's meteorological service said Sunday amid a scorching heat wave.
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High temperatures exacerbate ground-level ozone production, resulting in a deadly combination of extreme heat and poor air quality that is especially dangerous for children, seniors, and people suffering from preexisting respiratory illnesses.
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Allowing forests to regenerate on their own has been championed as a strategy for reducing planet-heating carbon in the atmosphere while also boosting biodiversity, the benefits ecosystems offer and even the fruitfulness of livelihoods.
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I am currently living in a hot city (all year round 30-38c) and the scalding sun punishes us in many ways: – sweating at all times when outside during the day – every room in the house needs AC. Can't even dream of having a major power outage – can't really dress nicely, putting on a suit is out of question – going anywhere on foot or motorbike on sunny days feels like walking on a volcano – thin
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NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered the first evidence that Mars once had a climate which alternated between wet and dry seasons similar to Earth, a study said on Wednesday, suggesting the red planet may have once had the right conditions to support life.
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Receiving therapy for problematic social media use can be effective in improving the mental wellbeing of people with depression, a new study finds.
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Evidence is mounting on the health costs of these products. The real culprit is financialised growth, not inadequate individual willpower If we are what we eat, then we are increasingly composed from substances including synthetic emulsifiers, flavour compounds, bulking agents and stabilising gums (one of the most common being a slime produced by bacteria). Well over half of the average diet in t
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Receiving a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine or booster during pregnancy can benefit pregnant people and their newborn infants, according to new findings.
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Researchers have created a panel of genetically diverse mice that accurately model the highly variable human response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. The team uncovered differences in the innate immune and regulated proinflammatory responses, the timing and strength of which are associated with disease severity.
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Melanin is produced within special structures called melanosomes. Melanosomes are found inside melanin-producing pigment cells called melanocytes. Although all humans have the same number of melanocytes, the amount of melanin they produce differs and gives rise to the variation in human skin color.
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Melanin is produced within special structures called melanosomes. Melanosomes are found inside melanin-producing pigment cells called melanocytes. Although all humans have the same number of melanocytes, the amount of melanin they produce differs and gives rise to the variation in human skin color.
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Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has regrown strongly after the big losses of 2016 and 2017, when water temperatures were significantly above the long-term average. While this is good news, it's largely luck. The reef experienced mass bleaching in 2020 and 2022, but temperatures cooled just in time to prevent extensive coral deaths.
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Coral on the Great Barrier Reef has regrown strongly after the big losses of 2016 and 2017, when water temperatures were significantly above the long-term average. While this is good news, it's largely luck. The reef experienced mass bleaching in 2020 and 2022, but temperatures cooled just in time to prevent extensive coral deaths.
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In late July, a study published in Nature Communications warned that a critical ocean system that brings warm water up the North Atlantic, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), was at risk of collapse by 2095 for want of drastic emissions cuts.
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to global health. In 2019, it caused more than 1.27 million deaths worldwide—and it's projected that antimicrobial resistance (which includes bacterial resistance to antibiotics) may contribute to 10 million deaths per year by 2050.
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While apples aren’t considered a superfood, they are considered a functional food.
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The universe we live in is a transparent one, where light from stars and galaxies shines bright against a clear, dark backdrop. But this wasn’t always the case—in its early years, the universe was filled with a fog of hydrogen atoms that obscured light from the earliest stars and galaxies. The intense ultraviolet light from the first generations of stars and galaxies is thought to have burned thr
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It's practically impossible to tell anything that will happen in the future with certainty. Who could've imagined Covid-19? Of those few people in history that got anything right, they got away with it by using vague, contradictory language. Eg. "Humans might have a means of communication with each other halfway or entirely on opposite ends of the world sometime in the distant future… Or possib
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In recent years, physicists have been trying to attain the control of chemical reactions in the quantum degenerate regime, where de Broglie wavelength of particles becomes comparable to the spacing between them. Theoretical predictions suggest that many-body reactions between bosonic reactants in this regime will be marked by quantum coherence and Bose enhancement, yet this has been difficult to v
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Astronomers report the discovery of a new massive brown dwarf using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). The newly detected object is about 80 times more massive than Jupiter and orbits a low-mass star. The finding was detailed in a paper published July 28 on the preprint server arXiv.
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The Muon g-2 collaboration has announced their much-anticipated updated measurement. The new result aligns with the collaboration's first result, announced in 2021—and it's twice as precise. In fact, it's the most precise measurement ever made using a particle accelerator.
