The investigators taking part in the global MOSAiC expedition with the Polarstern icebreaker survey have discovered fish and squid in deep water in the mid-Arctic Ocean.Suddenly four very large fish were captured at a depth of 350-400 meters. An added shock to the research study group was the fact that three of the fish...
Credit: University of CambridgeScientists have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used to develop realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications.The low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by scientists at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature, and humidity. Furthermore, unlike earlier self-healing robots, they can additionally partially repair themselves at room...
According to the most recent projections, sea levels along the United States coastline rise will rise quicker within the following three decades than they did in the previous 100 years, bringing more flooding to coastal cities like New York and Miami.According to a report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sea levels...
The Oral Microbiome and Naturally Occurring Alveolar Bone Loss: An Experimental InvestigationIt is increasingly obvious that the collection of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that dwell on and within us—the human microbiome—significantly benefits our health. The microbiome as a supplement has been described as a management tool for immune cells that affect bone health in...
Nottingham University Hospitals Trust runs the Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital. Credit: LDRSSeventy families have agreed to take part in an independent evaluation of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH). The review's goal is to "drive rapid improvements in maternity services. An examination discovered 46 newborns with brain injury and...
Loui (the juvenile male orangutan) using the core as an active element to vertically strike on the concrete floor of the testing room during the Flake Trading condition of Experiment 2. Credit: Motes-Rodrigo et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Untrained, captive orangutans can finish two significant steps in the routine of stone tool use:...
It's a compelling (and scary) theoryAdvanced CivilizationsA Harvard researcher has a fascinating theory concerning just how our universe was formed: in a research laboratory by a superior "class" of lifeform.Avi Loeb, the bestselling author also the former chair of Harvard's astronomy department, wrote an op-ed in Scientific American recently positing that the universe might...
Credit: Vladislav TchakarovHuman beings unexpectedly changed around 13,000 years ago. Hunter-gatherer societies began to transform their lifestyle quickly. They began to construct permanent settlements and focused their efforts on farming. The earliest man-made megalithic structures around were also constructed around this period. Was a comet collision the reason behind this fast advancement of human...
The radio lobes of Alcyoneus. (Oei et al., arXiv, 2022).Astronomers have just discovered an absolute beast of a galaxyHiding some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching five megaparsecs into space. That is 16.3 million light-years long and represents the biggest recognized structure of galactic origin.The finding highlights our poor...
Credit: WOODRUFF ET AL. (2022); CORBIN RAINBOLTPeculiar growths on dinosaur neckbones hint at old infectionIt takes much force to cough a loogie up a nearly 4-meter-long neck, but that is what one dinosaur had to do. The Guardian reports that paleontologists have discovered unusual nodules on the neck of a 150-million-year-old sauropod, proof of the...
