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08/17/2021

Vera Rubin's work on dark matter led to a paradigm shift in cosmology

Aug 17 2021 6:00 AM

'Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond' tells the story of how astronomer Vera Rubin provided key evidence for the existence of dark matter.

A 1,000-year-old grave may have held a powerful nonbinary person

Aug 16 2021 8:00 AM

A medieval grave in Finland, once thought to maybe hold a respected woman warrior, may belong to someone who didn't have a strictly male or female identity.

Jupiter's intense auroras superheat its upper atmosphere

Aug 16 2021 6:00 AM

Jupiter's hotter-than-expected upper atmosphere may be caused by high-speed charged particles slamming into the air high above the poles.

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Probiotics help lab corals survive deadly heat stress

Aug 13 2021 2:00 PM

In a lab experiment, probiotics prevented the death of corals under heat stress, suggesting beneficial microbes could help save ailing reefs.

How different COVID-19 testing plans can help keep kids safe in school

Aug 13 2021 6:00 AM

As children head back to school in the United States, here's a look at various testing strategies that could keep kids safe during in-person learning.

Measuring a black hole's mass isn't easy. A new technique could change that

Aug 12 2021 2:00 PM

The timing of flickers in the gas and dust in a black hole's accretion disk correlates to its mass, a new study finds.

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How the strange idea of 'statistical significance' was born

Aug 12 2021 12:00 PM

A mathematical ritual known as null hypothesis significance testing has led researchers astray since the 1950s.

An Indigenous people in the Philippines have the most Denisovan DNA

Aug 12 2021 11:00 AM

Genetic comparisons crown the Indigenous Ayta Magbukon people as having the most DNA, 5 percent, from the mysterious ancient hominids.

Scientists have a new word for birds stealing animal hair

Aug 12 2021 8:00 AM

Dozens of YouTube videos show birds stealing hair from dogs, cats, humans, raccoons and even a porcupine — a behavior rarely documented by scientists.

Colds and other common respiratory diseases might surge as kids return to school

Aug 12 2021 6:00 AM

Recent historically low levels of some respiratory illnesses may lead to outbreaks this fall and winter, creating disruptions as kids return to school.

Ripples in rats' brains tied to memory may also reduce sugar levels

Aug 11 2021 11:00 AM

Brain signals called sharp-wave ripples have an unexpected job: influencing the body's sugar levels, a study in rats suggests.

Psychology has struggled for a century to make sense of the mind

Aug 11 2021 9:00 AM

Research into what makes us tick has been messy and contentious, but has led to intriguing insights.

6 answers to parents' COVID-19 questions as kids return to school

Aug 11 2021 6:00 AM

Universal masking in schools could prevent a bumpy 2021–22 schoolyear and keep kids, many of whom are too young to be vaccinated, safe, experts say.

Windbreaks, surprisingly, could help wind farms boost power output

Aug 10 2021 8:00 AM

Wind farm performance could be improved by 10 percent by using low barriers to increase the wind speed directed at the turbines, simulations suggest.

What kids lost when COVID-19 upended school

Aug 10 2021 6:00 AM

Researchers are starting to tally how a year and a half of pandemic has left many children struggling academically and emotionally.

The new UN climate change report shows there's no time for denial or delay

Aug 09 2021 6:47 PM

Human-caused climate change is unequivocally behind extreme weather events from heat waves to floods to droughts, a massive new assessment concludes.

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