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It was a suitably icy farewell salute: a handful of snowballs arcing through the sky towards RSS Ernest Shackleton as the ship slipped away from the wharf. The vessel was...]]>
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Emory University primatologist Frans de Waal — who pioneered studies of animal cognition while also writing best-selling books that helped popularize the field around the...]]>
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I was scrolling through Twitter last night when I came across an RIP for primatologist Frans de Waal. The news caught me off guard. How could de Waal be dead? He was...]]>
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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:20:03 -050003/18/2024/07/20/03
If you have a dog or cat, chances are you've given your pet a flavored chewable tablet for tick prevention at some point. What if you could take a similar pill to...]]>
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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:20:06 -050003/18/2024/07/20/06
In a new study, patients will have their blood plasma completely replaced with plasma from young donors.
This will be the first time researchers test a...]]>
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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:20:06 -050003/18/2024/07/20/06
Brain-computer interface technology is at the core of movies such as Ready Player One, The Matrix and Avatar. But outside the realm of science fiction, BCI is being...]]>
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Small, shelled, and unassuming, chitons have eyes
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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:20:05 -050003/18/2024/07/20/05
Scientists have created a cow which can produce human insulin in its milk.
The animal is transgenic - meaning DNA from another species, in this case human, was...]]>
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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 07:20:07 -050003/18/2024/07/20/07
Oxygen: the source of so much life on Earth. It's vital to every breath we take — and without it water couldn't exist, and fires couldn't...]]>
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Though astronomers already knew that strange things can happen in the final moments of a massive star's life, a recent model may have just taken the top prize as the...]]>
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Record temperatures in 2024 on land and at sea have prompted scientists to question whether these anomalies are in line with predicted global heating patterns or...]]>
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the organization that administers America's Spec Ops forces, says it will soon start clinical trials of an...]]>
Among the many things the coronavirus pandemic has affected, our work-life balance has also taken a hit. Most people are simultaneously working from home while doing...]]>
A mother in her mid-20s begins to have recurring thoughts of physically harming her baby. These thoughts make no sense to her. She deeply loves her baby,...]]>
In some large part, science is powerful not because of ideas but because of how it treats ideas. Science asks, prove it. The distinction is what...]]>
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Sat, 27 Dec 2014 04:36:20 -060012/27/2014/04/36/20
Have you ever smelled something so familiar that it felt like you were transported back through time into one of your earlier memories? Have freshly baked...]]>
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In 1958, the Smithsonian Institution received a plain paper package in the mail. The only hint of its contents was the insurance on the brown carton,...]]>
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Tue, 23 Dec 2014 04:50:14 -060012/23/2014/04/50/14
New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimerâ??s disease.
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On October 1984 I arrived at Oxford University, trailing a large steamer trunk containing a couple of changes...]]>
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Observers are the necessary, but unliked, bouncers in the elegant nightclub of ...]]>
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Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:54:52 -060012/17/2014/13/54/52
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample...]]>
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But we are not quite at the end of time yet! Itâ??s only the end of the week, which means itâ??s time for another Ask Ethan, and to give...]]>
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Sun, 14 Dec 2014 16:36:28 -060012/14/2014/16/36/28
Danish scientists have solved the quantum mechanics problem that has been teasing them since the 1930s: how to calculate real life behaviour of atoms.
The...]]>
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Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:02:32 -060012/13/2014/01/02/32
As we seek out planets orbiting stars inside their habitable zones, astronomical techniques are becoming so sophisticated that, one day, we may be able to probe the...]]>
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Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:02:05 -060012/13/2014/01/02/05
Fay-Wei Li stepped out of his car and looked around. There was not much to see aside from an old wooden fence and a soggy ditch strewn with roadside detritus. Could this...]]>
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A team of researchers including University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers have proven that their analog computing device, called a memristor, can complete complex,...]]>
In a study published on January 18, 2024 in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers from Tohoku University theoretically linked ignition and deflagration in a combustion...]]>
Insects are typically unwelcome visitors to a picnic, but they could be a flavorful, nutritious and sustainable addition to the menu. Eating insects is common in some parts of...]]>