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Families to Participate in Nottingham Maternity Inquiry

Healthcare, Midwifery, Science /

Seventy 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 19 stillbirths between 2010 and 2020. Managers stated they needed the service, rated inadequate by […]

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Orangutans Instinctively Use Hammers to Strike and Sharp Rocks to Cut

Biology, Evolution, Science /

Untrained, captive orangutans can finish two significant steps in the routine of stone tool use: striking rocks together and trimming utilizing a sharp stone, according to a research study by Alba Motes-Rodrigo at the University of Tübingen in Germany and colleagues, releasing February 16 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. The researchers examined tool making

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Harvard Scientist Suggests That Our Universe Was Developed in a Laboratory

Philosophy, Philosophy of Science /

It’s a compelling (and scary) theory Advanced Civilizations A 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

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Did Civilization Rise Because of a Comet Impact?

Astronomy, Planetary Geology, Science /

Human 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 civilization? An international

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The Largest Galaxy Ever Seen Has Just Been Discovered

Astronomy, Cosmology, Science /

Astronomers have just discovered an absolute beast of a galaxy Hiding 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 understanding of these colossi and what drives their

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Sick Dinosaur May Have Had the Earliest Known Cough

Archaeology, Science, Social /

Peculiar growths on dinosaur neckbones hint at old infection It 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 first known respiratory infection in

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DNA From Child Burials Shows ‘Exceptionally Different’ Human Landscape in Ancient Africa

Archaeology, Science, Social /

Children’s skeletons give genomes more than 3000 years old Central Africa is far too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive– or so scientists assumed. Currently, the bones of four children buried thousands of years earlier in a rock shelter in the grasslands of Cameroon have given enough DNA for scientists to examine. It

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Worms Frozen for 42,000 Years Come Back to Life

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Pleistocene age worms found in Arctic permafrost live and eat well after being defrosted some 42,000 years later. Two ancient nematodes are moving and eating normally again for the very first time since the Pleistocene age. The roundworms were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost and subsequently thawed out and resuscitated in Petri dishes. These

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Parker Solar Probe Captures Its First Images of Venus’ Surface in Visible Light

Astronomy, Planetary Science, Science /

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light pictures of the surface of Venus from space Surrounded in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually hidden from view. However, in two current flybys of the Earth, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the whole nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum– the

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