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03/23/2023

DNA from Beethoven's hair hints at what killed the composer

Mar 22 2023 11:00 AM

Many historians suspect Beethoven died from liver failure. A new analysis shows he had a heightened genetic risk for liver disease, researchers say.

'Off-Earth' asks how to build a better future in space

Mar 22 2023 9:00 AM

As humans prepare to live in space someday, ethics should be as much of guide as science and technology, an astrophysicist argues in a new book.

A hormone shot helped drunk mice sober up quickly

Mar 22 2023 7:00 AM

Drunk mice injected with the hormone FGF21 woke up and regained their balance faster than inebriated mice that did not receive the shot.

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A crucial building block of life exists on the asteroid Ryugu

Mar 21 2023 12:00 PM

A sample from Ryugu collected by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft contains uracil, a component of RNA, which is found in all living cells.

Sleeping sickness is nearing elimination. An experimental drug could help

Mar 21 2023 8:00 AM

Clinical trials of acoziborole are under way in sub-Saharan Africa, where sleeping sickness is endemic.

U.S. cases of a deadly fungus nearly doubled in recent years

Mar 20 2023 5:08 PM

Though numbers are still small, clinical cases of Candida auris in the jumped 95 percent from 2020 to 2021, a CDC survey finds.

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The mystery of Christiaan Huygens' flawed telescopes may have been solved

Mar 20 2023 9:00 AM

The discovery of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have come despite its discoverer, Christiaan Huygens, needing eyeglasses.

310-million-year-old fossil blobs might not be jellyfish after all

Mar 20 2023 7:00 AM

An ancient animal called Essexella may have been a type of burrowing sea anemone, a new study proposes.

By flying over atmospheric rivers, scientists aim to improve forecasts

Mar 19 2023 7:00 AM

Drenching atmospheric rivers are slamming the U.S. West Coast, bringing needed water but dangerous flooding. Here's how scientists study these storms.

Martian soil may have all the nutrients rice needs

Mar 17 2023 9:00 AM

Experiments hint that in the future, we might be able to grow the staple food in the soils of the Red Planet.

50 years ago, researchers discovered a leak in Earth's oceans

Mar 17 2023 7:00 AM

An analysis of oceanic rocks hinted that ocean water drains into Earth's mantle. How much makes it back into the ocean remains unclear.

Earth's inner core may be more complex than researchers thought

Mar 16 2023 9:00 AM

Seismic waves suggest that Earth has a hidden heart, a distinct region within the solid part of the planet's core.

Static electricity helps parasitic nematodes glom onto victims

Mar 16 2023 7:00 AM

The small electric charge generated by a moving insect is enough to affect the trajectory of a parasitic nematode's leap so it lands right on its host.

Maternal deaths in the U.S. keep climbing

Mar 16 2023 12:01 AM

New U.S. data show that as maternal deaths rise, a large gap between the maternal mortality rate of Black women compared with white women persists.

A volcano on Venus was spotted erupting in decades-old images

Mar 15 2023 2:00 PM

A new look at old data reveals an eruption on Venus in the 1990s that was probably similar to Hawaii's Kilauea eruption in 2018.

A moon-forming cataclysm could have also triggered Earth's plate tectonics

Mar 15 2023 10:18 AM

Deeply buried remnants of a hypothetical planet that slammed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago might have set subduction into motion.

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