science

Monday, August 31

TOI World Desk

Scientists took 232 gravity readings across a Utah mountain and discovered 1.55 million cubic metres of i - The Times of India

US News: From a distance it looks like nothing more than a sprawling pile of rocks high in Utah’s Wasatch Range. But beneath the rubble of Mount Timpanogos is .

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Your body is not a machine - Financial Times

Mechanical metaphors are useful, but such reductionism is no guide to life

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A fifth-grader in Kansas City clicked ball-and-stick atoms together in science class and asked her teacher if she'd made a real molecule — he photographed it, sent it to a chemistry professor, and at ten years old she became co-author of a published paper on a - Space Daily

A ten-year-old's casual question about her chemistry model kit led to a published paper describing a molecular structure that had eluded professional scientists for decades.

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At the Cape Canaveral power plant, a single winter count found 585 manatees packed into its warm-water discharge, because prolonged exposure below 68°F can kill a tropical mammal and a cooling system built to dump waste heat has become the artificial - Space Daily

A power plant's waste heat became an accidental refuge for an endangered species—until the infrastructure that saves them in winter threatens to trap them in dependence.

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If the Sun vanished right now, Earth would go dark eight minutes later — but if its sound could cross space at the speed it travels through air, the Sun’s final roar would continue reaching us for nearly 14 years, because light travels 874,000 times faster. - Space Daily

Across one astronomical unit, light takes about 499 seconds. A hypothetical sound wave moving through 20°C air would need 13.82 years, though real space cannot carry it.

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David Nield

Tiny Wrinkles in Graphene Turn It Into a Battery, Physicists Find - ScienceAlert

Graphene is a very special material, only one atom thick.

Saturday, August 29

The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolved - Space Daily

A thriving population of woolly mammoths vanished abruptly from a remote island, defying every expectation about how small, isolated groups collapse.

Saturday, August 29

Sam Jarman

How plastic welds retain a molecular 'memory' of their former surfaces to strengthen pipe joints - Phys.org

Welding plastic is a critically important part of everyday engineering—especially for preventing leaks in underground water and gas pipes. For decades, engineers have understood that a properly welded joint in polyethylene pipe can be just as strong as the pi…

Saturday, August 29

Ray Malik

Here's what wrapping your phone in aluminum foil does - How-To Geek

I wrapped my phone in tinfoil.

Saturday, August 29

Kit Roberts

Ancient volcano with the force of one million nuclear bombs found beneath England - LADbible

Scientists have analysed the terrifying power with which the volcano erupted

Saturday, August 29

A wood frog in North America can freeze through winter — its heart stops, it does not breathe and as much as 65% of its body water turns to ice — then thaw in spring and hop away, a feat scientists are studying for clues to preserving human organs - Space Daily

The wood frog's extreme hibernation strategy—where its heart stops and most of its body turns to ice—is teaching researchers how to preserve human organs for transplant, potentially solving one of medicine's most vexing problems.

Saturday, August 29

Victor Tangermann

A Scientist Was Presenting His Vibe-Coded New Work When One of His Colleagues Pointed Out Something Extremely Embarrassing - Futurism

Science communicator Paul Sutter accidentally presented AI hallucinations in front of many of his colleagues.

Saturday, August 29

Anthony Wood

When is the next lunar eclipse? - Space

When will Earth's shadow cover the moon next following the August 2026 partial lunar eclipse?

Saturday, August 29

Dario Radley

‘Hobbits’ walked more like humans than previously thought, study finds - Archaeology News Online Magazine

A new study finds the hobbit Homo floresiensis had a human-like pelvis, suggesting slower upright walking and leaving its origins uncertain.

Saturday, August 29

Yvonne Vávra

Bring Back the Spectacular: When the Upper West Side Had the Most Fabulous Basement in the City - West Side Rag

The Ansonia. Photo by Yvonne Vávra by Yvonne Vávra Alfred Hitchcock came just for the swimming. No sex. “He would

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