When imagining what archaeologists find during excavations of ancient human remains, we might think only of bones — dry, silent, and skeletal clues to our past. But under ideal conditions, internal organs can survive thousands of years as well,…
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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Cephalopods Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children : ScienceAlert
An eye-opening experiment on cephalopods reinforces why it is so important for us to not underestimate animal intelligence.
A study published in 2021 presented cuttlefish with a new version of the ‘marshmallow test’, and the results showed…
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Is Using a Stair Machine the Same as Climbing Stairs?
Since the change in kinetic energy is still zero, this means that the positive change in gravitational potential energy is equal to the negative of the change in internal energy. Let’s say you have a mass of 75 kilograms (165 pounds). That means…
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Could a 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hold the key to new cancer discoveries?
Scientists believe dinosaur fossils could hold the key to new cancer discoveries and…
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Why we forget our childhoods
My earliest memories are more like nostalgic flickers. The sunlit kitchen and…
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Scientists fear Britain’s entire food chain contaminated as study finds microplastics in bugs
Plastic pollution is harming slugs, beetles, snails and earthworms, new…
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Nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan city with ‘remarkable’ architecture unearthed in Guatemala
Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the ruins of a 3,000-year-old Maya city featuring…
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Scientists finally crack mystery of how clapping generates sound
Scientists have finally unravelled the complex process that generates sound during handclaps,…
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Mystery behind why some cats purr more than others finally unravelled
Cats with a gene type associated with mixed breeds may purr more at their human companions…
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Scientists identify key shift that led to huge rise in bedbugs
Bedbugs may have been interrupting human sleep for more than 50,000 years, but it was only…
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