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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: [S]cientists from the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University announced that they’d finally mapped every single neuron and all the connections between them housed inside the brain…
Asteroid known as 2023 DW is 50 metres wide and has a 1-in-607 chance of striking Earth – but not for two decades at leastSpace experts predict a large asteroid could hit Earth just in time to ruin Valentine’s Day – in 2046.The 50-metre wide asteroid, …
Beloved Australian songbird will risk life and limb for its breeding group but ignore cries for help from unfamiliar birds, scientists sayFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or d…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published in the journal Nature, reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosph…
SCIENTISTS fear “zombie viruses” containing radioactive waste could be unleashed from 30,000-year-old frozen soil.
Researchers have uncovered traces of viruses and bacteria that can infect humans in the frozen layers of soil beneath the …
The natural temporary weather phenomenon La Nina is gone and that’s good news for a disaster-weary Southeast.
Covid-19 may not have taken as great a toll on the mental health of most people as earlier research has indicated, a new study suggests. From a report: The pandemic resulted in “minimal” changes in mental health symptoms among the general population, a…
Scientists say the La Nina weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone after three troublesome years.
Scientists have created mice with two biological fathers by generating eggs from male cells, a development that opens up radical new possibilities for reproduction. The Guardian reports: The advance could ultimately pave the way for treatments for seve…
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: Has the quest for room temperature superconductivity finally succeeded? Researchers at the University of Rochester (U of R), who previously were forced to retract a controversial claim of room tempera…