For the first time ever, scientists have tracked the brain activity of mammals navigating in the wild – not in a lab, but out in the open world.
A small group of fruit bats soared across the skies of Latham Island, doing what bats normally do….
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Science news this week: Comets light up the skies and race toward the sun, our galaxy’s mysterious glow is explained, and scientists tell us why time moves faster as we age
This week’s science news has been comet-ing thick and fast, with a flurry of reports on three dusty space snowballs that are hurtling through our cosmic backyard.
First are the comets Lemmon and SWAN, which reached their peaks in brightness in…
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Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers
These days, orbital real estate is growing increasingly cluttered with all manner of communication, observation, research, and navigation satellites. It’s a market worth $286 billion in 2022, projected to grow precipitously in the coming…
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Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers
These days, orbital real estate is growing increasingly cluttered with all manner of communication, observation, research, and navigation satellites. It’s a market worth $286 billion in 2022, projected to grow precipitously in the coming years…
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Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution
Compagno, L. J. V. Bullhead, mackerel and carpet sharks (Heterodontiformes, Lamniformes and Orectolobiformes). in Sharks of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of shark species known to date vol. Vol. 2 269 (FAO Species Catalogue…
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Neanderthals were more susceptible to lead poisoning than humans — which helped us gain an advantage over our cousins, scientists say
Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for up to 2 million years, researchers have discovered — overturning the belief that lead poisoning is a relatively modern phenomenon.
What’s more, widespread exposure to the toxic metal may…
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Potential Environmental Trigger For Autism Identified, 3I/ATLAS’s Tail Appears To Have Changed Direction, And Much More This Week
This week, almost 90 percent of US adults have at least one risk factor for a newly defined medical condition, the ancient Jomon of Japan might be one of the only groups of people outside Africa who had virtually no Denisovan DNA, and Iceland…
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Pristine 70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Found in Argentina Could Hold Rare Embryo
Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a perfectly preserved, 70-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur egg, sparking hopes it may contain an embryo.
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – A team of scientists in Argentina has unearthed…
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Pristine 70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Found in Argentina Could Hold Rare Embryo
Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a perfectly preserved, 70-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur egg, sparking hopes it may contain an embryo.
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – A team of scientists in Argentina has unearthed…
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Scientists uncover crucial role Jupiter played in Earth’s development
Without Jupiter, primitive Earth might have drifted too close to the sun, rendering it incapable of hosting life, a study from Rice University in Houston reveals.
That’s one potential interpretation from new research that started with another…
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