Scientists said this week that they have detected an encouraging sign of life on a planet…
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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How Three Billion Facebook Users Helped Map Global Migration
Tracking migrants is a challenging task that policymakers, researchers and humanitarian organizations have long struggled to achieve. The data they use is often outdated, incomplete and inconsistent and this hampers efforts to understand movement…
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Astronomers found ‘strongest evidence yet’ of alien life
Could we finally be close to answering one of humanity’s oldest and most profound questions? Thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers believe they’ve uncovered the strongest evidence yet of potential life on other…
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Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory
Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Pittsburg facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity as the union representative, says that before they lost their jobs, the researchers at the Morgantown facility had been actively studying how Gulf War…
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Here’s the truth about your ‘digital dementia’ risk
Contrary to what you might think, technology could actually offer some surprising benefits in slowing cognitive decline as we age. At least that’s according to a new study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.
“The terms ‘brain rot’…
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Experts say a certain tick bite might make you allergic to red meat
It’s nearly peak tick season and bites from the bugs may come with dangerous consequences…
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Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have found one of the most promising indications that there could be extraterrestrial life on another planet. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected what they believe could be biosignatures of…
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Yellowstone’s Magma Reservoir Reveals Insights Into Future Volcanic Activity
Ask any geologist about the magma reservoir beneath Yellowstone, and they’ll tell you that it’s there. But where, exactly, is a lot tougher to explain.
A new paper published in Nature suggests, however, that a team of researchers has finally…
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Measles Cases Are Rising. Other Preventable Diseases Could Follow
As the United States grapples with rising measles cases and outbreaks in several states, another vaccine-preventable disease is quietly spreading throughout the country.
This year, there have been at least 7,599 cases of pertussis, also known as…
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Scientists share 70-year, multi-billion dollar plan to build tunnel under the Alps
The Large Hadron Collider has been responsible for astounding advances in physics: the…
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