Virgin Galactic Unveils Jumpsuit for Space Tourists
The outfits, which would look at home on the bridge of the starship Enterprise, come with a ticket to space that costs as much as $25...Read More
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Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Prehistoric Parents Used Baby Bottles Made of Pottery
Trilobites With the advent of agriculture, parents began feeding animal milk to children, a change in how babies were weaned. La...Read More
It’s a Dirty Job, but Someone Has to Do It and Not Get Eaten
Trilobites Cleaner shrimp appear to have developed a strategy that protects them from predators they get very close to. A cleaner...Read More
Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain Forget
TRILOBITEs In mice, cells in the hypothalamus clear out old memories while the animals sleep. Akihiro Yamanaka, a neuroscientist...Read More
Neanderthal Footprints in France Offer Clues to Group Behavior
Trilobites The 80,000-year-old prints fill in gaps left by fossils and artifacts. A Neanderthal footprint found at an archeologi...Read More
How to Cool a Planet With Extraterrestrial Dust
A study of fossil meteorites suggests that a distant asteroid collision once sent Earth into an ice age. The slowly diminishing a...Read More
America’s Abortion Rate Has Dropped to Its Lowest Ever
New research suggests contraception and fewer pregnancies are more responsible for the decline than state laws restricting abortion. ...Read More
The Most Powerful Lightning Bolts Strike in Unexpected Places
Trilobites Superbolts are extremely rare, and thousands of times more powerful than the tendrils in the typical electrical storm. ...Read More
Hurricanes May Kill Some Birds, but Humans Are the Real Threat
The Bahama parrot’s numbers are not what they should be, ornithologists say, but they probably fared better in Hurricane Dorian th...Read More
Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers’ Hair
Getting sufficient DNA out of a rootless hair has long been considered impossible. A scientist, better known for work with ancient fo...Read More
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