Tiny antenna-like organelles once thought to be holdovers from our ancient past appear to play a crucial role in keeping track of time, according to a recent study on mice by researchers from the...
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We May Finally Know How Lightning Gets Its Zigzag Shape : ScienceAlert
Everyone has seen lightning and marveled at its power. But despite its frequency – about 8.6 million lightning strikes occur worldwide every day – why lightning proceeds in a series of steps from the...
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Ant Babies Ooze a Weird Kind of ‘Milk’, And The Whole Colony Slurps It Down : ScienceAlert
There’s nothing quite like drinking with friends, and it turns out ants may agree as they have their own form of social drinking too. But instead of getting on the beers, ants’ drink of...
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Earth’s Oxygen Came From an Unexpectedly Deep And Hot Source, Study Suggests : ScienceAlert
The amount of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere makes it a habitable planet. Twenty-one percent of the atmosphere consists of this life-giving element. But in the deep past – as far back as the...
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Hidden Chapel of Disemboweled Saint Found in The Old Lore of Westminster Abbey : ScienceAlert
Westminster Abbey has served as a coronation, wedding, and burial site for the royalty of England and Britain for nearly a millennium. Consecrated in 1065 CE, the magnificent structure is one of the world’s...
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New Experimental HIV Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Human Trials : ScienceAlert
An HIV vaccine candidate is showing positive early results, prompting a critical component of the human immune response in 97 percent of vaccine recipients. It was a small, phase 1 trial testing a vaccine...
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Millions of ‘Silent Synapses’ Could Be The Key to Lifelong Learning : ScienceAlert
Newborns need to store vast amounts of new information quickly as they learn to navigate the world. Silent synapses – the immature connections between neurons that have no neurotransmitter activity yet – are thought...
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Engineers Propose an Ambitious Plan to Bury Excess Carbon at The Bottom of The Ocean : ScienceAlert
Our failure to decisively mitigate climate change is prompting researchers to examine more drastic approaches, like fertilizing the oceans to combat the massive excess of carbon dioxide in our air. “At this point, time...
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Astronomers Spot The Biggest Galaxy Ever, And The Scale Will Break Your Brain : ScienceAlert
Earlier this year, astronomers found an absolute monster of a galaxy. Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs into space. That’s 16.3 million light-years long, and...
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Wild New Hypothesis Suggests IBS Could Be a Form of ‘Gravity Intolerance’ : ScienceAlert
There’s an invisible and relentless force acting on your bowels right now, and it might be causing some people serious irritation. No one really knows how or why irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) develops, but...
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