Nobody noticed when an Australian radio telescope captured a fleeting explosion of light coming from somewhere far beyond the Milky Way in 2001. Records of the powerful flare-up—which produced as much energy in a few thousandths of a second as the sun does in a day—sat unseen for more than […]
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Australian Zoo Adopts a ‘Megaspider’ So Big Its Fangs Can Pierce Human Fingernails
In spite of what most Australians would have you believe, the land Down Under isn’t a hot-bed of venomous arachnids. But every now and then, a spider emerges that gives even the most stoic of us a dose of arachnophobia. Take this stunning example of a female funnel-web spider […]
Only alcohol — not caffeine, diet or lack of sleep — might trigger heart rhythm condition — ScienceDaily
New study from UC San Francisco that examined doable triggers of a prevalent heart ailment, which includes caffeine, sleep deprivation and sleeping on the left aspect, uncovered that only liquor use was regularly linked with much more episodes of the coronary heart arrhythmia. The authors conclude that people today may […]
Investigating pathogens and their life cycles, for the benefit of society | MIT News
Desmond Edwards was a little kid when first learned about typhoid fever. Fortunately, he didn’t have the disease. He was looking at a cartoon public health announcement. The cartoon, produced by the Pan American Health Organization, was designed to educate people in his home country of Jamaica about the importance […]
Gay men earn undergraduate and graduate degrees at the highest rate in the US
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Recent news about the significant shift of women outpacing men in attending college—now a 60/40 ratio—overlooks one of the highest-achieving groups of all: gay men. In addition, lesbian women’s level of education is not accounted for in the new figures. A new study from a University […]
NASA’s DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse
Back when Andy Rivkin was in college, he had a few friends in medical school. “I was like, oh man, I don’t want do anything that has too much responsibility,” he says. Instead, he looked to the stars. “Astronomy seemed pretty safe.” And, for a while, it was. Rather than […]
Toxic Signature of Poisoning in 5,000-Year-Old Bones Is Oldest Evidence of Its Kind
The earliest evidence of mercury poisoning has been found in 5,000-year-old bones of humans buried in Spain and Portugal, according to a new study. Exposure to the naturally occurring heavy metal may have toxic effects on the body including on the nervous, digestive, and immune systems, according to The World Health Organization (WHO). […]
Research in mice shows how diet alters immune system function through a gut microbe — ScienceDaily
The cliché “you are what you eat” has been used for hundreds of years to illustrate the link between diet and health. Now, an international team of researchers has found the molecular proof of this concept, demonstrating how diet ultimately affects immunity through the gut microbiome. The work, conducted in […]
How does homeschooling affect adolescents’ character, health and well-being?
A young student working from home. Credit: Jessica Lewis, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Compared to peers at public schools, adolescents who are homeschooled are more likely to report greater character strengths and fewer risky health behaviors later in life, but are less likely to attain a college degree, according to a […]
Genes Reveal How Some Rockfish Live Up to 200 Years
Few groups of animals encapsulate the extremes of longevity more than fish. While coral reef pygmy govies survive for less than ten weeks, Greenland sharks can endure more than 500 years. So when a team of biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, wanted to explore the genetics of aging, […]
We May Finally Understand Why These Gargantuan Mollusks Got So Huge
During the late Cretaceous, close to 80 million decades back, monsters roamed the Earth. Not just the tyrannosaurs and titanosaurs. Even more compact animals could be tremendous-sized. It was all through this time that the dimension of a style of marine mollusk peaked, with the most significant species of ammonite […]