This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades

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June 02, 2023

Paleontology This Massive Scientific Discovery Sat Hidden in a Museum Drawer for Decades The fossil was a prehistoric bird is called Pelagornis sandersi, and its wings stretched out twice as wide as those of the great albatross.  By Flora Lichtman

Public Health The Pandemic Caused a Baby Boom in Red States and a Bust in Blue States The COVID pandemic caused a U.S.-wide decline in fertility rates, but red states actually saw increases By Tanya Lewis

Animals Thousands of New Creatures Discovered in Deep-Sea Mining Zone A new study found more than 5,000 new species in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a mineral-rich area of seafloor that companies aim to mine for critical materials By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Education India Cuts Periodic Table and Evolution from School Textbooks The periodic table, as well as evolution, won’t be taught to under-16s in India as they start the new school year By Dyani Lewis,Nature magazine

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Geology New York City Is Sinking under Its Own Weight The weight of New York City’s 1.1 million buildings is making the city slowly sink By Meghan Bartels

Animals Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs? Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times By Laurel Hamers,LiveScience

Neuroscience A Rare Form of Dementia Can Unleash Creativity Frontotemporal dementia can release the creative potential of the brain’s visual areas By Robert Martone

Particle Physics Physicists Make Matter out of Light to Find Quantum Singularities Experiments that imitate solid materials with light waves reveal the quantum basis of exotic physical effects By Charles D. Brown II

Nutrition Too Much 'Good' Cholesterol Can Harm the Heart HDL cholesterol raises disease risk at levels above 80 milligrams per deciliter By Lydia Denworth

Language This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body An endangered language family suggests that early humans used their bodies as a model for reality By Anvita Abbi

Mental Health Social Media Can Harm Kids. Could New Regulations Help? As more researchers document the potential harms of social media use, especially for youngsters, both Republicans and Democrats are pushing legislation to rein in platforms By Jesse Greenspan

Extraterrestrial Life Most Aliens May Be Artificial Intelligence, Not Life as We Know It Human intelligence may be just a brief phase before machines take over. That may answer where the aliens are hiding By Martin Rees,Mario Livio

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BRING SCIENCE HOME Rolling Race On your mark, get set, roll! Which objects will make it to the bottom of the ramp first--and why? Get ready to set up a ramp and test out your theories!  Credit: George Retseck Imagine rolling two identical cans down a slope, but one is empty and the other is full. Which one will reach the bottom first? You might have learned that when dropped straight down, all objects fall at the same rate regardless of how heavy they are (neglecting air resistance). Is the same true for objects rolling down a hill? Try this activity to find out!

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