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Slime for the Climate, Delivered by Brown Algae
Dec. 26, 2022 — Brown algae take up large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air and release parts of the carbon contained therein back into the environment in mucous form. This mucus is hard to break down for other …
Infant Gene Therapy Is a Breakthrough for Artemis-SCID Patients
Dec. 21, 2022 — Ten young children born without functioning immune systems and lacking the ability to fight infections are on track for healthier lives thanks to a new gene therapy …
Scientists Find Key Reason Why Loss of Smell Occurs in Long COVID-19
Dec. 21, 2022 — The reason some people fail to recover their sense of smell after COVID-19 is linked to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decline in the number of those cells, …
The Physical Intelligence of Ant and Robot Collectives
Dec. 21, 2022 — Researchers took inspiration from ants to design a team of relatively simple robots that can work collectively to perform complex tasks using only a few basic …
Shedding Light on the Origin of Complex Life Forms
Dec. 21, 2022 — Researchers have succeeded in cultivating a special archaeon and characterizing it more precisely using microscopic methods. This member of the Asgard archaea exhibits unique cellular characteristics …
The Other Paleo Diet: Rare Discovery of Dinosaur Remains Preserved With Its Last Meal
Dec. 21, 2022 — Microraptor was an opportunistic predator, feeding on fish, birds, lizards — and now small mammals. The discovery of a rare fossil reveals the creature was a generalist carnivore in the ancient …
Common Food Dye Can Trigger Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Animal Study Suggests
Dec. 20, 2022 — Researchers using experimental animal models of IBD found that continual exposure to Allura Red AC harms gut health and promotes inflammation. The dye directly disrupts gut barrier function and …
Measuring Gamma-Ray Bursts’ Hidden Energy Unearths Clues to the Evolution of the Universe
Dec. 19, 2022 — When stars die out, they emit gamma-ray bursts. Although scientist can calculate the explosion energy from dying stars, it is difficult to do when the conversion efficiency is low or unknown. Using …
New Winged Robot Can Land Like a Bird
Dec. 19, 2022 — Researchers have developed a method that allows a flapping-wing robot to land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism. The innovation could significantly expand the scope of …
Fossil CSI: Giant Extinct Marine Reptile Graveyard Was Likely Ancient Birthing Grounds
Dec. 19, 2022 — An international research team examines a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada’s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs …
Ancient Asteroid Grains Provide Insight Into the Evolution of Our Solar System
Dec. 19, 2022 — The UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, was used by a large, international collaboration to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding …
Alien Planet Found Spiraling to Its Doom Around an Aging Star
Dec. 19, 2022 — The condemned planet could help answer questions about the fate of other worlds as their solar systems …
Webb Space Telescope Reveals Previously Shrouded Newborn Stars
Dec. 16, 2022 — Astronomers took a ‘deep dive’ into one of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and were rewarded with a surprising discovery: telltale signs of two dozen previously …
Climate Change Played Key Role in Dinosaur Success Story
Dec. 16, 2022 — Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the ascendancy of dinosaurs through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic …
Light from Outside Our Galaxy Brighter Than Expected
Dec. 16, 2022 — Scientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies, challenging …
Marsquake!
Dec. 15, 2022 — The quake lasted four hours and identified layering in the crust that could indicate a meteoroid impact. The 4.7 magnitude temblor happened in May 2022 and released five times more energy than any …
Wood-Eating Clams Use Their Feces to Dominate Their Habitat
Dec. 15, 2022 — Researchers didn’t know what to make of sunken pieces of wood that were so thoroughly chewed-up by clams that the wood crumbled in their hands. It turns out, the super-chewer wood-eating clams …
Whales Could Be a Valuable Carbon Sink, Say Scientists
Dec. 15, 2022 — Nature-based solutions to fight climate change take a holistic approach that promotes biodiversity and ecosystem preservation. While many efforts have focused on planting trees or restoring wetlands, …
Astronomers Find That Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water
Dec. 15, 2022 — Astronomers have found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are ‘water worlds,’ planets where water makes up a large fraction of the …
Drought Encouraged Attila’s Huns to Attack the Roman Empire, Tree Rings Suggest
Dec. 15, 2022 — Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman empire, a …
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