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01/20/2022

Gold and silver tubes in a Russian museum are the oldest known drinking straws

Jan 19 2022 6:03 PM

Long metal tubes enabled communal beer drinking more than 5,000 years ago, scientists say.

These tiny beetles fly fast thanks to wing bristles and a weird, wide stroke

Jan 19 2022 11:10 AM

Minuscule featherwing beetles have evolved a unique way of flying that lets them match the speed of beetles three times as big.

A disinfectant made from sawdust mows down deadly microbes

Jan 19 2022 9:06 AM

Antimicrobial molecules found in wood waste could be used to make more sustainable, greener disinfectants.

Volcanic avalanches of rock and gas may be more destructive than previously thought

Jan 19 2022 7:00 AM

Pressures within pyroclastic flows may be as much as three times as great as observations had suggested.

Take an online journey through the history of math

Jan 18 2022 8:00 AM

'History of Mathematics' explores the origins of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and more.

Scientists vacuumed animal DNA out of thin air for the first time

Jan 18 2022 6:00 AM

The ability to sniff out animals' airborne genetic material has been on researchers' wish list for over a decade.

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Astronomers identified a second possible exomoon

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Homo sapiens bones in East Africa are at least 36,000 years older than once thought

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A century of quantum mechanics questions the fundamental nature of reality

Jan 12 2022 10:46 AM

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