#washingtonpost.com. #Jan.28.2025 Prehistoric puke offers clues about ancient sea predators’ diets. Two underwater sea lilies were eaten and regurgitated around 66 million years ago. They were preserved as fossilized vomit.
#Science ×
#techcrunch.com. #Jan.28.2025 Helion raises $425M to help build a fusion reactor for Microsoft | TechCrunch. Helion's unorthodox approach to fusion power and relative secrecy has earned it plenty of fans — and critics. But don’t count its investors among the naysayers.
#Science × #Tech #Microsoft #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Jan.28.2025 ‘Truly unique find’: part of Swindon Stegosaur returns to Wiltshire town. Vertebra spotted by fossil hunters on online marketplace is part of first stegosaur ever described by scientists
#Science × #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Jan.27.2025 Increase regulation of online sale of weight-loss jabs, pharmacists say. Current rules leave door open for medicines to be supplied without appropriate patient consultation, association says
#Health #Science ×
#theguardian.com. #Jan.26.2025 The framing of the shrew: California students photograph mammal never caught on film. Three young scientists set traps to capture and film species of special concern in move that can help conserve the shrew
#Science × #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Jan.26.2025 Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds. Exclusive: In-vitro gametes are viewed as the holy grail of fertility research
#Science × #Tech #United Kingdom #Europe
#wired.com. #Jan.26.2025 Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life. Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
#Science × #Tech
#wired.com. #Jan.25.2025 George R.R. Martin Coauthored a Scientific Paper. OK, cool, now finish The Winds of Winter.
#Science × #Tech #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Jan.25.2025 Neale Daniher, former AFL player and motor neurone disease advocate, named Australian of the Year. Indigenous scientist Dr Katrina Wruck awarded Young Australian of the Year, and charity co-founder Brother Olly Pickett named Senior Australian of the Year
#Health #Science × #Sport #football #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania #football player
#wired.com. #Jan.25.2025 The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues. The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with computer scientists to create tools that can find answers.
#Science × #Tech #USA #North America
#theguardian.com. #Jan.24.2025 Scientists point to Andes potato pathogen as origin of Irish famine. Researchers say study may help global efforts in controlling disease that still destroys crops today
#Science × #Republic of Ireland #Europe
#bbc.com. #Jan.24.2025 UK's plutonium to be readied for disposal. The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at Sellafield.
#Science × #Tech #United Kingdom #Europe
#wired.com. #Jan.24.2025 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know. Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, Einstein!
#Education #Science × #Tech #USA #North America
#wired.com. #Jan.24.2025 Science Has Spun Spidey's Web-Slinging Into Reality. When a US research lab accidentally created a sticky web-like substance, it turned to Peter Parker and comic-book lore for inspiration on what to do next.
#Science × #Tech
#bbc.com. #Jan.24.2025 'Corpse flower': Australians react to smell of plant in bloom. Almost 20,000 people visited Sydney's Botanic Gardens to catch a whiff of a rare plant in bloom.
#Science × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#aljazeera.com. #Jan.24.2025 Thousands flock to smell plant that reeks of dead rat, rotting rubbish. Huge crowds queued in Sydney to catch a whiff of the flower that smells like ‘hot rubbish’
#Science × #Australian continent #Australia #Insular Oceania
#huffingtonpost.co.uk. #Jan.24.2025 Looks Like Donald Trump's War On Science Is Underway. His team at HHS has paused critical communications and meetings, right as public health officials are worried about bird flu.
#Health #Politics #Science × #avian influenza
#bbc.com. #Jan.24.2025 Space exploration: How to make moon dust into oxygen. Engineers are working on systems that can turn lunar regolith into useful elements like oxygen.
#Science ×
#huffingtonpost.co.uk. #Jan.23.2025 Biologists Rip Trump’s 'Non-Sensical' Executive Order Declaring Only 2 Sexes. “Clearly, this order is not fully informed by current biological science,” said Dr. Richard Bribiescas, president of the Human Biology Association.
#Politics #Science × #USA #North America
#computerweekly.com. #Jan.23.2025 NAO flags shortcomings in government preferential pricing deals with big tech suppliers | Computer Weekly. Shortcomings in the UK government’s tech buying power have been highlighted in separate reports in recent days by the National Audit Office and The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.
#Science × #Tech #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Jan.23.2025 The science of racism, and how to fight it – podcast. Ian Sample speaks to Keon West, a professor of social psychology at the University of London, whose new book, The Science of Racism, explores what science can reveal about racism, the inventive methods
#Education #Science × #United Kingdom #Europe
#theguardian.com. #Jan.23.2025 ‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world. A decade ago, up to 1,000 of the apex predators lived in one South African bay. Now they have gone, fleeing from killer whales. But the gap they have left creates problems for other species
#Science × #Africa #South Africa
#wired.com. #Jan.22.2025 The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One. H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country’s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn’t yet recommended.
#Health #Science × #Tech #USA #avian influenza #North America
#wired.com. #Jan.22.2025 This Company Wants to Build a Space Station That Has Artificial Gravity. Founded by crypto guru Jed McCaleb, Vast Space will run two missions to the International Space Station, and aims to launch its first space station, Haven-1, by the end of 2025.
#Science × #Tech #USA #North America
Filter: #Science ×
Showing 313-336 of 435 items - Time: 0.1501 s. Memory: 13.4687 mb.