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The seals were found on the Caspian Sea coast, but officials do not believe they died violently.
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The seals were found on the Caspian Sea coast, but officials do not believe they died violently.
More than 100,000 antennas will be built on Wajarri country, enabling astronomers to peek billions of years back to the ‘cosmic dawn’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastConstruction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), has officially begun in Australia after three decades in development.A huge...
A collaborative team has re-engineered the process of microbial pathogen identification in blood samples from pediatric sepsis patients using broad-spectrum pathogen capture technology. The advance enables accurate pathogen detection with a combination of unprecedented sensitivity and speed, and could significantly improve clinical outcomes for pediatric and older patients with bloodstream...
I got very close to becoming a European Space Agency astronaut, but the final lesson was a bittersweet oneIn February 2021, the European Space Agency (Esa) announced it would be recruiting a new astronaut class, the first since 2008. It encouraged applicants from a broader spectrum of gender, physical ability, age and ethnicity, so I fired off an application and joined a WhatsApp group of...
As a child, the gift of a dictionary sparked my love of rare words – which snowballed like a hogamadogChristmas morning. I must have been about seven years old. My grandparents had just arrived at our house and my family’s presents were all being excitedly exchanged. At last, they came to me, and my grandmother handed over something that seemed absolutely enormous. It was broad, flat, solid...
Scientists along the West Coast are calling for action to help sunflower sea stars, among the largest sea stars in the world, recover from catastrophic population declines.
A strong earthquake shook parts of Indonesia's main island of Java on Saturday, causing panic but only minor damage just two weeks after an equally powerful quake killed hundreds.
Thousands of villagers living near Indonesia's Mount Semeru were racing for refuge Sunday to the wail of emergency sirens as lava snaked towards their homes under a black sky after the volcano erupted.
The pandemic prompted workplace changes that proved beneficial to people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM), but there's fear that these accommodations will be rolled back. With International Day of Persons with Disabilities taking place on Dec. 3, a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York is calling for...
For decades public health authorities have encouraged us to choose healthier foods – yet most choices available to Americans are bad onesDiet-related chronic disease is the perennial number one killer in the United States, responsible for more deaths than Covid-19 even at the pandemic’s peak. Yet we cannot manage to define this as a “crisis”. In fact, our response is lame: for decades...
A new species of non-avian dinosaur with a streamlined body similar to those of modern diving birds, such as penguins and auks, is described in a study published in Communications Biology. The findings represent the first case of a non-avian theropod—a type of carnivorous dinosaur that walked on two legs—to have a streamlined body.
People attending large gatherings to watch matches are urged to be cautious about visiting vulnerable relatives afterwardsEngland’s progress in the World Cup could drive up the number of Covid cases across the country this winter, scientists have warned.Researchers say that mass gatherings in pubs, and in homes where friends and relatives get together to watch the team compete in Qatar, could...
Thousands of delegates representing 192 countries will spend the next two weeks meeting in Montreal, hammering out a once-in-a-decade agreement meant to protect, conserve and equitably share nature. Here's your guide to why it matters, who will be there and what to...
Billy Liar’s loose grasp on reality is common today but experts say it is less benign. That is, if you believe themBilly Liar, created in the 1950s, is a fantasist; a teller of tall tales who lives much of his time in the imaginary world of Ambrosia.He is engaged to two girls and fancies a third. He is desperate to get out of the dead-end town of Stradhoughton where he lives with his...
Lab-grown nerve cells will replace those destroyed by disease – scientists hope treatment may be available in five yearsEarly next year, a radical new treatment for Parkinson’s disease involving tissue transplants will receive its first trial with patients – including a group from the UK.Stem cells grown in the laboratory and transformed into nerve cells will be used to replace those...
Researchers are a step closer to unravelling the cruel mystery of the dementia that afflicts my wife and so many othersIn an age of excessive information, we have each developed a filtering system. To compensate, we acquire our own keywords, which pierce these systems, or, in the old parlance, make our ears prick up, be they the names of favourite teams, musicians, pastimes, conspiracy theories....
Despite daily Covid-19 cases near all-time highs and recent protests over lockdowns, US intelligence see no threat to Xi’s stabilityChinese leader Xi Jinping is unwilling to accept western vaccines despite the challenges China is facing with Covid-19, and while recent protests there are not a threat to Communist party rule, they could affect his personal standing, US director of national...
The astronauts installed new solar panels to give the International Space Station more power.