All life on Earth depends on water, including us. Some of us consume water the old-fashioned way by drinking it with our mouths, others more creatively. Beetles can rehydrate themselves by opening their rectums...
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Company Serves World’s First ‘Mammoth’ Meatball, But Nobody Is Allowed to Eat It : ScienceAlert
Food scientists on Tuesday unveiled a giant meatball made from lab-grown flesh of an extinct woolly mammoth, saying the protein from the past showed the way for future foods. The glistening meatball was displayed...
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One of The Biggest Black Holes Ever Detected Is Actually Bigger Than We Thought : ScienceAlert
The bending of light as its path veers around a giant, invisible mass has revealed the presence of one of the biggest black holes yet detected in the Universe. In a galaxy at the...
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Rarely Seen Wombat ‘Sideways’ Sex Shows Just How Wild Animal Reproduction Can Get : ScienceAlert
If you look at where wombats deposit their poo, you realize they must be able to perform some surprising acrobatics. It has always amazed me to see wombat scats on top of grass tussocks...
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Scientists Created a New Recyclable Plastic Not Made From Crude Oil : ScienceAlert
The world is direly addicted to plastics. Try as we might to recycle them, plastics are cheaper to make anew, so unthinkable amounts of plastic waste are dumped into landfill and are clogging up...
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Dementia Linked to Brain Abnormalities From High Blood Pressure : ScienceAlert
More than a billion adults around the world live with elevated blood pressure, a condition that puts individuals at risk of damaging a variety of organs, including the nervous system. Though previous studies have...
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JWST Gives Us Our Best Look Yet at Earth-Sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b : ScienceAlert
An Earth-sized exoplanet in perhaps the most promising alien system for signs of life is not likely to be habitable to life as we know it. New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope...
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Surprise! ChatGPT Turns Out to Be Terrible at Wordle : ScienceAlert
The AI chatbot known as ChatGPT, developed by the company OpenAI, has caught the public’s attention and imagination. Some applications of the technology are truly impressive, such as its ability to summarize complex topics...
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Oldest Ichthyosaur Known to Science Discovered on Remote Arctic Island : ScienceAlert
Bones found on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen suggest the ancient marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs roamed Earth’s oceans for much longer than we thought. Dated to 250 million years ago, the remains...
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Well-Known Buffer Against Cognitive Decline Has Zero Effect, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Take a look at any list of risk factors for cognitive decline and you’re bound to find “education” among them. The received wisdom is that the more years you spend in education, the lower...
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