Oysters have a solid reputation. They sit quietly on the bottom, pulling algae and excess nutrients out of the water, helping keep coastal bays from turning into green soup.
For years, that filtering job has been the main reason people care about…
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Drawings of Kangaroo Island fossils provide inspiration for stamp series | South Australia
Prehistoric fossils from Kangaroo Island have been transformed into vibrant creatures of the deep for a series of artworks, which in turn have been made into a series of stamps.
Dr Peter Trusler has used the latest research on the 512m-year-old…
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Methane spiked after 2020 and the cause was unexpected
Methane concentrations in the atmosphere climbed at an unprecedented pace in the early 2020s due to a combination of weaker natural removal and rising emissions from warming wetlands, rivers, lakes, and agricultural areas. An international group…
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MIT Scientists Shrink Terahertz Light To Reveal Hidden Quantum “Jiggles” – SciTechDaily
- MIT Scientists Shrink Terahertz Light To Reveal Hidden Quantum “Jiggles” SciTechDaily
- Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons MIT Physics
- Imaging a terahertz superfluid plasmon in a two-dimensional…
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Astronomers celebrate cancellation of $10bn Chile project that threatened clearest skies in the world | Chile
The scientific community is celebrating the cancellation of a project which would have threatened the clearest skies in the world in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The proposed $10bn, 3,000-hectare green hydrogen and ammonia production facility, known…
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Powerful Stellar Explosions May Be Source Of Elusive PeV Neutrinos
Scientists are investigating the potential source of a recently detected ultra-high energy neutrino, KM3-230213A, observed by the KM3NeT Collaboration. Mainak Mukhopadhyay from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Kavli Institute for…
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Scientists develop sustainable food packaging from fish skin biofilm
Brazilian researchers create biodegradable, collagen-based packaging film from tambatinga fish skin, offering plastic alternative and adding value to aquaculture waste streams.
Tambatinga is the result of crossing tambaqui with…
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Carl Sagan’s 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney
The more informed we are, the more successful we’ll be in our decision-making endeavors. That’s only true up to a point: it’s only true if the information we’ve acquired is accurate and truthful. Making good decisions…
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Shroud of Turin: Medieval bas-relief hypothesis challenged on scientific grounds
The journal Archaeometry, which had in the past featured a hypothesis of Brazilian researcher Moraes regarding the origin of the Shroud of Turin, publishes a rebuttal by specialists Casabianca, Marinelli, and Piana.
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Newly Discovered Fossil Among The Earliest Land Creatures to Enjoy a Salad : ScienceAlert
Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, a newly described species that was one of the largest, most feared land animals of its time – at least, if you were a fern. Hailing from 307 million years ago, this strange tetrapod was among the earliest known…
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