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Abortion rights are big news at the moment – and for good reason, with countries like Poland and the USA seeing women and children becoming critically endangered or facing criminal charges as they seek medical care to end their pregnancies. Evidence continues to show that the laws behind these high-profile cases are not just unpopular, […]

Three-dimensional (3D) printing has already proved its worth at great feats of engineering, but the technology has now been used for its tastiest challenge yet: constructing cheesecake. Now, scientists have shown how their “digital cooking” approach can successfully create multi-layered cakes, which they argue has many advantages over those made by the hands of a […]

Stories of cryptids like the bogeyman, yeti, and Loch Ness monster persist over time thanks to “sightings”, alleged witness reports, and dubious accounts stretching back through the history of all things unexplainable. Few have quite the video footage though as one event attributed to “Colossal Claude”. Colossal Claude is said to roam the waters around […]

The samples collected by Hayabusa-2 from Asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal new insight into how the building blocks of life might have gotten to our planet. Scientists now report the discovery of niacin (also known as Vitamin B3) as well as uracil: one of the four nucleotide bases that are found in RNA, a molecule […]

More than 60,000 years ago, giant eagles were flying around Australia with a wingspan of nearly 3 meters (9.8 feet) across. They are thought to be the largest birds of prey ever to live on the continent and possibly the largest continental eagles in the world, according to new research.  This giant raptor from the […]

Recently, reports have surfaced stating that artificial intelligence (AI) has finally cracked how to draw hands, removing one of the final obvious markers that allowed us to know whether an image was AI-generated or human art. Luckily, we’re here to tell you that while the image generation AI, Midjourney, has got much better at drawing […]

From its northernmost tip to the border with Asia, plenty of ancient European armies were happy to welcome women to their ranks. Traditionally, though, historians have agreed on one major exception to this rule: the Roman Empire, where the army and navy were – almost by definition – made up only of men.  According to […]

A team of researchers has analyzed over 1,000 bog bodies, finding that many of them met violent ends, and nearly all of them were placed in bogs intentionally. Peat is created through the decomposition of organic matter, largely from plant materials such as moss. In particular. when sphagnum moss accumulates enough in wetlands to form […]

Scientists in the UK have developed a new type of concrete that might one day be used to build settlements elsewhere else in the Solar System. By combining potato starch with material simulating the dust of Mars or the Moon, they created something much stronger than regular concrete. This so-called “StarCrete” made of Martian dust […]

Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons regularly stir up a storm around the tropical stretches of our planet, raising hell wherever they may fall. However, it’s a curious fact that they very rarely approach the equator and – stranger still – never cross it.  First things first, some terms need to be cleared up. Hurricanes, cyclones, and […]

A deadly fungus is spreading in the US, according to new research that found the cases of Candida auris rose drastically between 2019 and 2021. Classed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an “urgent threat“, C. auris can cause potentially life-threatening infections that don’t respond well to the current first-line therapy. […]

Spend enough time on the internet and you have probably come across the urban legend that if you sneeze with your eyes open, your eyeball can pop out of its socket. Well, you’ll be pleased to have it confirmed that your eyeballs do not pop out of your sockets like champagne corks, even if similarly […]

Last September, DART hit asteroid Dimorphos, the small companion of asteroid Didymos. The impact was a test of planetary defense, showing that we can truly shift the orbit of a celestial body. But it was also a chance to study what an impact on an asteroid looks like. And astronomers did not waste time in […]

Market Overview Diabetic neuropathy is nerve damage caused by diabetes that may present as symptoms such as pain, numbness, and tingling in the extremities. The diabetic neuropathy market consists of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other products used for the prevention and treatment of this condition. The global diabetic neuropathy market is expected to expand in […]

A new animation allows us to get the gist of how sparkly the night sky would look to us in gamma rays thanks to the data collected by NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope in just one year. The visible light that humans can see with our unaided eye is but a small slither of the electromagnetic […]

Market Overview The cardiovascular device market is an exciting and rapidly developing segment of the global medical device industry. This sector encompasses a diverse range of devices used to diagnose, treat, and monitor heart disease and related conditions. The global cardiovascular devices market was valued at USD 56.3 billion in 2022 and is expected to […]

Fancy yourself a code breaker or a technological wiz? If so, you could win $700,000 if you can solve a 2,000-year-old mystery. The former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and a group of scientists are giving away prizes worth a total of $1,000,000, at the time of writing, to anyone who can successfully decipher scrolls recovered […]

Turbulence in a fluid due to the rotation of a body has applications across all realms of science and engineering. It doesn’t matter if you’re focusing on a neutron star or on an airplane engine: turbulence is there, often messing up your nice “simple” equations. There is turbulence also at the quantum level and, like […]

A new emergency alert system is being tested by the UK government on April 23. The alert sound has been shared on Twitter, and it will temporarily block the phone’s functionality until the owner has acknowledged the notification. “A new system that will give the Government and emergency services the capability to send an alert […]

The climate crisis is getting deeper and deeper – but humanity still has a number of options left on the table, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today.  The report can be summed up very simply: the planet is facing big trouble, but solutions are still available.  Advertisement “If […]