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When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff we’re made of to hang together
Indian scientists at IIT Madras have created the world's most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem at cellular resolution, combining over 500 tissue sections from different life stages to identify more than 200 clusters of brain cells and nerve pathways.
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As her Amish community in Libby, Montana modernized and adopted modern conveniences and dress, the author and her family gradually stopped speaking Pennsylvania Dutch, their traditional language.
Japanese scientists have developed a new recycling method that recovers up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries—double the rate of traditional methods—by using recovered lithium hydroxide instead of sodium hydroxide during processing.
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This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.
Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago
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When the Trump Administration defunded NOAA and took Climate.gov offline, former federal employees including Rebecca Lindsey and her sister Mary rebuilt the site as Climate.us, preserving over 15 years of critical climate data and resources including the…
New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.
The author argues that routine full-body MRI screening for asymptomatic people provides minimal health benefits, with an expected gain of only 0.025 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) per person.
Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually smaller than us, in both height and body mass. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals surprising details about the short kings of prehistory
Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar found in raspberries has been spotted in a cosmic cloud nearly 27 light years away
Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly. But we’re discovering that heat therapies like sauna, when used in the right way, have surprisingly wide-reaching benefits for health
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, fail, fix" approach to rocket development, which often ends in fireballs.
Two types of jet stream patterns seem to be causing persistent heat domes over Europe, with big questions for the future
Playing a mental speed-training game seems to help the brain clear a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease in men, but may work in women through different mechanisms
An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version is now being tested on more patients
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A writer frustrated by the frequent backtracking required in English cursive—particularly when dotting i's and crossing t's—analyzed the problem by comparing English and Russian texts and found that English requires backtracking in 51% of words…
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Sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean's Niño 3.4 region have reached unprecedented levels in 2023, departing entirely from all previous records since 1982 based on direct satellite and buoy observations.
India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.
Number theory seeks integer solutions to polynomial equations (Diophantine equations) to uncover hidden mathematical structures, much like how authors reveal deeper ideas through particular stories.
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Polynesian ancestors, the Lapita people, settled islands in Samoa and Tonga around 3,000 years ago but then remained relatively stationary for 1,700 years before suddenly embarking on a massive eastward migration between 900-1100 AD, reaching…
New climate evidence adds context to these long voyages.
Researchers at Drexel University discovered that simple, non-elastic fluids can fracture under stress, a phenomenon previously thought to occur only in elastic complex fluids.
Researchers Mehta and Schwab calculate that cells must consume energy to perform computations, such as detecting chemical concentrations in their environment, with greater computational accuracy requiring more energy expenditure.
A multi-institutional autopsy study found that replicating SARS-CoV-2 detected in heart tissue was significantly associated with cardiac Long COVID symptoms, present in 82% of virus-positive cases compared to 37% of virus-negative cases.
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