There’s not a whole lot to spot on the surface of the moon tonight, but if you look hard enough you’ll see one or two interesting features. And as we approach the New Moon, this will be…
Category: 7. Science
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The Best Of Science Friday, 2025
This year got off to an exciting start as we welcomed Flora Lichtman back to Science Friday as host of the show, alongside Ira. From day one, she’s delighted listeners with weird, wonderful, eye-opening stories, including an award-winning…
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Astrocyte diversity across space and time
When it comes to brain function, neurons get a lot of the glory. But healthy brains depend on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. The most abundant of the brain’s non-neuronal cells are astrocytes,…
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Developing a QSPR model for Alzheimer’s drugs using topological indices and M-polynomial: A computational study
Liu, X., Yang, B., Liu, Q., Gao, M. & Luo, M. The long-term neuroprotective effect of MIND and mediterranean diet on patients with alzheimer’s disease. Sci. Rep. 15, 32725. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-17055-5 (2025).
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Helium isotope could help pinpoint location of buried gold deposits
Scientists have found that with the help of a new chemical analysis, they could pinpoint the location of buried gold deposits beneath Scotland and Ireland. Sophisticated new chemical analysis of gases trapped in rocks for millions of years has…
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Thrills designed for ‘wimps’ make giant leap in tourism industry
Self-deprecating ‘wonang travel’ trend prizes comfort, minimal exertion over adrenaline rush
Escalators built into the mountainside give hikers a “no-sweat ascent” choice in the Shenxianju scenic area in Taizhou, Zhejiang province. (PROVIDED TO… Continue Reading
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JWST Catches Record-Breaking Planet Sprouting Two Enormous Tails : ScienceAlert
About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two enormous tails of helium that stretch more than halfway around its star.
This is the first time such a spectacle has ever…
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Starlink claims Chinese launch nearly hit broadband sat • The Register
Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite.
“A few days ago, 9 satellites were deployed from a launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in…
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VLA Detects First Radio Emission From Type Ibn Supernova
Astronomers have picked up the first confirmed radio signal from a rare kind of stellar explosion called a Type Ibn supernova, using the NSF’s Very Large Array in New Mexico. The event, SN 2023fyq, gave researchers an 18-month window to track…
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Radio Observations Find Nothing at Omega Centauri’s Heart
Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way’s largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere containing roughly ten million stars. Earlier this year, astronomers found evidence that an intermediate mass black hole…
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