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Astronomers Use ALMA to Investigate DeeDee Planetary Body

Astronomers Use ALMA to Investigate DeeDee Planetary Body Astronomers are using ALMA to learn more about the planetary body named DeeDee, a recently discovered far-flung member of our solar system.

Skepticism About Biotechnology Isn't Anti-Science

Being Skeptical About Biotechnology Doesn’t Make You Anti-Science Characterizing concerns about the technologies that help shape our world as “anti-science” is more likely to alienate than inspire.

Great Ideas for Engineers Week

Great Ideas for Engineers Week Engineers Week is February 19-25, 2017. Celebrate engineers and the spirit of engineering by doing a hands-on STEM project or activity with your students!

Scientists Discover a Fungus Gnat Paradise in Peruvian Amazon

Scientists Discover a Fungus Gnat Paradise in Peruvian Amazon Scientists have discovered an environment that is a paradise for fungus gnats in the Peruvian Amazon.

Artificial Placenta Keeps Premature Lambs Alive for 28 Days

Artificial Placenta Keeps Premature Lambs Alive for 28 Days - D-brief By mimicking the fluid environment of the placenta, the lambs continued to develop normally. The system could one day help preterm infants.

Asteroid Shock Waves Could Have Provided the Building Blocks for RNA

Asteroid Shock Waves Could Have Provided The Building Blocks For RNA A now famous experiment conducted by chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey back in 1952 showed that even if we don't know for sure how the first living cells formed, at least some of their molecular building blocks could have been produced by si

Study Finds the Birth Control Pill Has a Pretty Terrible Impact on Women's Wellbeing

Study Finds The Birth Control Pill Has a Pretty Terrible Impact on Women's Wellbeing A new study has reinforced what many women have been saying for years - the oral contraceptive pill is associated with reduced quality of life and wellbeing in healthy women.

Early mammals probably slunk around at night

Early mammals probably slunk around at night - Futurity Compared to dinosaurs, we know quite little about early mammals. New research investigates when our ancestors acquired powerful night vision.

The Nike-Breaking 2 attempt will happen in Monza this weekend.

The sub-2 hour marathon attempt: The pacing strategy | The Science of Sport The Nike-Breaking 2 attempt will happen in Monza this weekend. I don't think a sub-2 is possible, but what will be fascinating is to see a) how they go about pacing the attempt, and what happens if it starts to fall away; and b) what the collective advantage is of all the tactics employed. I predict...

Resonance Experiment: Fun With Chladni Patterns

Resonance Experiment: Fun With Chladni Patterns The patterns formed in this experiment is known as Chladni patterns or Chladni’s figures. The experiment involves the formation of geometrical patterns when the sand-covered surface is made t…

Deep-sea trenches contain chemicals and radioactivity

Deep-sea trenches contain chemicals and radioactivity | Science Articles | Naked Scientists The deepest parts of the ocean were once assumed to be pristine, but recent discoveries of chemicals and radioactive products at the bottom of underwater trenches has shown that humanity’s footprint extends to the furthest reaches of the Earth – and it could affect the balance of oxygen in the ocean...

70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Fossils Have Been Discovered in China

70 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Fossils Have Been Discovered in China Ancient dinosaur egg fossils thought to be some 70 million years old have been discovered at a construction site in south-east China.