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Difficult to separate oil and water without leaving behind impuritiesAbaka Press/Alamy A mixture of oil and water can be efficiently separated by pumping it through narrow…
Hairy animals such as rats and dogs shiver to dry. Atikinka 2/Getty Images If you’ve ever been close to a dog that went swimming, you’ve probably…
Farm workers exposed to infected dairy cows found to have avian influenza antibodiesHelen King/Getty Images There may be more human cases of avian influenza in the…
New DNA analysis has shed light on the victims of the Pompeii disaster, challenging previous assumptions. Researchers from the United States and Italy conducted a recent…
GGiven the influx of bad news from the gaming industry over the past 10 months, it’s no surprise that this weekend, sitting in a crowd of…
aEvery New York Millennial — and any parent — will be familiar with Pokemon cards, a mainstay of newsagent hustling since the turn of the century.…
The U.S. Supreme Court discussed Meta’s Facebook’s attempt to dismiss a federal securities fraud lawsuit brought by shareholders. The lawsuit accuses the social media platform of…
Nobody wants to hear about men making comebacks right now, especially when it doesn’t involve Frank Skinner. Skinner left Absolute Radio’s breakfast show in March after…
The Australian government has committed to implementing a minimum age limit of 16 for social media access and imposing penalties on online platforms that do not…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-long events detected from beyond the Milky Way. The radiative properties of FRBs favor magnetars as their source, as evidenced by…
Archaeologists used a laser-based detection system to discover more than 6,500 Pre-Hispanic structures in Campeche, Mexico, including a previously unknown Mayan city named Valeriana. Details of…
Certain knots, like this trefoil, can form from vortices within the quantum fluid Login/Shutterstock By manipulating quantum fluids, researchers were able to form liquid knots that…
A sheep skull modified by the ancient Egyptians so that the horns extend upward instead of outward. B. de Cupert A sheep with deformed horns is…
Archaeologists say they have discovered the world’s oldest known evidence of intensive loess mining at least 48,000 years ago at Lion Cave in Ngwenya, in the…
DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms important for controlling gene expression in eukaryotes. Arabidopsis. Image credit: Carl Davies, CSIRO/CC BY 3.0. DNA methylation is…
Hidden somewhere in the dark of space, there is a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. If we don’t spot it and somehow stop…
When it comes to natural disasters, it is often impossible to predict them more than a few months or even days in advance. We cannot say,…
Donald Trump’s return to the White House was anticipated by his biggest supporters before it was official. Elon Musk, a major advocate for Trump’s return to…
A new study led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Karolinska Institutet, and Linköping University has revealed a landscape view of the human sense of…
Firefighters working to extinguish California fires in July Abaca/Shutterstock 2024 is almost certain to be the first year on record where average temperatures exceed pre-industrial levels…
In 2013, Ning Zeng discovered a very old and very important log. At the time, he and a colleague were digging ditches in Quebec, Canada. They…
Even though he knows a bit of Welsh and building regulations, he refrains from comparing Rishi Sunak to Keir Starmer or delving into the complexities of…
Elon Musk is facing a proposed class action lawsuit from registered voters who participated in a sweepstakes by signing a constitutional petition, hoping to win a…
Bitcoin has reached record highs amidst speculation on Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, with many viewing him as a candidate supportive of cryptocurrencies.…
Astronomers using the VLT survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile 283 million pixel image of the Dark Wolf Nebula. This image was taken by…
Newly discovered tardigrade species using genome, transcriptome and proteome analysis Hypsibius henanensis scientists investigated the molecular basis that contributes to radioresistance in these small invertebrates. Schematic…
A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurs have been identified from two specimens discovered in Inner Mongolia, China. rebuilding the life of Yuanyang Long Bai…
New supercapacitors could be assembled from Martian materialsNASA When forced into small cracks, water can be used in unexpected ways. New battery-like devices that rely on…
In everyday life, there is nothing more frustrating than having something stuck between your teeth. Thankfully, we can reach for the toothpicks. And it appears our…
Breast cancer cells metastasized to the liver Connect images / Alamy Global cancer deaths are expected to nearly double by 2050, primarily in low- and middle-income…
Administrative innovations in Southwest Asia in the fourth millennium BC, such as cylindrical seals wrapped around the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundation for one of…
Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, IndonesiaAliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, could help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common…
Rapid 3D printing using sound and light could one day create copies of human organs made from one’s own cells, enabling a variety of drug tests.…
Award-winning work “Calcium Rainbow”Charlotte Buckley, University of Strathclyde, British Heart Foundation – Research review In this image, the muscle cells lining an artery resemble a stained…
There has been a debated stance that children below the age of three should have no screen time, but research indicates that digital technology can offer…
The Soy Habzak trenches in Tajikistan's Zeravshan Valley are the remains of several Paleolithic occupation phases rich in stone tools, fauna, and charcoal remains. The Soi…
Hello. Welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, technology news editor at Guardian US. In today’s newsletter, we discuss the final form of X, learnings from a…
Fibers from wet wipes can get mixed into fertilizer if flushed down the toilet.Linda Kennedy/Alamy The natural fibers increasingly used in wet wipes can actually have…
IIt’s one of the biggest injustices in video game history that the Sega Saturn is widely considered to be a failure. The console was released in…
The first cosmonaut to cast a vote from space was actually a cosmonaut (individuals trained by the Russian Space Agency for space travel) who flew from…