Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground - Space Daily
Space Daily Jul 09

Physics says time travel into the future is not a thought experiment — every astronaut who has orbited Earth has returned a fraction of a second younger than they would have been if they had stayed on the ground - Space Daily

Time travel into the future sounds like a fiction problem until it is written in the language of clocks....

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A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision - ScienceDaily
Science Daily Jul 09

A vitamin A discovery is changing what scientists know about vision - ScienceDaily

A surprising discovery is reshaping scientists' understanding of how humans develop sharp central vision before bir...

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Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert Jul 09

Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence - ScienceAlert

Biologists have long believed that having a large brain, relative to your body, might go hand-in-hand with being part of...

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In nearly seventy years of deep-sea exploration, researchers compiled 43,681 submersible dive records — and found that humans have visually observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, according to a Science - Space Daily
Space Daily Jul 08

In nearly seventy years of deep-sea exploration, researchers compiled 43,681 submersible dive records — and found that humans have visually observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area roughly the size of Rhode Island, according to a Science - Space Daily

In almost seven decades of deep-sea exploration, the direct human view of the deep ocean floor is still smaller than man...

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100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds - Live Science
Live Science Jul 08

100,000 years ago, one of the earliest Homo sapiens outside Africa was stabbed in the face, analysis finds - Live Science

A microscopic analysis of the skull of Qafzeh 25 revealed a cut mark likely made by a stone tool 100,000 years ago....

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NASA telescope discovers new 'super-Jupiter' exoplanet nearly 40,000 light-years from Earth - FOX Weather
Foxweather.com Jul 08

NASA telescope discovers new 'super-Jupiter' exoplanet nearly 40,000 light-years from Earth - FOX Weather

NASA's TESS identified a large new exoplanet orbiting far from its host star thanks to ripples in the space-time continu...

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New CRISPR method makes it possible to control protein production in cells - Phys.org
Phys.Org Jul 08

New CRISPR method makes it possible to control protein production in cells - Phys.org

The speed at which a cell produces proteins is a decisive factor in determining whether it divides, specializes or retai...

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NASA begins funding hardware for 'Skyfall' Mars helicopter mission - Space
Space.com Jul 08

NASA begins funding hardware for 'Skyfall' Mars helicopter mission - Space

NASA is hoping to launch the mission to Mars in 2028....

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Artemis II astronauts reunite with their moonship 3 months after record-breaking flight - AP News
Associated Press Jul 08

Artemis II astronauts reunite with their moonship 3 months after record-breaking flight - AP News

The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon earlier this year are back in Florida, reunited with their capsule an...

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Space Daily Jul 08

A neutron star can pack more mass than our entire Sun into a sphere only about 20 kilometres across — roughly the size of a city — and a teaspoon of its material would weigh about a billion tonnes on Earth, more than every human being alive combined. - Space Daily

A neutron star is one of the few objects in astronomy where the familiar scale of a city and the unfamiliar scale of nuc...

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New study suggests Earth could escape the sun's fiery demise however humanity's fate remains sealed - FOX Weather
Foxweather.com Jul 08

New study suggests Earth could escape the sun's fiery demise however humanity's fate remains sealed - FOX Weather

What happens to Earth when the sun dies? A groundbreaking study released by Astronomy and Astrophysics reveals a fate ...

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NASA’s Pluto Probe Is Finally Approaching a Major Boundary of Deep Space - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com Jul 08

NASA’s Pluto Probe Is Finally Approaching a Major Boundary of Deep Space - Gizmodo

The probe is set to become the third human-made object to leave the solar system, but it must first cross this mysteriou...

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The Branching Dendrite Secret Behind Human Cognitive Superiority - Neuroscience News
Neurosciencenews.com Jul 08

The Branching Dendrite Secret Behind Human Cognitive Superiority - Neuroscience News

A new study proves individual human cortical neurons have the computational complexity of an entire deep artificial neur...

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Phys.Org Jul 08

Scientists find gas emissions from rocks may have contributed to ancient climate swings, mass extinctions - Phys.org

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Dimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño. No, Really - WIRED
Wired Jul 08

Dimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño. No, Really - WIRED

As worries about a growing super El Niño mount, new findings suggest a radical solution to mitigating its impacts....

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About 50 kilometres above Venus’ surface, the crushing heat and pressure below give way to temperatures and air pressure surprisingly close to Earth’s, a region NASA has described as the most Earth-surface-like environment in the solar system — at least b - Space Daily
Space Daily Jul 08

About 50 kilometres above Venus’ surface, the crushing heat and pressure below give way to temperatures and air pressure surprisingly close to Earth’s, a region NASA has described as the most Earth-surface-like environment in the solar system — at least b - Space Daily

Venus is usually introduced as the planet that makes Mars look gentle. Its surface is hot enough to melt lead, its press...

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Why a gene-editing breakthrough has some experts worried - CNN
CNN Jul 08

Why a gene-editing breakthrough has some experts worried - CNN

New research shows it’s possible to edit the DNA of human embryos with more precision. But scientists warn it’s stil...

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Chromatin landscape and epigenetic heterogeneity of acute myeloid leukaemia - Nature
Nature.com Jul 08

Chromatin landscape and epigenetic heterogeneity of acute myeloid leukaemia - Nature

An ATAC-seq-based approach is used to classify acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) into 16 epigenomic subgroups, and provides ...

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Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problem - Live Science
Live Science Jul 08

Secretive Chinese probe snaps first photo of Earth's mysterious 'quasi-moon' — and it may pose a big problem - Live Science

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has captured the first close-up photo of one of Earth's "quasi-moons," Kamo'oalewa. However...

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Ancient Roman May Have Been the World’s First Collector of Sea Monster Fossils - Gizmodo
Gizmodo.com Jul 08

Ancient Roman May Have Been the World’s First Collector of Sea Monster Fossils - Gizmodo

Whether this person was an early paleontologist or a fanatic of Greek myths, researchers aren't sure....

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Anatomy of a seafloor spreading event captured by in situ seismogeodesy - Nature
Nature.com Jul 08

Anatomy of a seafloor spreading event captured by in situ seismogeodesy - Nature

By combining hydroacoustic, direct-path ranging and bottom-pressure measurements, in situ observations of a rifting even...

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Non-genotoxic transplantation and in vivo selection through epitope editing - Nature
Nature.com Jul 08

Non-genotoxic transplantation and in vivo selection through epitope editing - Nature

Epitope editing of KIT enables antibody-based, non-genotoxic conditioning that selectively enriches therapeutic BCL11A-e...

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Ancient feeding-related neuropeptides regulate alloparenting in ants - Nature
Nature.com Jul 08

Ancient feeding-related neuropeptides regulate alloparenting in ants - Nature

Pharmacological screening and behavioural assays in ants identify two specific neuropeptides that have key and opposite ...

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Air-permeable hydrogels through viscoelastic phase separation of aerogels - Nature
Nature.com Jul 08

Air-permeable hydrogels through viscoelastic phase separation of aerogels - Nature

Viscoelastic phase separation is used to fabricate non-collapsible, air-rich networks in high-water-content hydrogels co...

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