Learn how you don’t have to close yourself off from the world to get the benefits of being alone. Learn how you don’t have to close yourself off from the world to get the benefits of being alone. Mind All Articles | Discover Magazine
In recent years, the proliferation of conspiracy theories amid escalating climate disasters and their aftermath has become an alarming trend. In recent years, the proliferation of conspiracy theories amid escalating climate disasters and their aftermath has become an alarming trend. Social Sciences Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories
Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely pinpoint the origin of repeated bursts of intense radio waves—so-called fast radio bursts (FRBs)—emanating from somewhere in the northern constellation Ursa Minor. Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope…
An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants. Of four other people given experimental pig organ transplants, none survived more than two months. Towana Looney is thrilled to feel healthy again and doctors at NYU Langone Health say…
Drax, the British owner of wood pellet plants in Mississippi and Louisiana that has paid millions in fines and settlements for violating state pollution laws in recent years, has received at least $762 million in “green” loans during that same period, an investigation by The Examination, The Toronto Star, and Mississippi Today found. The energy company ships…
¡Hola, mis amigos de la ciencia! This week, researchers reported that hominins strode bipedally across Europe 500,000 years earlier than previously known. By making digital endocasts of bird skulls, researchers in Australia and Canada report an extremely tight match between actual birds’ brains and the digital reconstructions, making brain studies of rare and extinct species…
The evolution of joints is how we went from blobs to badasses The evolution of joints is how we went from blobs to badasses Scientific American Content: Global
A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin shed by snakes. A museum curator with a ladder showed that birds that build cavity-style nests are able to protect their eggs with the skin shed by snakes. Snakes, Birds, Reproduction (Biological), Animal Behavior, Research,…
Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of Earth’s climate, according to a new study. Complex organisms, thousands of times smaller than a grain of sand, can shape massive ecosystems and influence the fate of Earth’s climate, according to a new study. Ecology Cell &…
A German aerospace engineer celebrated setting a world record Friday for the longest time living underwater without depressurization—120 days in a submerged capsule off the coast of Panama. A German aerospace engineer celebrated setting a world record Friday for the longest time living underwater without depressurization—120 days in a submerged capsule off the coast of Panama. Other Phys.org…