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What users need to know about privacy and data after 23andMe’s bankruptcy filing
23andMe, one of the first companies to provide direct-to-consumer genetic testing kits, has filed for bankruptcy. Since its founding in 2006, it has...
theconversation.com - 7 days ago
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Infomorphic Neurons Bring AI One Step Closer to Brain-Like Learning
Researchers have developed a new kind of artificial neuron—called infomorphic neurons—that can independently learn and self-organize with nearby...
neurosciencenews.com - 7 days ago
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Scientists sawed a human brain into 703 cubes to map its energy system for the first time
Your brain burns 20 percent of your body’s energy and now we know exactly where it goes....
zmescience.com - 7 days ago
nature / science
Metal detector find may rewrite history of 7th century helmet
The Sutton Hoo helmet may have belonged to an Anglo-Saxon king. Small decorative details on an iconic helmet belonging to “Britain’s Tutankhamen” could revise our understanding of early medieval Anglo-Saxon history. But the reexamination isn’t due to anything new found at the famous archeological...
popsci.com - 7 days ago
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Ball milling breaks PFAS down into industrially useful fluoride source
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – the persistent, bio-accumulative anthropogenic pollutants colloquially known as ‘forever chemicals’ –...
chemistryworld.com - 7 days ago
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Mysterious artifacts from King Tut's tomb might have been used in 'awakening Osiris' ritual
Four trays and four staff found in Tutankhamun's burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings may have been used in an ancient Egyptian ritual, a new...
livescience.com - 7 days ago
nature / science
Vietnam’s beloved fish sauce faces an uncertain future amid climate change and overfishing
The country’s heritage is under threat, and not only from giant conglomerates that mass-produce fish sauce in factories. Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago: stay in his small village, helping his parents carry on the family’s centuries-old tradition of making fish...
fastcompany.com - 7 days ago
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Sperm Stem Cells Were Used for the First time in an Attempt to Restore Fertility
In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that were collected from...
wired.com - 7 days ago
nature / science
What Caused the Devastating Earthquake in Myanmar?
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar on Friday afternoon local time near the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay. The quake caused...
nautil.us - 7 days ago
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Eating Yoghurt Could Lower Your Risk of Bowel Cancer, Evidence Shows
Hard on the heels of impressive research findings that a glass of milk is good for reducing cancer risk, another recent study has highlighted the...
sciencealert.com - 7 days ago
nature / science
Rain Fell for the First time on Greenland’s Ice Sheet
Rainfall on Greenland’s ice sheet is an event that has captivated weather enthusiasts and scientists alike. This unprecedented phenomenon raises...
weather-fox.com - 7 days ago
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Legendary U.S. Particle Collider Is About to Perform Its Final Smash
Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider kicked off its final year of operations this week, marking a quarter century of...
gizmodo.com - 7 days ago
nature / science / space
Saturday Citations: The universe doesn't care about your precious standard model
This week, ALMA researchers reported the discovery of oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Geologists believe unusual structures in rock in the...
phys.org - 7 days ago
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A New Cat Color Is Defying Genetic Expectations
From roots to tips, this fur tells a tale of evolutionary wonder. A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. • Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands that start out black, and become white the further they grow from the follicle. • It turns out the unique color...
popularmechanics.com - 8 days ago
nature / science
No microplastic particle is safe from bounty-hunting "microcleaners"
Wouldn't it be great if there were a way of chasing down waterborne microplastic particles and catching them for removal, as opposed to just...
newatlas.com - 8 days ago
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Reduced male hormone exposure may be linked to autism-like traits in males, study suggests
A new study published in Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has challenged a long-standing theory about why more males than females are...
psypost.org - 8 days ago
nature / science
Earth's storage of water in soil, lakes and rivers is dwindling. And it's especially bad for farming
University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu's family when they found...
phys.org - 8 days ago
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Why the cat wags her tail
In Cheshire, a fox is poised to pounce on its mate when a badger bursts from a bush. The badger starts chasing the fox, which keeps leaping away,...
aeon.co - 8 days ago
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“Cops, AI, drug companies”: Who wants to buy your DNA from 23andme?
