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How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA - Quanta Magazine
🔬 science Quanta Magazine 6 months ago

How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA - Quanta Magazine

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.

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The Doomsday Glacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse - WIRED
🔬 science Wired 6 months ago

The Doomsday Glacier Is Getting Closer and Closer to Irreversible Collapse - WIRED

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.

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This Fungus Grew Inside Chernobyl's Nuclear Reactor, Feeding on Radiation, Now NASA Wants to Use It for Space Travel - Indian Defence Review
🔬 science Indiandefencereview.com 6 months ago

This Fungus Grew Inside Chernobyl's Nuclear Reactor, Feeding on Radiation, Now NASA Wants to Use It for Space Travel - Indian Defence Review

A strange black fungus discovered inside the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 doesn’t just resist radiation—it appears to feed off it.

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A Common Vitamin Could Help Protect Your Lungs From Air Pollution - ScienceAlert
🔬 science ScienceAlert 6 months ago

A Common Vitamin Could Help Protect Your Lungs From Air Pollution - ScienceAlert

Large doses of vitamin C may provide our lungs with a degree of protection from the harmful effects of fine particles in the air. Referred to as PM2.5, in reference to their micrometer-wide particle size, these pollutants have been linked to issues such as as…

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DNA Analysis Confirms Grim Tale from 800-Year-Old Norse Saga - ZME Science
🔬 science ZME Science 6 months ago

DNA Analysis Confirms Grim Tale from 800-Year-Old Norse Saga - ZME Science

A Norse saga, a man in a well, and a genetic study that confirmed a legend.

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Can We Really Dig Through the Earth? Here’s What No One Is Telling You! - The Daily Galaxy
🔬 science The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel 6 months ago

Can We Really Dig Through the Earth? Here’s What No One Is Telling You! - The Daily Galaxy

Ever wondered what it would take to drill to the center of the Earth? The answers are full of surprises.

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NASA's SPHEREx telescope completes its 1st cosmic map of the entire sky and it's stunning! - Space
🔬 science Space.com 6 months ago

NASA's SPHEREx telescope completes its 1st cosmic map of the entire sky and it's stunning! - Space

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to eventually create a home for us in it."

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Archaeologists find evidence of incest in Bronze Age Italy - The Jerusalem Post
🔬 science The Jerusalem Post 6 months ago

Archaeologists find evidence of incest in Bronze Age Italy - The Jerusalem Post

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases of such extreme parental consanguinity in the archaeological record.

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'Monster Stars' May Finally Have Been Glimpsed at The Dawn of Time - ScienceAlert
🔬 science ScienceAlert 6 months ago

'Monster Stars' May Finally Have Been Glimpsed at The Dawn of Time - ScienceAlert

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

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Earth's Atmosphere Is Leaking to the Moon: Scientists Uncover a Hidden Link Billions of Years in the Making - Indian Defence Review
🔬 science Indiandefencereview.com 6 months ago

Earth's Atmosphere Is Leaking to the Moon: Scientists Uncover a Hidden Link Billions of Years in the Making - Indian Defence Review

Earth’s atmosphere is escaping into space—and the Moon has been quietly collecting it for billions of years. Shocking new research reveals a hidden connection that could rewrite everything we know about Earth’s past.

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Buried for 375 Years, "Zealandia" Earth's Long-Lost 8th Continent Has Finally Been Identified Beneath the Pacific Ocean - The Daily Galaxy
🔬 science The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel 6 months ago

Buried for 375 Years, "Zealandia" Earth's Long-Lost 8th Continent Has Finally Been Identified Beneath the Pacific Ocean - The Daily Galaxy

Scientists have uncovered a vast hidden landmass beneath the Pacific—larger than India and missing from maps for centuries. Nearly invisible and long dismissed, this discovery is rewriting Earth’s geological story and revealing secrets buried since the age of…

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Star's Death Plunge Reveals Spacetime Twisting Around a Black Hole - ScienceAlert
🔬 science ScienceAlert 6 months ago

Star's Death Plunge Reveals Spacetime Twisting Around a Black Hole - ScienceAlert

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime around itself.

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Ancient sea anemone sheds light on animal cell type evolution - Phys.org
🔬 science Phys.Org 6 months ago

Ancient sea anemone sheds light on animal cell type evolution - Phys.org

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A neuron doesn't look nor behave like a muscle cell but has the sa…

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Northern Lights Forecast: Aurora Could Be Visible From These 15 States Sunday - Forbes
🔬 science Forbes 6 months ago

Northern Lights Forecast: Aurora Could Be Visible From These 15 States Sunday - Forbes

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Video captures a baby hummingbird behaving like a poisonous caterpillar - Earth.com
🔬 science Earth.com 6 months ago

Video captures a baby hummingbird behaving like a poisonous caterpillar - Earth.com

A white-necked jacobin hummingbird chick surprises scientists, scaring away wasps by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar.

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Life's first molecule: Borate boosts its formation, finds study - Phys.org
🔬 science Phys.Org 6 months ago

Life's first molecule: Borate boosts its formation, finds study - Phys.org

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists have been trying to solve for ages.

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Dinosaur Eggs Hold the Ultimate Time Capsule—And Scientists Just Cracked It - Indian Defence Review
🔬 science Indiandefencereview.com 6 months ago

Dinosaur Eggs Hold the Ultimate Time Capsule—And Scientists Just Cracked It - Indian Defence Review

Scientists have discovered that fossilized dinosaur eggshells can act as precise time clocks, unlocking ancient secrets.

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Archaeologists Excavated the Tower of London—and Unearthed Dozens of Hidden Skeletons - Yahoo
🔬 science Popular Mechanics 6 months ago

Archaeologists Excavated the Tower of London—and Unearthed Dozens of Hidden Skeletons - Yahoo

Excavations revealed everything from a 14th-century Black Death group burial to three skeletons from the late 12th or early 13th centuries buried in coffins.

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NASA Scientists Zoomed In on the Ocean — Then Spotted a Tiny Red Creature That Keeps Whales Alive - Indian Defence Review
🔬 science Indiandefencereview.com 6 months ago

NASA Scientists Zoomed In on the Ocean — Then Spotted a Tiny Red Creature That Keeps Whales Alive - Indian Defence Review

Off the New England coast, critically endangered whales are feeding on invisible swarms of red plankton—now suddenly visible from hundreds of miles above.

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Scientists found the last universal common ancestor for all life on Earth - The Brighter Side of News
🔬 science Thebrighterside.news 6 months ago

Scientists found the last universal common ancestor for all life on Earth - The Brighter Side of News

New research suggests LUCA was a complex microbe that lived about 4.2 billion years ago, reshaping ideas about life’s origins.

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