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Why are human eyes different colours? Gabrielle Kuper, aged 5, London Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com . Continue reading…
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We park beside the lighthouse keeper’s garden. A hummingbird is unbalancing hibiscus flowers; a nuthatch, tidying up the trunks of trees. I didn’t know its name the last time we were here. What else did I not know? What else has happened? This is a place we don’t seem to mind returning to after the dog, without him, maybe because it looks like time made walkable. The fins of gneiss, upright like
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The escalating political struggle over abortion is compounding the GOP’s challenges in the nation’s largest and most economically vibrant metropolitan areas. The biggest counties in Ohio voted last week overwhelmingly against the ballot initiative pushed by Republicans and anti-abortion forces to raise the threshold for passing future amendments to the state constitution to 60 percent. That propo
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Atlantic staff writer Marina Koren. Marina reports on
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Out on the bow of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer, the air is dense and almost warm. We have punched through miles of Antarctic ice floes to reach the Amundsen Sea’s foggy interior. I want to honor the remaining distance between us and Thwaites Glacier’s calving front––this place that many scientists suggest could make a catastrophic impact on global sea levels but that no one, as of this moment in F
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The cable-news industry that Americans know today is a cautionary tale in what happens when democracy collides with consumerism. For years, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News raked in profits while amplifying partisan rancor in varying ways. Starting in 2015, CNN pumped its ratings by playing up Donald Trump, whose presidency then buoyed all three cable-news giants. But now CNN is in turmoil after a recent
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On Oct. 14, an epic 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse will swoop across North America, providing once-in-a-lifetime views for several states. Here’s how to watch, no matter where you are.
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This week, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of globular cluster NGC 6652 — a collection of some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Finding the perfect place to live in another state—or country—is challenging, but with a few tools and some smart communication, you can make it easier.
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This low-cost electric trike opens up the outdoors to more people, but three wheels have their own set of challenges.
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Læs artiklen fra 9. april 1938 Ingeniørens tidsmaskine Siden 1892 har Ingeniøren forsynet de danske ingeniører med nyheder inden for teknikkens verden. Mange af dem er et gensyn værd, og i Ingeniørens tidsmaskine dykker vi ned i de gamle årgange og linker til nogle af de vigtige, interessante, sjove eller bare læseværdige artikler. Find selv flere her i Ingeniørernes Danmarkshistorie.
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Researchers have found microplastics inside human heart tissues — though as the scientists note, that shouldn't be all too surprising. "Everywhere scientists look for microplastics," a press release about the new research reads, "they’ve found them." Be it in food , water , air , and even some parts of the human body , microplastics are absolutely everywhere. And, as it turns out, the human heart
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A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California's Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday.
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Windows comes with its own productivity-boosting tool—here's how it works.
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Beam Me Up The Chinese military has announced what could be a major breakthrough in energy weapon tech — if it holds up. As the South China Morning Post reports , representatives from the country's National University of Defence Technology say they've developed a state-of-the-art cooling system that would allow high-energy lasers to remain powered up "infinitely" without getting too hot. While la
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whether its digital art, music, etc. 95% is just techniques to realize or get close to what one has in imagination. you can have very creative pictures in your mind but the hard part is knowing how to use photoshop etc. to achieve it. that's technique, expertise, nothing to do with creavitiy. in countries like Germany, China, and i think in most Anglo countries also, "creative" arts have the LOWE
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There is no known safe level of exposure.
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Previously, researchers thought that humans arrived in North America 13,000 years ago, but now they're finding much older evidence.
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This week in the department of "no duh": we have a recent paper out of Florida Atlantic University that has determined — to the shock of no one who ever attended middle school — that adolescent life is much harder if you're not attractive or good at sports. Titled "The Perils of Not Being Attractive or Athletic: Pathways to Adolescent Adjustment Difficulties Through Escalating Unpopularity," this
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If departing the EU has failed to deliver, why is the UK still so divided? Seven years on, we ask behavioural psychologists if cognitive dissonance can be overcome One of the most significant political events of the past few months, it has seemed to me, wasn’t strictly a bit of politics at all, but an emotional catch and quaver in the voice of a politician. The politician was the Conservative MP
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Technology proves able to identify dozens of species in thousands of hours of recordings Researchers have developed arrays of AI -controlled cameras and microphones to identify animals and birds and to monitor their movements in the wild – technology, they say, that should help tackle Britain’s growing biodiversity problem. The robot monitors have been tested at three sites and have captured soun
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The Mütter Museum, a beloved 19th-century collection of medical curiosities and human remains in Philadelphia, wants to adopt a more “respectful” approach. Some fans won’t have it.
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An age-old technique transforms vegetables and spices into a popular condiment with a zesty, funky taste. The key? Nurturing the right community of microbes. Here's how the magic happens. (Image credit: Meredith Rizzo for NPR)
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In the refrigerated grocery store aisle, meat alternatives greatly outnumber plant-based seafoods. But more mock seafood options are needed because of unsustainable fishing and aquaculture practices, which can deplete the supply and harm the environment.
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Efter flere fejlslagne forsøg har Rigspolitiets it-direktør sat gang i en omfattende modernisering af politiets utidssvarende it-landskab.
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So, one of the many cool things going around right now is Barium Sulfate cooling panels, which act in the exact same way greenhouses dont: they reflect away visible light, and emit infrared. (greenhouses obviously let visible light though, and reflect infrared) This cool paper has tons of details: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2011/2011.01161.pdf#:~:text=BaSO4%20has%20a%20high%20electron,sky
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A chronological listing of news and opinion articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Aug 6, 2023 thru Sat, Aug 12, 2023. Story of the Week With Temperature and Other Climate Extremes Shattering Records, Should We Call it 'Global Boiling'? 'Weirding'? Or…? The U.N. Secretary-General says the era of 'global boiling' has arrived. Is that over the top, or an
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