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An ancient animal called Auroralumina attenboroughii lived between 557 million and 562 million years ago. The earliest known living animal relative, Auroralumina attenboroughii, is a relative of current jellyfish, according to a recent study. The specimen, which bears Sir David Attenborough’s name in honor of the renowned naturalist, explicitly refuted the notion that animal body

In many leading scientific nations, early-career researchers who arrive from other countries are playing a growing part in research. The proportion of postdoctoral researchers on temporary visas in the United States, for example, rose from 39% in 2009 to 56% in 2019, while that of research assistants working in the United Kingdom but born elsewhere

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Researchers have no idea why the duration of a day is abruptly becoming extended, even with the aid of scientific instruments as well as accurate astrophysical data. This has serious implications just merely for conventional atomic clocks, yet likewise for GPS as well as related technology that regulate the contemporary lives. Longer Duration of Daylight

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With some assistance from a group of environmentalists, an iguana species that vanished from one of the Galápagos Islands about 200 years ago seems to be making a comeback. Iguanas’ Comeback in an Island in the Galápagos (Photo : John Cobb/Unsplash) Charles Darwin was the last person to see a Galápagos land iguana on Ecuador’s

Bhasha Mewar has had it with doctors. Over the past two years, Mewar has spent nearly all of her life savings seeing heart and respiratory specialists, haematologists, urologists, dermatologists and more, in a desperate bid to tame her long-COVID symptoms. She has taken a slew of drugs: beta blockers to calm her racing heart, steroid

On 15 January 2022, the Tongan volcano known as Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai (hereafter, Hunga Tonga) erupted explosively, sending a plume of ash as high as 55 kilometres into the atmosphere and causing sonic booms that were heard as far away as Alaska. The eruption triggered the first global volcanic tsunami since the Indonesian volcano Krakatau

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended the distribution and use of an anti-HIV injectable drug derived from Cabotegravir, an antiretroviral medication used to treat the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its late stage, lethal infection acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Cabotegravir has been widely used in the form of tablets and as intramuscular injections. However, the

All crops have been modified through some form of improvement, whether to enhance yield, taste, resilience or another factor. My passion is to continue accelerating the development of crop varieties that are more resistant to climate change and pests. This will make food supplies more secure and will also improve the quality of life for

The intensity of allergic responses like hay fever and asthma may vary depending on the various geographic and climatic zones from which ragweed pollen originates as well as the level of environmental pollution. Different plant species’ pollen displays varying degrees of aggression. This is the finding of an inter-university research team that included members from

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Several Bronze Age empires throughout the Eastern Mediterranean experienced a dramatic swing for the worst at the exact same moment thousands of years ago. Both the Old Dynasty of Egypt as well as the Akkadian Dynasty fell, and the result was growing public socioeconomic upheaval throughout the Ancient Near Eastern region and the Aegean, shown

Sleep is more of a biological necessity rather than a habit alone; with scientific evidence showing that sleep brings a myriad of health factors, including those affecting the brain and other organs of the body. While conventional notions of sleep are evident even from anecdotal evidence, its main trigger and function still remains one of

Coloured transmision electron micrograph (TEM) of HIV particles (pink) budding from the surface of a T cell (blue).Credit: NIBSC/Science Photo Library An injectable drug that protects people at high risk of HIV infection has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO). Cabotegravir (also known as CAB-LA), which is given every two months,

After going back home from a vacation in Croatia, a terrified traveler experienced the shock of her life when she discovered 18 creepy crawly scorpions in her luggage. On Saturday, July 23, the woman had just returned from her vacation in the Adriatic and was unpacking at her house in Natternbach, a small village in

A white truffle (Tuber magnatum Pico) in the laboratory of Robin Pépinières, a nursery in Saint Laurent-du-Cros, France.Philippe Desmazes/AFP via Getty Images On 10 October 2019, a dog began pawing excitedly at the ground beneath a young oak tree in western France. Its owner eased it out of the way and pulled an Italian white

After being lost to science in 1925, a conservation team has now found a native magnolia tree species in a forest in Haiti for the first time in almost a century. The northern Haiti magnolia, or Magnolia emarginata, which has pure white flowers and unusually shaped leaves, was first discovered in the Morne Colombo forest,

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 05 August 2022 Artefacts exposed by penguins are the remnants of a hunting camp on Hornos Island off Chile. A hunting camp on Hornos Island establishes the southernmost presence of pre-industrial humans. Credit: Brian Buma Some 300 years ago, a group of people paddled through the remote, icy channels of the Tierra del

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An analysis revealed how the devastating intensification of extreme weather is causing people all over the world to lose their lives and means of support as a result of more deadly and frequent heatwaves, floods, wildfires, and droughts brought on by the climate crisis. (Photo : Wade Austin Ellis/Unsplash) Intensive Analysis The most thorough compilation

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Researchers have discovered that despite the soil purification efforts made in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the amount of particle radiocesium rapidly decreased while suspended river sediment levels remained consistently high upstream. Additionally, the length of unsustainable sediment impacts was shortened by the quick regrowth of vegetation. Future cleanup initiatives should evaluate the

A Falcon 9 rocket carried the Danuri probe into space.Credit: CNP/ABACA/Shutterstock South Korea’s first lunar mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 7.08 p.m. local time today, and is now on its way to the Moon. The successful launch of Danuri, officially known as the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, takes the country beyond

Some science-integrity sleuths choose to work under a pseudonym.Credit: tommaso79/Getty For years, a research-integrity sleuth who goes by the pseudonym Smut Clyde has been uncovering evidence of research misconduct. Alongside other science detectives, he has flagged hundreds of articles that are potentially products of paper mills: companies that churn out fake scientific articles that are

