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JWST has spotted sandy clouds on a distant alien world
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Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself
Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or...
Spiky ‘Sleep Spindles’ Linked to Acts of Learning
Distinctive bursts of sleeping-brain activity, known as sleep spindles, have long been generally associated with strengthening recently formed memories. But...
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People are buying up firewood and installing wood-burning stoves to heat their homes to reduce the impact of the hike...
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NASA Orders a Second Delay for the Artemis Moon-bound Rocket
NASA engineers held the countdown at T-40 minutes while troubleshooting for more than an hour. Finally, launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson...
Omicron-Specific Booster Shots: 5 Questions Answered
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. On Aug. 31,...
Apps used as alternatives to prison in US found to have privacy flaws
An analysis of 16 apps used as alternatives to incarceration found numerous privacy problems including in an app used to...
Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
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Could Dragons from Game of Thrones Actually Fly? Aeronautical Engineering and Math Says They Could
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Like many people,...
Blasting plastic with powerful lasers turns it into tiny diamonds
Simple plastics can be turned into tiny diamonds with a pulse of laser light, and a similar process may occur...
Could Climate Change Alter the Length of the Day?
Let's consider an example with an imaginary planet. In this solar system, the planet completes one orbit around its sun...
A Hormone May Boost Cognition in Down Syndrome
One in 800 children are born with Down syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. The vast majority...
Insulin-blocking protein may be the secret to queen ants’ long lives
Indian jumping ant queens live nine times longer than worker females in the same colony, which may be due to...
Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Spew a Complicated Treasure: Sand
That sediment is special, indeed. Desert sand from, say, the Sahara is no good for making concrete because it’s too...
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