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These Birds Learned to Avoid Yucky Food by Watching Videos on the Computer

Wild-caught birds in Finland seemingly learned to avoid certain foods by watching videos of other birds eating the snacks and reacting negatively, according to a new study. Some prey come in bright colors to advertise to predators that they’re poisonous and to attract and sicken naive predators. But if a new brightly colored animal enters…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Study Suggests Early Humans Had Even More Interspecies Sex

Before we became the only remaining humans on the planet, Homo sapiens mated with Neanderthals and the closely related Denisovans. New research is now revealing that the common ancestor of Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred with its own predecessor, a population of “superarchaic” hominids. This new model suggests a rewritten history of human evolution, and, if…

Human History Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Even Brief Mediation Can Help People Deal With Pain Better, Study Finds

A little dose of mindfulness might ease your perception of pain and unpleasant emotions, a small new study suggests. People who practiced a brief thought exercise before touching something hot or seeing negative images were less affected than when they weren’t practicing mindfulness, researchers found. Mindfulness and meditation—the concept of focusing your thoughts on a…

Health Ed Cara

20 Million Americans Have Crowdfunded to Pay for Medical Bills, Most Fail

Around 20 million Americans have tried to raise money through crowdfunding websites to pay off their or someone else’s medical bills, a new survey out Wednesday estimates. Meanwhile, one in five Americans has donated to these campaigns at least once, a third of the time to complete strangers. The survey comes from the NORC at…

Health Ed Cara

Scientists Create Atomic-Level Image of the New Coronavirus’s Potential Achilles Heel

Scientists studying the new coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands of people in China have published an atomic-resolution image of the protein that the virus uses to gain access to cells. This feat, which was accomplished using a Nobel Prize-winning method, could aid in the development of treatments or vaccines. The novel coronavirus (officially…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Researchers See Eagle Torturing Bat by Repeatedly Dropping It in the Ocean

White-bellied sea eagles are majestic, keen-eyed predators that soar effortlessly above coastal forests and marshes. They can also be colossal jerks. These eagles were recently spotted tormenting an innocent fruit bat, repeatedly carrying it out to sea and dropping it into the waves. In 2017, Sheema Abdul Aziz, a conservation ecologist with the Rimba research…

Biology Jake Buehler

Airing Out Your Home Doesn’t Reduce Indoor Air Pollution, Study Finds

Many of the potentially harmful chemicals found in our homes linger on walls and other surfaces, suggests a new study out Wednesday. Unfortunately, ventilating rooms with fresh air or cleaning surfaces might not do much to reduce our exposure to these contaminants. The new study, published in Science Advances, is part of a larger project…

Tech News Ed Cara

German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System in His Front Yard

Scientists have released their initial analysis of a meteorite that fell over Europe last September. They report that the rock, the remnant of a daytime bolide that impacted Earth with an energy of 0.48 kilotons of TNT (around this much), is a carbonaceous chondrite—the kind of meteor that contains material from the earliest epoch of…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Searching for Dark Matter With Quantum Computers, One Blip of Light at a Time

For decades, scientists have struggled to define the stuff that comprises a quarter of the universe: dark matter. As experiments continue to turn up empty-handed, one team hopes to find dark matter by incorporating the laws that govern subatomic particles—quantum mechanics—with a nascent kind of technology called a quantum computer. It’s what’s brought Fermilab scientist…

Physics & Chemistry Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Global Death Toll from COVID-19 Surpasses 2,000, Though China Maintains Outbreak Slowing Down

More than 2,000 people have died from the ongoing outbreak of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes a disease known as COVID-19, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing the latest figures including an updated tally from China’s National Health Commission. The official count of infected has now exceeded 75,100, most of them in the center of…

Health Tom McKay

SpaceX Plans to Send Tourists to ‘Twice the Altitude’ of Any Other Private Space Trip

SpaceX will work with space tourism company Space Adventures to send up to four people into space onboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, according to a press release. The mission will send wealthy tourists to “twice the altitude of any prior civilian astronaut mission or space station visitor,” according to a statement by Space Adventures chairman…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Why Are HIV Drugs Being Used to Treat the New Coronavirus?

