Science & Technology

Reindeer herders and scientists collaborate to understand Arctic warming

The spring 2014 annual reindeer festival in Yar-Sale, a rural town on the Yamal Peninsula in Western Siberia, was a…

A rare, extremely energetic cosmic ray has mysterious origins

The “Oh-My-God” particle has a new companion. In 1991, physicists spotted a particle from space that crashed into Earth with…

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Bereits seit dem 23. November 2023 freuen wir uns über zahlreiche Black Friday Angebote bei Amazon, Media Markt, Saturn und…

These bats are the only mammals known to mate more like birds

As the only mammals that can fly, bats are the oddballs of the mammalian world. But serotine bats stand out…

A brain-monitoring device may one day take the guesswork out of anesthesia

A new brain-monitoring device aims to be the Goldilocks of anesthesia delivery, dispensing drugs in just the right dose.    No…

The first embryos from a mammal have now been grown in space

Mouse embryos can make it to an early stage of development in space. In an experiment conducted in 2021, a…

Why the Thanksgiving myth persists, according to science

Ask someone in the United States to name five events important to the country’s foundation and there’s a good chance…

Crabs left the sea not once, but several times, in their evolution

Most terrestrial plants and animals left the ocean a single time in their evolutionary history to live ashore. But crabs…

‘Most Delicious Poison’ explores how toxins rule our world

Most Delicious PoisonNoah WhitemanLittle, Brown Spark, $30 After his father’s unexpected death from alcohol use disorder in 2017, evolutionary biologist…

50 years ago, scientists suspected that lost sense of smell could be restored

Putting smell back in the whiffer – Science News, November 17, 1973 P.P.C. Graziadei and J.F. Metcalf of Florida State…