James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist' | Live Science
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James Webb Telescope spots galaxies from the dawn of time that are so massive they 'shouldn't exist'
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted six gigantic galaxies, each roughly the size of our own Milky Way, that formed at a bafflingly fast pace — taking shape just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows
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Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows
Nature - A cave site in France holds hundreds of tiny stone points, alongside remains thought to belong to Homo sapiens.
Kombucha electronics? Sure, why not? | Ars Technica
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Ars Technica
Kombucha electronics? Sure, why not?
Sustainable dried SCOBY mats are lighter, cheaper, and more flexible than plastics.
Fake Egyptian Tomb Fraudsters Almost Pull Off Legendary Hoax | Ancient Origins
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Fake Egyptian Tomb Fraudsters Almost Pull Off Legendary Hoax
Egypt’s Public Prosecution office just issued an arrest warrant for a group of crafty criminals who cooked up an ingenious scheme to swindle antiquities traffickers.
New research reveals possible COVID vaccine blood clot connection
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Medicalxpress
Comparing innate and adaptive immune responses in adults to COVID-19 mRNA and adenovirus vectored vaccines (Update)
A new Australian study led by SAHMRI and Flinders University has uncovered fundamental differences in how the AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines impact the immune system.
Research team creates statistical model to predict COVID-19 resistance
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Research team creates statistical model to predict COVID-19 resistance
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University have created and preliminarily tested what they believe may be one of the first models for predicting who has the highest probability ...
Study supports evidence that ivermectin is ineffective at treating COVID-19
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Study supports evidence that ivermectin is ineffective at treating COVID-19
High doses of the drug ivermectin, controversially recommended by some high-profile political and media figures during the COVID-19 pandemic, is ineffective at treating the COVID-19 virus, say University ...
A 5-minute PCR, faster than self-diagnosis ki | EurekAlert!
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A 5-minute PCR, faster than self-diagnosis kits
Dr. Sang Kyung Kim (Director) and Dr. Seungwon Jung’s research team at the Center for Augmented Safety System with Intelligence, Sensing of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President: Seok Jin Yoon) announced that they had developed an…
This Particle Accelerator Makes a Substance That Has Not Existed in 13 Billion Years - Scientific American
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This Particle Accelerator Makes a Substance That Has Not Existed in 13 Billion Years
By using one of the most complicated and powerful machines on the planet, scientists have found a way to glimpse back to the very beginning of time itself.
Tiny Bubbles of Primordial Soup Re-create Early Universe - Scientific American
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Tiny Bubbles of Primordial Soup Re-create Early Universe
New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before
Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing | Quanta Magazine
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https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-use-quantum-mechanics-to-pull-energy-out-of-nothing-20230222/
Quanta Magazine
Physicists Use Quantum Mechanics to Pull Energy out of Nothing
The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.
Physicists Solve Quasicrystal Formation Mystery
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SciTechDaily
Physicists Solve Quasicrystal Formation Mystery
At high temperatures, the structure of two-dimensional titanium oxide breaks down and forms rings of four, seven, and ten atoms when barium is added, instead of the typical hexagons. This aperiodic ordering of atoms was discovered by a team of researchers…
Just One Degree Can Have a Big Impact on a Species
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SciTechDaily
Just One Degree Can Have a Big Impact on a Species
University museum collections serve as a time machine for researchers seeking to comprehend the transformations in our world. It's no shock that the climate affects all life on Earth. Major shifts in climate can have a significant effect, as not all species…
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Image Credit & Copyright: Serge Brunier, Jean-François Bax, David Vernet, C2PU/OCA
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Scientists unlock key to drought-resistant wheat plants with longer roots
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Scientists unlock key to drought-resistant wheat plants with longer roots
Growing wheat in drought conditions may be easier in the future, thanks to new genetic research out of the University of California, Davis.
New species of ancient bony fish discovered in South Africa
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New species of ancient bony fish discovered in South Africa
A pair of paleontologists, one with Rhodes University's Albany Museum and Geology Department, the other with Uppsala University, has identified a new species of tristichopterid, which is an ancient bony ...
Effort to help pollinators shows successes, limitations
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phys.org
Effort to help pollinators shows successes, limitations
Although not quite the bee's knees, a three-year effort to conserve bee populations by introducing pollinator habitat in North Carolina agricultural areas showed some positive effects, as bee abundance ...
COVID-19 linked to 40% increase in autoimmune disease risk in huge study | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-linked-to-40-increase-in-autoimmune-disease-risk-in-huge-study
https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-linked-to-40-increase-in-autoimmune-disease-risk-in-huge-study
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COVID-19 linked to 40% increase in autoimmune disease risk in huge study
COVID-19 may substantially increase the risk of developing autoimmune disease, a huge study of health records found.
Webb Discovers Impossibly Massive Galaxies in Early Universe | Sci.News
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/webb-massive-galaxies-early-universe-11680.html
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Webb Discovers Impossibly Massive Galaxies in Early Universe
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have observed six candidate galaxies with stellar masses as high as 1011 solar masses about 500-700 million years after the Big Bang.
Centuries-Old Stolen Khmer Jewel Collection Returned to Cambodia | Ancient Origins
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Ancient Origins
Centuries-Old Stolen Khmer Jewel Collection Returned to Cambodia
A huge cache of stolen crown jewels dating back to Cambodia’s legendary Khmer (Angkorian) Empire resurfaced in London last summer, and have now been returned to Cambodia, the BBC has announced.