The bankruptcy of personal genomics company 23andMe is a headline that has broken past the well-heeled haze of the business world — given, of course, its existential implications for millions of Americans’ genetic information. The company, founded in San Francisco 2006, and having served 15 million...
salon.com - 8 days ago
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Scientists Found a New Form of Matter That’s Half-Ice, Half-Fire—With Incredible Quantum Implications
It’s not actually made of fire and ice. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory discovered a new phase a matter called “half-ice, half-fire.” • This elemental moniker is a reference to the ordered (cold) and disordered (hot) state of an electron under an...
popularmechanics.com - 8 days ago
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The First Sightings of Hofstadter's Butterfly Emerged from a Happy Accident
Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its wings in the quantum world. Under the right...
scientificamerican.com - 8 days ago
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APOD: 2025 March 28 - Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
Lunar Dust and Duct Tape Image Credit: Apollo 17, NASA Explanation: Why is the Moon so dusty? On Earth, rocks are weathered by wind and water, creating...
nasa.gov - 8 days ago
nature / science
Earth’s oceans weren’t always blue, scientists say
If true, it could expand how we search for life elsewhere in the universe. Earth’s oceans may not have always been as brilliantly blue as they are today. In fact, there may have been a time when they weren’t blue at all. According to researchers at Japan’s Nagoya University, Earth’s earliest oceans...
popsci.com - 8 days ago
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If Correlation Does Not Mean Causation, How Do Scientists Prove Stuff?
The scientific method has evolved to include various ways to establish probable causal relationship and to work these likely explanations in...
iflscience.com - 8 days ago
nature / science
A rock sat in a school for years. Scientists say it’s a fossil jackpot.
The rock contained one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints ever documented in Australia, a recent study said. For two decades, Australian students walked by the 5-foot-long boulder in their school’s foyer unaware of its significance. When paleontologist Anthony Romilio finally...
washingtonpost.com - 8 days ago
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Fitting the ‘missing puzzle pieces’ – research sheds light on the deep history of social change in West Papua
Owing to its violent political history, West Papua’s vibrant human past has long been ignored. Unlike its neighbour, the independent country of Papua...
theconversation.com - 8 days ago
nature / science
Unexplained Structures Found Deep Underneath The Pacific Ocean
The formations might be either recent or ancient, scientists aren't certain yet....
iflscience.com - 8 days ago
nature / science
Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Over 4.5 billion years, volcanoes, asteroids, and climate change have wiped out millions of species. While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death. Extinction is not exclusive to dinosaurs. Our planet has gone through at least five...
popsci.com - 8 days ago
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COVID-19: The Evidence Lopsidedly Favors a Lab Leak
As we reflect on five years since the tumultuous start of the COVID pandemic (even if we just wish to forget it ever happened), the most fundamental...
realclearscience.com - 8 days ago
nature / science
What Caused the Magnitude 7.7 Myanmar and Thailand Earthquake?
On March 28, at around midday local time , tens of millions of people in Southeast Asia felt the earth below their feet violently rupture. A magnitude...
scientificamerican.com - 8 days ago
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Ask Ethan: What does it mean to live in a quantum universe?
In all the Universe, with all we’ve learned about the underlying properties of reality, perhaps nothing mystifies our intuition more than the notion...
bigthink.com - 8 days ago
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A Star May Explode Today 3,000 Light-Years Away; Here's Where You Should Look
There is a star about 3,000 light-years away from Earth which may or may not explode today. But if it does, there's a good chance you'll be able to spot it if you're looking at the right spot at the right time . This star in question is a white dwarf which is part of the binary star system named T...
mashable.com - 8 days ago
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This bold theory could reshape how our Universe began
We might not know when the Big Bang actually was The age of the Universe can be derived by measuring its current rate of expansion and then...
sciencefocus.com - 8 days ago
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A small device tracked older adults’ conversations—and revealed a hidden link to brain health
A new study published in Scientific Reports has found that older adults who talk more throughout their day tend to perform better on tests of...
psypost.org - 8 days ago
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Webb telescope's new photo isn't just rare. It's psychedelic.
