Wildfires on Alaska’s North Slope are more frequent and more severe now than they have been at any point over the past 3,000 years, research suggests.
The findings are based on satellite data, as well as on soil pulled from peatlands that…
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What does it take to eat like an Olympian?
From skating to curling, the thrilling sports of the Winter Olympics have plenty of science behind them. Follow our coverage here to learn more.
Food is fuel. It sounds like a cliché, but if you are a Winter Olympian, that phrase is more like a…
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The Radical Plan To Build An 80-Kilometer Wall Around The "Doomsday Glacier" Of Antarctica – IFLScience
- The Radical Plan To Build An 80-Kilometer Wall Around The “Doomsday Glacier” Of Antarctica IFLScience
- Scientists plan 50-mile wall to block warm seas melting the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Interesting Engineering
- Scientists Tried Drilling Into…
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New experiments suggest Earth's core contains up to 45 oceans' worth of hydrogen – Phys.org
- New experiments suggest Earth’s core contains up to 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen Phys.org
- Earth’s core may contain as much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen, scientists find CNN
- The largest reservoir of hydrogen on Earth may be hiding in its…
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NASA Thinks Boeing’s Starliner Can Fly in April, Which Is Hilarious
Starliner’s first crewed test flight didn’t exactly go as planned. NASA and Boeing are still troubleshooting the technical issues that left astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore stuck on the International Space Station…
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Scientists Have Discovered Ancient Human Footprints Buried in Remote Desert Sands
Footprints found in White Sands, New Mexico, are challenging everything we thought we knew about the first humans in North America. These prints, preserved in ancient mud, date back over 20,000 years, suggesting that humans were walking…
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World’s oldest known sewn clothing may be stitched pieces of ice age hide unearthed in Oregon cave
The oldest known sewn clothing in the world may be pieces of animal hide that Indigenous people stitched together with plant and animal cords and then left in an Oregon cave around 12,000 years ago, during the last ice age, a new study…
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Did you see it? Videos capture fireball meteor light up sky over Ohio – WLWT
- Did you see it? Videos capture fireball meteor light up sky over Ohio WLWT
- Doorbell camera captures fireball meteor in central Indiana WISH-TV
- Fireball meteor lights up night skies over Ohio. See the videos The Columbus Dispatch
- Fireball reported…
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Majorana qubits become readable as quantum capacitance detects even-odd states – Phys.org
- Majorana qubits become readable as quantum capacitance detects even-odd states Phys.org
- Single-shot parity readout of a minimal Kitaev chain Nature
- QuTech Demonstrates Key Parity Readout For Majorana Qubits Quantum Zeitgeist
- Breakthrough in…
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Mitochondrial Ca2+ efflux controls neuronal metabolism and long-term memory across species
Animals
Rodents
The rats used in the study to prepare primary cultures were either male or female, and were of the Sprague–Dawley strain Crl:CD(SD), which are bred worldwide by Charles River Laboratories according to the International Genetic…
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