Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it’s been haunting us and our ancestors for almost 2 million years. Stranger still, exposure could actually have given humans an edge over our closest relatives.
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How scientists are using spinning dead stars to find ripples in the fabric of spacetime
Ripples in spacetime from both the merger of supermassive black holes and from the Big Bang can potentially be distinguished by the “beats” one of them plays, a new study suggests.
During the moment of the Big Bang, “quantum fluctuations” in the…
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How scientists are using spinning dead stars to find ripples in spacetime
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The pulsar at the heart of the Crab Nebula is one of many pulsars being monitored by timing arrays that are searching for gravitational waves. |…
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Geologists Discover The First Evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto-Earth” – astrobiology.com
- Geologists Discover The First Evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto-Earth” astrobiology.com
- Potassium-40 isotopic evidence for an extant pre-giant-impact component of Earth’s mantle Nature
- Scientists Just Found a Piece of Earth Older Than…
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Blending neuroscience, AI, and music to create mental health innovations | MIT News
Computational neuroscientist and singer/songwriter Kimaya (Kimy) Lecamwasam, who also plays electric bass and guitar, says music has been a core part of her life for as long as she can remember. She grew up in a musical…
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