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U.S. Physics Panel Wants to Build Billion-Dollar, 800-Mile Neutrino Beam

A committee made up of high-profile U.S. scientists has a bold plan afoot. It wants to build a billion-dollar particle beam to blast neutrinos 800 miles underground, from Chicago to South Dakota. The audacious plan would, according to Steven Ritz from the University of California Santa Cruz, be the biggest American particle physics project in…

Physics & Chemistry Jamie Condliffe

Why Only the Most Intelligent Mammals Make Friends

Humans aren’t the only mammals to make friends—elephants, horses, whales and plenty more form strong social bonds that aren’t connected to reproduction—but it’s only the smartest that do. Why is that? In fact, mammals form alliances to help other, to ensure safety—essentially to make life easier—and it requires intelligence to realise that’s a smart thing…

Biology Jamie Condliffe

A Battery-Free, Pocket-Sized CPR Coach Ensures You’re Really Helping

It might look easy, but properly performing CPR to save someone’s life—and not injure them in the process—does require a specific technique. Since not everyone’s taken a first-aid course, the Cardio First Angel serves as an impromptu CPR instructor that ensures you’re doing it right, no matter how limited your medical know-how might be. It’s…

Health Andrew Liszewski

A Woman Replaced Her Soap With a Daily Mist of Bacteria—And It Worked

Since we dirty buggers have already made the case against antibacterial soap, it’s time to consider the case against all soap. And showers. Basically all hygiene as we know it in the 21st century. In the latest New York Times Magazine, Julia Scott gives up soap for a mist of bacteria usually found in dirt—and…

Health Sarah Zhang

NASA Has Discovered the Darkest Shadows in the Galaxy

NASA and the University of Zurich have announced the discovery of what are believed to be the darkest spots in the galaxy outside of a black hole’s event horizon. These shadows, formed by clumps of extremely dense gas clouds, were first observed using the Spitzer Space Telescope. They are part of a much larger cloud…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

This Electric Helmet Looks Goofy But It Zaps Deadly Brain Cancer

Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer. Nausea-inducing chemotherapy can prolong life by a few months, but there’s another gentler though funnier-looking treatment: a cap that literally zaps the tumor away. The FDA approved this cap, called NovoTTF in 2011, when clinical trials found that it as effective as…

Health Sarah Zhang

The Truth About Saccharin and Your Health

Saccharin is noted as being the first artificial sweetener, outside of the toxic Lead(II) acetate, and the first product to offer a cheap alternative to cane sugar. Interestingly enough, like the Chocolate Chip Cookie, it was also discovered entirely by accident. The chemical was discovered in 1878/9 in a small lab at Johns Hopkins University.…

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Canadian Man Rescues Baby Moose, Takes It To Tim Hortons

Because donuts solve all problems. CBC News reports how the man, Stephan Michel Desgroseillers, found himself caring for the tiny moose: Desgroseillers said his friends found the moose calf on Sunday, not in Copper Cliff, but on the side of Highway 144 near Dowling, walking into oncoming traffic. They debated what to do with the…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

This Is the Closest We’ve Ever Come to Recreating Shark Skin

Shark skin is famously sleek and dragless, the envy of swimsuit designers. Perhaps less famous is what shark skin’s oddly rough surface looks like up close: an eerie matrix of microscopic tooth-like scales. Now, scientists are 3D printing artificial shark skin in hopes of unlocking its swimming secrets. The 3D-printed shark skin above is the…

Physics & Chemistry Sarah Zhang

Finding, Treating, and Beating the Most Survivable Forms of Cancer

Being diagnosed with cancer is often compared to being kicked in the gut—by a Clydesdale. But if caught soon enough, many of the disease’s 200 iterations offer more than even survival rates, five years down the line. It’s by no means a clean bill of health, mind you, but there several forms of cancer that…

Health Andrew Tarantola

Mother Bear Heroically Saves Cub From Busy Highway

Joke all you want about chickens crossing roads, but highways really do pose a danger to wildlife. A bear cub learned that recently when it found itself a bit too close to oncoming traffic. Luckily, mom was nearby. According to the video’s description, a man named Ricky Forbes was driving through Canada’s Kootenay National Park,…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

We Still Don’t Know How Static Electricity Works

At some point in physics class, your teacher probably rubbed a balloon against his hair and explained static electricity. But what your teacher didn’t tell you—the full story about static electricity—is that scientists are just now realizing it is a lot more complicated than thought. The classic explanation, if you can remember back to physics…