On Tuesday, the Japanese government announced it will begin clinical trials to test treatments for the deadly new coronavirus that’s engulfed China and spread to over two dozen countries. Rather than new drugs, they’ll be studying existing medications already used to treat HIV and other viral diseases. But why exactly are researchers hopeful that these…

Health Ed Cara

Newly Discovered Neanderthal Skeleton Hints at Intentional ‘Flower Burial’

New excavations at a well-known Neanderthal site have revealed a previously undiscovered Neanderthal skeleton, along with more evidence that these extinct hominins may have had “flower burials” for their dead.  In the 1950s, archaeologist Ralph Solecki uncovered Neanderthal remains and tools in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Shanidar Cave, a find extremely influential to our modern understanding of…

Human History Ryan F. Mandelbaum

What Would It Be Like to Take a Road Trip Across Pluto?

You begin to wake up from stasis as your lander descends to Pluto’s surface. You strain to locate the Sun in the sky as you peek out the window; you finally spot it at the zenith as you wipe your eyes. Though brighter than anything else in the sky, the Sun is now 40 times…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Near-Earth Asteroid Sets Off Alert, Turns Out to Be Two Asteroids Hanging Out Together

An asteroid that whizzed within 3 million miles of Earth last week turned out to be two objects in a binary system, according to new observations. The automated Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Mauna Loa in Hawaii discovered 2020 BX12 on January 27. It immediately determined that the asteroid was a potentially hazardous…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Helmets From WWI Just as Protective Against Overhead Blasts as Modern Helmets

New research suggests helmets used in World War I protected soldiers against overhead artillery blasts just as well as modern helmets—and one, the French Adrian helmet, actually performed better. When the First World War started, soldiers didn’t wear helmets. Military planners hadn’t fully anticipated the horrific extent of modern warfare until it stared them back…

Health George Dvorsky

Four Shortlisted NASA Missions Would Explore the Nastiest Places in the Solar System

As part of its ongoing Discovery Program, NASA has selected four possible missions that would involve some of the most hostile and enigmatic places in the solar system. Established in 1992, NASA’s Discovery Program “gives scientists a chance to dig deep into their imaginations and find new ways to unlock the mysteries of our solar…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Oh Yeah, Betelgeuse Is Definitely Looking Weirder

At this point, we’re all crossing our fingers that the dying star Betelgeuse will hurry up and explode already, because who doesn’t love a good show? The red giant star (visible in the constellation Orion) has been growing dimmer since late last year, leading many to speculate it could soon go supernova. Scientists operating the…

Space & Spaceflight Ryan F. Mandelbaum

NASA Releases Remixed Version of Iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Photo

A humbling photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 probe from a distance of 3.7 billion miles has been reprocessed by NASA to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the image. On February 14, 1990, NASA’s Voyager probe turned its camera toward Earth, resulting in one of the most awesome photos ever taken. Unlike other…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky

Heading a Soccer Ball Can Worsen Cognition for Up to 24 Hours, Study Finds

A new study of soccer players seems to show that repeated mild blows to the head can affect athletes’ brain function, at least temporarily. It found evidence that players perform worse on simple tests of eye coordination and cognition right after heading a ball than players who simply kick it around, for up to 24…

Health Ed Cara

These Birds Learned to Avoid Yucky Food by Watching Videos on the Computer

Study Suggests Early Humans Had Even More Interspecies Sex

Even Brief Mediation Can Help People Deal With Pain Better, Study Finds

20 Million Americans Have Crowdfunded to Pay for Medical Bills, Most Fail

Scientists Create Atomic-Level Image of the New Coronavirus’s Potential Achilles Heel

Researchers See Eagle Torturing Bat by Repeatedly Dropping It in the Ocean

Airing Out Your Home Doesn’t Reduce Indoor Air Pollution, Study Finds

German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System in His Front Yard

Searching for Dark Matter With Quantum Computers, One Blip of Light at a Time

Global Death Toll from COVID-19 Surpasses 2,000, Though China Maintains Outbreak Slowing Down

SpaceX Plans to Send Tourists to ‘Twice the Altitude’ of Any Other Private Space Trip

Why Are HIV Drugs Being Used to Treat the New Coronavirus?

Newly Discovered Neanderthal Skeleton Hints at Intentional ‘Flower Burial’

What Would It Be Like to Take a Road Trip Across Pluto?

Near-Earth Asteroid Sets Off Alert, Turns Out to Be Two Asteroids Hanging Out Together

Helmets From WWI Just as Protective Against Overhead Blasts as Modern Helmets

Four Shortlisted NASA Missions Would Explore the Nastiest Places in the Solar System

Oh Yeah, Betelgeuse Is Definitely Looking Weirder

NASA Releases Remixed Version of Iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Photo

Heading a Soccer Ball Can Worsen Cognition for Up to 24 Hours, Study Finds

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