Eating oats for every meal for two days cut ‘bad’ cholesterol by up to 10 percent in a small clinical trial.
Surprisingly, the effect was still visible in participants’ blood six weeks after they returned to their normal diets.
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Why humanoid robots are learning everyday tasks faster than expected
Last September roboticist Benjie Holson posted the “Humanoid Olympic Games”: a set of increasingly difficult tests for humanoid robots that he demonstrated himself while dressed in a silver bodysuit. The challenges, such as opening a door…
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Night sky for tonight (March 2-3) — See the Worm Moon turn blood red as it enters Earth’s shadow
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Monday, March 2: A pre-eclipse moon and Regulus (after dark)
See the nearly full moon below Regulus on March 2. (Image credit: Starry Night.) Now 99.8%-illuminated, the waxing gibbous moon is mere hours…
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Echinus Geyser is back in action! For now…
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and…
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It’s almost twice the size of Washington state and stretches 18 miles down into the Earth’s crust – and it’s underwater too
Volcanoes inspire awe and fear around the world, with millions of people flocking to see these imposing landscapes each year, and teams of scientists monitoring their activity.
Earth is full of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes, which are…
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See the moon turn blood red in a total lunar eclipse this week
A celestial spectacle is set to grace the sky on Tuesday: a total lunar eclipse will make the moon appear blood red to millions of sky watchers across the globe.
Eclipses happen when the sun, moon and Earth align in precise ways. In this case,…
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Lady of Elche: A 2,400-year-old bust of a mysterious ‘highborn’ woman from pre-Roman Spain
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Name: Lady of Elche
What it is: A limestone bust
Where it is from: Elche, Spain
When it was made: Circa 400 to 350 B.C.
On a hot summer day in 1897, a farmer in Elche, a city on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, discovered a life-size painted…
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Women’s heart health, Artemis update, female reindeer antlers mystery
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup.
First up, a worrying prediction about women’s heart health.
A new analysis…
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Chilling out in the cold
When the outside temperature drops, our body may start to shiver. But that’s not all: it also triggers a series of coordinated reactions to maintain its temperature at 37°C. What are the mechanisms that help us withstand the cold –…
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Watch the ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse on March 3 with these free livestreams
Stargazers across the U.S. will be treated to a dramatic orbital display in the early hours of March 3, as Earth’s shadow falls across its natural satellite, giving rise to a“blood moon” total lunar eclipse.
Over 3.3 billion people across the…
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