Cut open a bone and you’ll see a subtly disordered structure. Tiny beams, called trabeculae, connect to one another in irregular patterns, distributing stress and lending bones an impressive toughness. What if human-made materials could exhibit…
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‘It felt like dread.’ Hear what severe depression can do to people
This is episode 2 of The Deep End. Listen to more episodes here.
Depression can affect not just the mind, but the body, too. Inner experiences of mental struggles are private. But in this episode, Jon Nelson and another volunteer,…
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Giant camel-like creatures lived thousands of years longer than once thought
Some species of megafauna might have existed for much longer than the paleontological canon suggests.
Current thinking says that ancient, large animals such as ground sloths went extinct about 11,000 years ago — at the beginning of…
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A New Blood Test Can Predict Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is a complication that arises in five to eight percent of pregnancies. It causes high blood pressure (hypertension) and may also cause premature birth, organ dysfunction. It can also increase the…
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Presidential Cancer Initiatives in the United States
Today, the United States celebrates Presidents’ Day, a federal holiday recognizing all the United States Presidents, past and present. Beginning as an unofficial reembrace of America’s first President,…
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How Dinosaur Extinctions Created an Environment That Contributed to Our Fruit-Eating Primate Ancestors
Newswise — The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that helped fruits evolve, thereby indirectly shaping the evolution of our own…
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Seagrass-rafted large benthic foraminifera transported into the deep Red Sea
Narayan, G. R. et al. Response of large benthic foraminifera to climate and local changes: Implications for future carbonate production. Sedimentology 69, 121–161 (2022).
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Harnessing 3D microarchitecture of pterosaur bone using multi-scale X-ray CT for aerospace material design
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Does Diabetes Drive Antibiotic Resistance?
Bacterial pathogens can cause serious infections. So many of them are becoming resistant to the effects of antibiotics that resistant bacteria now contribute to the deaths of almost 5 million people every year…
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The mood is ‘uncertain, anxious’ at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting
BOSTON — The official theme of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held February 13–15, is “Science Shaping Tomorrow.”
The unofficial theme is “uncertainty.”
With thousands of…
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