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Solution to Feynman's reverse sprinkler puzzle also applies to "silly sprinklers"

New study confirms 2024 "momentum flux theory" on how angular momentum of water flows drives rotation.

A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking

The author argues that routine full-body MRI screening for asymptomatic people provides minimal health benefits, with an…

How humans evolved to be twice as big as our ancestors

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually…

Sugar molecules found in interstellar space for the first time

Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar…

Alzheimer’s, stroke, depression: The preventative power of sauna

Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly.

SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May

This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the…

Shifts in the jet stream are behind Europe’s long heatwaves

Two types of jet stream patterns seem to be causing persistent heat domes over Europe, with big questions for the future

Game that reduces dementia risk clears amyloid from men’s brains

Playing a mental speed-training game seems to help the brain clear a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease in men, but…

Four children with terminal brain cancer saved by new cell therapy

An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version…

Backtrack-Free Cursive

A writer frustrated by the frequent backtracking required in English cursive—particularly when dotting i's and crossing…

The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News

Sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean's Niño 3.4 region have reached unprecedented levels in 2023,…

How Indian scientists are mapping the brain's last frontier

India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.

Why study Diophantine equations?

Number theory seeks integer solutions to polynomial equations (Diophantine equations) to uncover hidden mathematical…

A no-brainer for protecting your brain

AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery

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Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

Polynesian ancestors, the Lapita people, settled islands in Samoa and Tonga around 3,000 years ago but then remained…

The real mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?

New climate evidence adds context to these long voyages.

We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture

Researchers at Drexel University discovered that simple, non-elastic fluids can fracture under stress, a phenomenon…

The Energetic Costs of Cellular Computation (2012)

Researchers Mehta and Schwab calculate that cells must consume energy to perform computations, such as detecting…

Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid

A multi-institutional autopsy study found that replicating SARS-CoV-2 detected in heart tissue was significantly…

Long Covid May Physically Damage the Nerves That Control the Stomach

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma

Martha Lillard, the last U.S.

Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name

When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and…

T. rex could become most expensive fossil ever - but it's a ​problem for scientists

A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.

Ice on testicles and donating blood - the myths sold to men trying to boost their sperm

With men’s fertility increasingly in the spotlight, we meet the men using unproven “hacks” promoted by influencers to up…

Doctors die. It's not like the rest of us, but it should be (2016)

Retired doctor Ken Murray argues that physicians routinely refuse aggressive end-of-life treatments for themselves that…

Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find

Virginia Tech researchers found that resistance training (weightlifting) is more effective than endurance exercise…

Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)

Lead gasoline was introduced in 1921 by General Motors engineer Thomas Midgley Jr.

Earendel (Astronomical Object)

Earendel, discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2022 and located 28 billion light-years away in the constellation…