Slicing up and analyzing real, living, three-dimensional brain tissue comes with some obvious complications – as in, it tends to be needed by its owner. But scientists are now closer than ever to being able to grow realistic brain tissue…
Category: 7. Science
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NASA to Share Comet 3I/ATLAS Images From Spacecraft, Telescopes
NASA will share later this week new imagery and insights into interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known object to enter our solar system from beyond the Milky Way. T
Hubble recently captured a detailed image of 3I/ATLAS from a distance of…
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Secret chemical traces reveal life on Earth 3. 3 billion years ago
A recent investigation has identified new chemical signs of ancient life in rocks that formed over 3.3 billion years ago. The same research uncovered molecular evidence that oxygen-producing photosynthesis began nearly a billion years earlier…
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First Intact Neanderthal Skull Reveals Surprising Truth About Facial Traits
Homo neanderthalensis adult male. Reconstruction based on Shanidar 1 by John Gurche for the Human Origins Program, NMNH. Date 225,000 to 28,000 years. Credit: John Gurche and Chip Clark, CC-ZERO. / Public Domain Wikimedia Commons A digital…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks into Florida’s night sky carrying Starlink satellites to orbit (video)
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites in a nighttime liftoff from Florida’s Space Coast on Tuesday (Nov. 18).
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Archaeological discovery upends the timeline of human civilization
Humans reached, settled, and thrived on Mindoro and other Philippine islands far earlier than most scientific timelines for allow for the evolution of human civilization.
These people did not wait for cities, farming, or metalworking. They…
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With Neanderthals and Denisovans, We Are All the Same
Making the rounds on the mainstream media recently has been a story that “lead exposure helped shape human intelligence” (Science Daily). This just-so story, based on a smidgen of stains on teeth, accomplished two goals for Darwinians:…
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Team studies beryllium-7 variations over Antarctic regions of the Southern Ocean
Beryllium-7 produced by cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere is transported to near-ground levels via folding of the tropopause associated with low- and high-pressure systems,… Continue Reading
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Researchers Link Antarctic Ice Loss To Subsurface
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath Antarctic ice shelves that are causing aggressive melting, with major implications for…
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