During the ”snowball Earth” period about 700m years ago, Earth’s climate shut down. The planet was encased in ice and insulated from seasonal variations: spring, summer, autumn and winter all stopped. Or at least that was the theory.
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President Donald Trump just gave the longest State of the Union address in recorded history, a speech filled with examples of the United States’ leadership status in the world, but it omitted one possible point of pride: NASA’s upcoming Artemis…
BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — Land plants began colonizing the continents and shaping Earth’s surface environment much earlier than previously thought, a study led by Chinese scientists showed.
The research, led by researcher Zhao Mingyu at…
Have you noticed that the Moon is getting a little bigger each night? That’s because of where we are in the lunar cycle. Keep scrolling to find out what that means for tonight’s…
Illustration of the treatment of a liver failure patient using ex vivo perfusion with a six-gene-edited pig liver Photo: Screenshot from the WeChat account of Xijing Hospital
Chinese researchers have achieved the world’s first successful…
Searching for past or present life on Mars is the sole driving force behind every mission we send to the Red Planet, from orbiters to landers to rovers. However, there remains a concern in the scientific community of Earth-based microbes…
Artificial intelligence can be used to provide a more precise time of death, which can be crucial in e.g. murder investigations. The method was developed by researchers at Linköping University and the Swedish National Board of…
For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilised egg as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a disordered tangle of DNA waiting for the embryo to ‘wake up’ and start reading its own genetic instructions.
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A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging-US on February 10, 2026, titled “Aging-associated mitochondrial circular RNAs.”
Led by first author Hyejin Mun from the University of Oklahoma – with corresponding…
A Dartmouth study challenges the conventional view that the amygdala-the two-sided structure deep in the brain involved in emotion, learning, and decision making-is simply the brain’s primitive “fear center,” reflexively driving us…