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by Intersectoid

on Jun 11

Recovered Non-Human Biologics Include Bipedal Bodies and Sentient Plasma Life

For years the question was whether any of the UAP reports contained evidence of alien life. Now there's a species count, a case count, and a description government officials have never spoken about.

#Aliens #Editorial

by Vitals

on Jun 11

Your Brain Has a Read Receipt Now

A blood draw that reads your brain's gene activity in real time; no surgery, no tissue samples. The tool is called INTACT.

#Medicine & Health

by Corpus

on Jun 11

A Killer Whale With a Knife Hidden in The Peruvian Desert

Researchers used AI to find a cetacean geoglyph, along with 302 others from the Nazca in Peru.

#History

by Out of Bounds

on Jun 11

The Bean Plant Has a Wasp on Speed Dial

A bean plant can identify a caterpillar by its spit, then call in wasps to deal with it. What else is quietly going on out there?

#Nature

by Deep Time

on Jun 11

Physics Sorted Magnets into Two Bins for a Century. The Third Bin Has 200 Entries.

A third magnet type has been hiding in plain sight. A flawed diamond might be what finally proves it exists.

#Earth Sciences

by Backlight

on Jun 10

When It Gets Hot, Animals Lose Their Minds

Hot days, angrier animals, scrambled bird brains and a fish that brawls with mirrors.

#Earth Sciences

by Out of Bounds

on Jun 10

A Tardigrade Walks Into an Oven

Water bears survive temperatures that kill most life. Now we know part of how: by rewiring their own physics.

#Nature

by Vitals

on Jun 10

Cats Unlock Answers About Breast Cancer

Researchers mapped the cancer genome of nearly 500 of our feline friends and found mutations that mirror human breast cancer.

#Medicine & Health

by Field Notes

on Jun 10

Belugas Pass the Mirror Test. The Mirror Test Has a Problem.

Two belugas. One mirror. Twenty-five years of unanalyzed footage. And now a debate about whether the test itself knows what it's testing.

#Nature

by Tectonics

on Jun 09

Liquid Iron at Earth's Core Changed Direction. Without It, Solar Winds Would Strip the Atmosphere.

The Earth's molten core pulled a U-turn beneath the Pacific in 2010. The reversal lasted a decade before weakening.

#Earth Sciences

by Field Notes

on Jun 09

A Tadpole Tail Turns Orange When a Dragonfly Shows Up

The tadpole, like Pooh, is of very little brain. So how does it know exactly which predator is watching and which body part to sacrifice?

#Nature

by Out of Bounds

on Jun 09

Mosquitoes Are Learning That DEET Smells Like Dinner

DEET has worked for 70 years. But trained mosquitoes are now drawn to it. What changed inside their tiny, terrifying brains?

#Nature

by Groundwater

on Jun 09

The Great Pyramid Wasn't Just Built to Last. It Was Built to Shake.

4,600 years old and still acing earthquake drills. What did ancient builders know about seismic design that we're only now measuring?

#History

by Corpus

on Jun 08

A 13th-Century Merchant's Notebook Spent 800 Years in a Latrine. It's Still Readable.

A nearly intact medieval wax notebook pulled from a latrine in Paderborn still holds legible Latin cursive plus some erased layers that imaging technology may yet recover.

#History

by Signal

on Jun 08

The Bar at the Beginning of the Universe

Stellar bars don't survive in gas-rich environments. GN20 is 75 percent gas. It has one anyway.

#Astronomy

by Deep Time

on Jun 08

The Sun's Interior and Its Surface Are No Longer Telling the Same Story

Scientists have listened to acoustic waves inside the Sun since 1987. What they're hearing in the current cycle diverges significantly from what four centuries of surface observation would predict.

#Astronomy

by Vitals

on Jun 08

The Brain Cells That Learned Pong Just Cleared a New Level. This Time It's Doom.

They started by walking into walls and shooting at nothing. Then something shifted. Lab-grown neurons, 200,000 of them, are learning on their own.

#Medicine & Health

by Parallax

on Jun 05

Life Found a Way to Not Need a Star

The most hospitable worlds in the galaxy might not orbit anything at all. Moons of rogue planets have been drifting through interstellar space for billions of years carrying the chemistry of life.

#Astronomy