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Rhinos are supposed to be made from skin cells

The last of their kind: Fatu and Najin have to be guarded by bodyguards around the clock in the Ol Pejeta Conservany. ©...
Elijah Burt -
Health & Medicine

Ordinary houseplant appears to have a surprising – but still inexplicable – effect on air quality

The plants appear to deal with a common and dangerous form of air pollution that can also occur indoors. Nitrogen dioxide is a gas...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
Astronomy

Astronomers rule out a black hole

This artist's rendering shows what what was previously thought to be a triple black hole system might actually look like. The dual system...
Ashton Edwards -
Earth & Climate

Researchers use solar panels that extract water vapor from the air to sprout spinach

The clever invention is a sustainable and cheap way to provide people who live in arid desert areas with sufficient food and water. Most...
Charlie Elliott -
Health & Medicine

Keratosis pilaris: How to treat rough skin on upper arms and legs

Keratosis pilaris on the arms or legs often poses an aesthetic challenge for those affected. Here you can find out how you can treat...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Astronomy

The mystery of the missing galaxy M102

What does a galaxy look like from the side? The space photo of the week shows it. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this...
Charlie Elliott -
Health & Medicine

A special kind of contrast medium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEeEqX25GAQ Researchers from the Helmholtz Institute in Mainz have made progress in the field of magnetic resonance imaging that is of great importance for cancer...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Health & Medicine

10,000 steps a day the norm? This is how many steps you really need to take every day

The oft-repeated mantra of 10,000 steps a day stems from a decades-old marketing campaign. In reality, it doesn't have to be that...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
Health & Medicine

6 things to change your mind

Unsplash Photo: CC0 Public Domain / Unsplash - Anthony Tran There are many reasons for concern at the moment: Ukraine war, climate crisis, pandemic and...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Health & Medicine

Insulin-producing beta cells from stem cells

Beta cells (red) generated from stem cells that produce insulin. © Otonkoski Lab / University of Helsinki In severe diabetes, the beta cells of...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
Health & Medicine

COVID-19 may have claimed three times more lives worldwide than is now believed

Although official figures say that 5.9 million people have died from corona worldwide, researchers claim that in reality there may have been 18.2...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
Biology

Human Impact: Most plants lose

The invasive aquatic plant Halophila stipulacea is among the beneficiaries of the Anthropocene. © nusuke/ iStock Humans have been interfering with nature on a...
Elijah Burt -
Earth & Climate

China: Extinct species of crocodile discovered

Bone finds and an artist's rendering of Hanyusuchus sinensis. © 2022 Masaya Iijima and Hikaru Amemiya A six-meter-long reptile once lurked in the water...
Ashton Edwards -
Health & Medicine

This surprising brain function is the first to come back ‘online’ as soon as you come out of anesthesia

And that's a good thing. Millions of surgical procedures are performed every year. But many of these would not be possible without the...
Dr. Hayden Miller -
History & Archaeology

Broken dinosaur wrist discovered in Russia

The hapless dinosaur may have broken his wrist while sprinting. And with that, he suffered a difficult, but not insurmountable injury. An international...
Charlie Elliott -
Astronomy

It’s raining threats on Twitter, but could the Russians really crash the International Space Station?

In response to sanctions imposed by the west, the director of Roscosmos has regularly played out loud on social media in recent weeks...
Charlie Elliott -
Earth & Climate

Two females, 14 embryos and still the future of the northern white rhino looks bleak – but there is hope

To keep the northern white rhinoceros from extinction, scientists are trying to make artificial eggs from stem cells. And that goal is...
Charlie Elliott -
Biology

Climate change affects Europe’s beech forests

View of a Central European beech forest. © brytta/ iStock The common beech is one of the most important tree species in European deciduous...
Elijah Burt -
History & Archaeology

On the trail of the origin of the pile-dwelling boom

Remains of Neolithic crops suggest links between geographically distant pile-dwelling settlements. © Raul Soteras In the Neolithic Age, the famous settlements on stilts stood...
Alan Cannon -
Health & Medicine

Ants can “sniff out” cancer

Six-legged employees could soon find their way into diagnostic laboratories. © Paul Devienne, Laboratoire d'Ethologie Expérimentale et Comparée at 'Université Sorbonne Paris Nord A...
Willy Lewis, M.D. -
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