Physics & Chemistry Sarah Zhang

So This is What Hedgehog Snoring Sounds Like

YouTuber Vusiuz has an albino hedgehog and her tiny little snores are definitely the most adorable thing you’ll hear all day. Whether those sounds are associated with dreams we can’t know for sure, but hedgehogs do probably have dreams and nightmares. In The History of Animals, Aristotle wrote: “It would appear that not only do…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

The Science of Losing Belly Fat

A quick internet search will yield countless claims of ways to remove the unwanted fat from around your mid-section. From over-hyped diet pills promising to reduce levels of cortisol to cutting-edge workouts. The truth is that there is no scientifically proven diet pill or exercise that will specifically target your stomachs fat vs the fat…

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French Lab Forced to Close After Losing Thousands of SARS Samples

Remember how that prestigious French laboratory lost over 2,000 vials of the SARS virus? Well, now it’s been unceremoniously shut down https://gizmodo.com/france-lost-thousands-of-vials-containing-the-sars-viru-1563797276 According to the AP, the Pasteur Institute has been forced to close it doors following an investigation by the ANSM medical safety agency. The ANSM chief inspector Gaetan Rudant explained that the inspectors…

Health Jamie Condliffe

The Mysterious Disease Traveling Across the Pacific in the Wind

For decades, doctors have been unable to answer the most basic question about Kawasaki disease: what causes it—a virus, a chemical, a fungus? Whatever it is, it provokes mysterious swelling and rashes in infants. Doctors now think they have finally figured out what causes Kawasaki—thanks to an analysis of the wind. Kawasaki disease is most…

Health Sarah Zhang

Why Did Thousands of California Fish Suddenly Turn Up Dead?

This photo might look like a bit of abstract art, but it’s actually a shot of thousands of fish – anchovies and sardines – that turned up dead en masse in Marina del Rey, near Los Angeles. What could explain the sudden death? Researchers are still investigating, but the most plausible explanation is a sudden,…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

Curiosity Took Hundreds of Microbes to Mars—And Many May Still Be Alive

Despite the best efforts of NASA, it’s impossible to put craft into space that are entirely clean. Now, a study shows that Curiosity was sent up to Mars with 377 strains of microbes aboard—and up to 11 percent may have made it to the surface of the red planet. Swabs taken prior to launch show…

Space & Spaceflight Jamie Condliffe

Mosquito Researcher Offers Her Own Arm To Hungry Mosquitoes

When you’ve got a colony of mosquitoes in your lab, you’ve got to feed them…and that can become just a bit uncomfortable. Photographer Alex Wild explains what’s going on in this photo: Rockefeller University’s Emily Dennis feeds her study subjects, Aedes aegypti. In the wild this species transmits yellow fever, dengue, and chikungunya, but lab…

Biology Jason G. Goldman

How Bell Labs Is Reinventing the Future All Over Again

In 1964, a pair of Bell Labs researchers in New Jersey pointed the world’s largest radio telescope to the skies and unwittingly stumbled upon one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century: cosmic background radiation. We talked with the legendary physicist behind that breakthrough to find out more—and with the president of Bell Labs…

Space & Spaceflight Andrew Tarantola

U.S. Physics Panel Wants to Build Billion-Dollar, 800-Mile Neutrino Beam

Why Only the Most Intelligent Mammals Make Friends

A Battery-Free, Pocket-Sized CPR Coach Ensures You’re Really Helping

A Woman Replaced Her Soap With a Daily Mist of Bacteria—And It Worked

NASA Has Discovered the Darkest Shadows in the Galaxy

This Electric Helmet Looks Goofy But It Zaps Deadly Brain Cancer

The Truth About Saccharin and Your Health

Canadian Man Rescues Baby Moose, Takes It To Tim Hortons

This Is the Closest We’ve Ever Come to Recreating Shark Skin

Finding, Treating, and Beating the Most Survivable Forms of Cancer

Mother Bear Heroically Saves Cub From Busy Highway

We Still Don’t Know How Static Electricity Works

So This is What Hedgehog Snoring Sounds Like

The Science of Losing Belly Fat

French Lab Forced to Close After Losing Thousands of SARS Samples

The Mysterious Disease Traveling Across the Pacific in the Wind

Why Did Thousands of California Fish Suddenly Turn Up Dead?

Curiosity Took Hundreds of Microbes to Mars—And Many May Still Be Alive

Mosquito Researcher Offers Her Own Arm To Hungry Mosquitoes

How Bell Labs Is Reinventing the Future All Over Again

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‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

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