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09/29/2022

This robotic pill clears mucus from the gut to deliver meds

Sep 28 2022 2:00 PM

A whirling robotic pill wicks mucus from the gut, allowing intravenous drugs such as insulin to be given orally, experiments in pigs suggest.

The pandemic may be stunting young adults' personality development

Sep 28 2022 2:00 PM

People typically become less neurotic and more agreeable with age. The COVID-19 pandemic may have reversed those trends in adults younger than 30.

Ancient fish fossils highlight the strangeness of our vertebrate ancestors

Sep 28 2022 11:33 AM

New fossils are revealing the earliest jawed vertebrates — a group that encompasses 99 percent of all living vertebrates on Earth, including humans.

False teeth could double as hearing aids

Sep 28 2022 7:00 AM

Dental implants can conduct sound through jawbone, making them candidates for discreet, high-quality hearing aids, researchers say.

'Fen, Bog & Swamp' reminds readers why peatlands matter

Sep 27 2022 9:00 AM

In her latest book, author Annie Proulx chronicles people's long history with peatlands and examines the ecological value of these overlooked places.

A Caribbean island gets everyone involved in protecting beloved species

Sep 27 2022 7:00 AM

Scientists on Saba are introducing island residents to conservation of Caribbean orchids, red-billed tropicbirds and urchins.

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NASA's DART spacecraft just smashed into an asteroid — on purpose

Sep 26 2022 7:17 PM

If the first-ever attempt to knock a space rock off course works, it could provide a blueprint to protect Earth from a killer asteroid.

In Maya society, cacao use was for everyone, not just royals

Sep 26 2022 3:00 PM

Previously considered a preserve of Maya elites, cacao was consumed across all social strata, a new study finds.

Mangrove forests expand and contract with a lunar cycle

Sep 26 2022 9:00 AM

The carbon-sequestering trees grow in a roughly 18-year cycle according to tides influenced by the moon's orbit, a study in Australia finds.

Here's how olivine may trigger deep earthquakes

Sep 26 2022 7:00 AM

Olivine's transformation into another mineral can destabilize rocks and set off quakes more than 300 kilometers down, experiments suggest.

Here is the first direct look at Neptune's rings in more than 30 years

Sep 23 2022 9:00 AM

In 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first pics of Neptune's rings. Now, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing a more detailed look.

Has AlphaFold actually solved biology's protein-folding problem?

Sep 23 2022 7:00 AM

An AI called AlphaFold predicted structures for nearly every protein known to science. Those predictions aren't without limits, some researchers say.

How ghostly neutrinos could explain the universe's matter mystery

Sep 22 2022 10:00 AM

If neutrinos behave differently from their antimatter counterparts, it could help explain why our cosmos is full of stuff.

This face mask can sense the presence of an airborne virus

Sep 22 2022 7:00 AM

Within minutes of exposure, a sensor in a mask prototype can detect proteins from viruses that cause COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.

After eons of isolation, these desert fish flub social cues

Sep 21 2022 11:39 AM

Pahrump poolfish flunked a fear test, but maybe they're scared of other things.

A protogalaxy in the Milky Way may be our galaxy's original nucleus

Sep 21 2022 7:00 AM

Millions of ancient stars spanning about 18,000 light-years at the Milky Way's heart are the kernel around which the galaxy grew, researchers say.

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