"A rare cosmic phenomenon." Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to survey distant galaxies spotted an unusual, chance phenomenon called an "Einstein ring." It's not an actual object, but a warped, mind-bending optical illusion. "The picture features a...
mashable.com - 8 days ago
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Pfizer accused of major tax-dodging scheme
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Morning. Today, we start...
statnews.com - 8 days ago
science / space / technology
Could a Solar Flare Knock Us Back to the Stone Age?
When people hear the term “solar flare,” they might imagine a large burst of energy erupting from the sun. While this image isn’t far from the truth,...
weather-fox.com - 8 days ago
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Listen to Weather Satellites—or the Universe—With the Versatile Discovery Dish
The U.S. government recommends that everyone have a disaster kit that includes a weather radio. These radios tune to a nationwide network run by the...
ieee.org - 8 days ago
beauty / science
Does Sleeping on Your Side Cause Facial Asymmetry?
If you're wondering why one side isn't as defined or “snatched,” read this. Social media has a way of making us analyze every little thing about our...
self.com - 8 days ago
science / cool stuff
Listen to a Shark ‘Chirp’ in First-of-Its-Kind Audio Recording
New research reveals that rig sharks produce loud chirping sounds, challenging the belief that sharks are silent. Many sharks, such as great whites,...
mentalfloss.com - 8 days ago
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Toxic Mars Dust Adds Another Health Risk to Astronauts' List
As if radiation and microgravity aren't enough. Astronauts already deal with a host of health risks each time they visit space, but if they ever make...
extremetech.com - 8 days ago
nature / science / space
Polar sea ice continues steep decline; but will a troubled world notice?
Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving the planet increasingly vulnerable to the...
mongabay.com - 8 days ago
nature / science / space / technology
A Scientist Thinks We Live in a Simulation—and That He’s Found Proof of the Universe’s Source Code
Could the hypothesized Second Law of Infodynamics finally deliver the ‘smoking gun’ evidence? For more than two decades, some scientists have pondered the possibility that life as we know is actually an unfathomably complex simulation. • While some suggest looking for “glitches” to find evidence of the...
popularmechanics.com - 8 days ago
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A museum heist 70 years ago is still causing a flutter in butterfly science today
Lepidopterist Michael Braby is sitting in his lab, peering at a photo of a butterfly specimen on his computer screen – just as he’s done countless...
cosmosmagazine.com - 8 days ago
nature / science
Brazil’s Rivers Are Leaking
In 2017, Paulo Tarso Oliveira, a professor of hydrology at the Universidade de São Paulo, came across a news report about a small village along the...
eos.org - 8 days ago
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Can trauma from violence be genetically inherited? Scientists debate Syria refugee study
Study finds genetic imprints in three generations of Syrian refugees. Researchers urge caution in interpreting findings and call for replication. A...
nature.com - 8 days ago
nature / science / space
NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
"This mission's trailblazing research is rewriting the textbooks on solar science by going to a place no human-made object has ever been." NASA's...
space.com - 8 days ago
nature / science
Kenya’s cities adopt Miyawaki method to restore lost ecological glory
NAIROBI, Kenya — Many African cities are now characterized by deafening traffic noises and suffocating gas emissions, and are becoming limitless...
mongabay.com - 8 days ago
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When, where to see the March partial solar eclipse
March 2025 already had a total lunar eclipse, and coming up next is a partial solar eclipse on Saturday, March 29. During the partial eclipse, the moon will pass in front of the sun and cast a shadow on parts of the Northern Hemisphere, according to NASA. Only part of the sun will be blocked, giving...
aol.com - 8 days ago
science / books / nature
Mysterious Giants May Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists
Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to...
sciencealert.com - 8 days ago
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