Fungi can be very complex multicellular organisms or single-celled organisms. They can be found in almost any habitat, but the majority of them prefer to live on land, primarily in soil or even on plant matter, as opposed to the sea or fresh water. The mechanism by which the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans is resilient to

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One of the most significant cereal diseases has spread around the world as a result of human activities. Researchers at the University of Zurich followed the development and dissemination of wheat powdery mildew via grain trade routes, and discovered that the genetic admixture of closely related powdery mildew species was crucial to the pathogen’s evolution

Chemicals Menaquinone-4 (V9378), phylloquinone (V3501), menadione (M5625), MK4 epoxide (75618), vitamin K3 epoxide (51455), α-TOC (T3251), warfarin (A2250), warfarin sodium (PHR1435), dicoumarol (M1390), l-buthionine sulfoximine (BSO; B2515) N-acetyl-l-cysteine (A7250), lipopolysaccharide (LPS; L2880) and MCC950 (5381200001) were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Ferrostatin-1 (Fer1; 17729), RSL3 (19288), FINO2 (25096), ML162 (20455), ML160 (23282) and staurosporine (81590) were purchased

Carbon dating hampered The burning of fossil fuels has shifted the composition of carbon isotopes in the air of the Northern Hemisphere enough to cancel out a signal, used in radiocarbon dating1, that stems from nuclear-weapons testing. Radiocarbon dating relies on the fact that living things absorb both stable carbon-12, which is the most common

Wildlife officials euthanized an alligator swimming in a pond in Florida after they found that the reptile has been stabbed with a knife, which is still on its head. According to Orlando news station WESH, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) stated that it opened an investigation into the incident after images of

Hear the latest from the world of science, with Nick Petrić Howe and Benjamin Thompson. Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 In this episode: 00:47 The economic benefits of social connections By looking at data gathered from billions of Facebook friendships, researchers have shown that having more connections with people from

A team of dedicated scientists working under the direction of marine biologist Amro Hamdoun is making ground-breaking discoveries on how sea urchins are assisting scientists in a laboratory in La Jolla. Hamdon explained that they are using the species Lytechinus pictus for this sort of study. They are indigenous to the seas off southern California and go

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On the first day of August, hailstorms, destructive wind gusts, and torrential downpours tore across parts of the Midwest. AccuWeather meteorologists predict that this weather pattern will continue through at least midweek. (Photo : Artturi Jalli/Unsplash) Thunderstorms Incoming On Monday morning, a line of thunderstorms plowed over central Indiana. Strong gusts from the storms brought down

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Ultrafast fashion has attracted hordes of young trendsetters who shop online for reasonably priced clothing amid rising inflation, but the growing industry conceals more serious environmental issues. The Bad Side of Ultrafast Fashion (Photo : JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images) Boohoo in the UK, SHEIN in China, and Emmiol in Hong Kong all use the

We first analyse how rates of friendship formation, EC, exposure and friending bias vary across settings. Figure 1 shows how the share of friends that an individual makes in each setting varies with their SES rank. For each SES ventile, it plots the average proportion of friends made in each setting, divided by the overall

Sample construction This section describes the methods used to generate the data analysed in this paper. A server-side analysis script was designed to automatically process the raw data, strip the data of personal identifiers, and generate aggregate results, which we analyzed to produce the conclusions in this paper. The script then promptly deleted the raw

A walking shark was discovered by scientists on a remote outcropping on the Papua New Guinea coast on May 3, 2022, at dusk. The small, tan-and-black-speckled shark slithered across a tide pool with just enough water to cover its belly while using its fins to propel itself forward. While dragging its body across the shore,

In this picture, I’m face to face with an anaesthetized 250-kilogram male grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), which was caught near Sparwood and Elkford in Canada. With help from conservation inspector Joe Caravetta, who is sitting next to me, and my field technician Laura Smit, I’m putting a GPS-enabled collar on the bear so that

It was Cheddar’s lucky day: from someone’s date night dinner to becoming a famous lobster in Hollywood, Florida. The orange lobster was indeed a rare sea creature, as she did not go unnoticed by one of the staff at the Red Lobster restaurant. Struck with its unusual golden color, one you see cooked on a

Cold fronts have been forecasted to cause wet and windy weather in the southern part of Western Australia state during next week starting Monday, August 1. Australian meteorologists forecasted that the weather system will bring strong winds, rainfall, and dangerous surf conditions in the said region. The Australian Government’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Friday,

Researchers at Texas A&M AgriLife have created a unique bioremediation technique for removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, chemical contaminants that endanger human health and the sustainability of ecosystems. The substance can potentially be used commercially to dispose of PFAS, sometimes referred to as “forever chemicals.” Eliminating Forever Chemicals (Photo : Photo by Cate

Can the regrowth of mangroves shield Miami from sea level rise? Mangrove-lined living shorelines can reduce floods, stabilize beaches, and cost landowners less money. (Photo : Photo by Timothy K on Unsplash) Also Read: Experts Question the Reliability of Blue Carbon in Restoring Coastal Vegetation   Protecting Florida This Florida island, which was more of a marshy

Noah Baker and Amy Maxmen discuss a radical plan for vaccine equity Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 Inequity has been a central feature of the COVID19 pandemic. From health outcomes to access to vaccines, COVID has pushed long-standing disparities out of the shadows and into the public eye and many

Ovarian cancer is a deadly malignant tumor and responsible for a number of women deaths worldwide, due to challenges faced by the medical industry when it comes to early detection and treatment. Known as the “silent killer” cancer, it has been reported to be the deadliest cancer affecting the reproductive organ of women. However, a