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03/30/2023

Your brain wires itself to match your native language

Mar 29 2023 9:00 AM

MRI scans of nearly 100 native speakers of either German or Arabic revealed differences in how the language circuits of their brains are connected.

A surprising food may have been a staple of the real Paleo diet: rotten meat

Mar 29 2023 7:00 AM

The realization that people have long eaten putrid foods has archaeologists rethinking what Neandertals and other ancient hominids ate.

Here's why some Renaissance artists egged their oil paintings

Mar 28 2023 11:00 AM

Some Renaissance artists created eggs-quisite paintings by adding yolks to oil paints, which may have helped add texture and prevent yellowing.

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Baby Jupiter glowed so brightly it might have desiccated its moon

Mar 28 2023 8:00 AM

During its infancy, Jupiter may have glowed about 10 thousand times brighter than it does today, which may explain why its moon Io is completely dry.

The biggest planet orbiting TRAPPIST-1 doesn't appear to have an atmosphere

Mar 27 2023 11:00 AM

TRAPPIST-1b is hotter than astronomers expected, suggesting there's no atmosphere to transport heat around the planet.

A neutron star collision may have emitted a fast radio burst

Mar 27 2023 11:00 AM

Astronomers spotted both a fast radio burst and gravitational waves from a cosmic smashup in the same part of the sky and at about the same time.

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Volcanic sulfur may make barn owls grow redder feathers

Mar 27 2023 8:00 AM

Barn owls on volcanic islands tend to have redder plumage than those on nonvolcanic islands, possibly due to an influx of sulfur in the environment.

Chia seedlings verify Alan Turing's ideas about patterns in nature

Mar 26 2023 7:00 AM

New experiments confirm that complex patterns in plants emerge from a model proposed by mathematician Alan Turing.

Microplastics are in our bodies. Here's why we don't know the health risks

Mar 24 2023 12:00 PM

Researchers are racing to try to understand how much humans are exposed and what levels are toxic.

These transparent fish turn rainbow with white light. Now, we know why

Mar 24 2023 9:00 AM

Repeated structures in the ghost catfish's muscles separate white light that passes through their bodies into different wavelengths.

Mathematicians have finally discovered an elusive 'einstein' tile

Mar 24 2023 7:00 AM

After half a century, mathematicians succeed in finding an 'einstein,' a shape that forms a tiled pattern that never repeats.

How raccoon dog DNA fits into the COVID-19 origins debate

Mar 23 2023 4:58 PM

Did the virus that causes COVID-19 come from animals or a lab? Evidence hints at animals. Either way, we should be prepping for the next pandemic.

Scientists have now recorded brain waves from freely moving octopuses

Mar 23 2023 9:00 AM

The data reveal some unexpected patterns, though it's too early to know how octopus brains control the animals' behavior, a new study finds.

Here's a peek into the mathematics of black holes

Mar 23 2023 7:00 AM

The universe tells us slowly rotating black holes are stable. A nearly 1,000-page proof confirms it.

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.

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