This week, researchers reported that weight and health markers may rebound when patients stop using some of the new hormonal gastric inhibitory polypeptide drugs. A prototype device can restore lost olfactory sense. And a new universal law…
Category: Other Sciences
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Saturday Citations: Cute squid with scary name; potential detection of dark matter; fate of the AMOC
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Two Australopithecus Species Co-Existed in Ethiopia 3.4 Million Years Ago
In 2009, paleoanthropologists found eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments at the paleontological site of Woranso-Mille in the Afar Rift in Ethiopia. According to new research, the fossil —…
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Archaeologists uncover a 2,000-year-old crop in the Canary Islands
Lentils currently cultivated in the Canary Islands have an unbroken local history that reaches back nearly 2,000 years. This remarkable continuity has been revealed by the first genetic analysis of archaeological lentils, conducted by researchers…
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Birds May Possess Fundamental Forms of Conscious Perception: Study
In their new paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Ruhr University Bochum researchers Gianmarco Maldarelli and Onur Güntürkün highlight three central areas in which birds show remarkable parallels to conscious…
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There Are Three Types of Phenomenal Consciousness, Researchers Say
Our conscious experience makes up our lives, often through positive pleasure: I feel the warm Sun on my skin, I hear the singing of birds, I enjoy the moment. Yet we also often experience pain: I feel my knee hurt from falling on the stairs, I…
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Charles Darwin's address book: A new window into his private world
The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin’s personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse into the life and work of the great scientist.
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Counterfeit Lithium-Ion Batteries Infiltrate Market
As an auditor of battery manufacturers around the world, University of Maryland mechanical engineer Michael Pecht frequently finds himself touring spotless production floors. They’re akin to “the cleanest hospital that you could…
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Info to decipher secret message in Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters sells for close to $1M
The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia sold at auction for nearly $1 million, the auction house announced Friday.
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Scientists reveal kissing began millions of years before humans
A new investigation led by the University of Oxford reports that kissing may have originated in the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes roughly 21 million years ago. The research, published on November 19 in Evolution and Human…
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Deep Fission’s Plan for Underground Nuclear Reactors
By dropping a nuclear reactor 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) underground, Deep Fission aims to use the weight of a billion tons of rock and water as a natural containment system comparable to concrete domes and cooling towers. With the fission reaction…
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