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Woman Says Test Revealed Her Parents' Fertility Doctor Was Actually Her Father
Gizmodo - Kristen V. Brown
It’s become a familiar story in the age of consumer DNA testing: A person spits into a test tube to learn more about their genetic heritage, and ends …
Plants
Dinosaurs were dying off long before asteroid hit: Study | science
hindustantimes.com
Dinosaurs were in trouble long before the massive asteroid — believed to be the primary cause of their extinction — hit the earth some 65 million …
Animals
Long-lived bowhead whales found singing over 180 different songs
Mashable - Mark Kaufman
Bowhead whales are mysterious, Arctic-dwelling creatures. Scientists believe they can live for over two centuries, and even so, they largely avoid …
Dark Matter
This New Detector Technology Aims to 'Scintillate' Elusive Dark Matter Particles
space.com - Nancy Atkinson, Seeker
A group of researchers say they may be able to look directly for dark matter in brand new way. By using a new combination of materials in the form of …
The Future
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Conscious?
hackernoon.com - Cameron McLain
Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about AI. There’s a lot of hype, excitement, and angst in the press about AI’s advancement. It’s …
Health
An Experimental Superbug Killer Is a Tiny Step Closer to Saving Us From the Antibiotic Apocalypse
Gizmodo - Ed Cara
A class of antibiotics heralded as an essential future weapon against drug-resistant superbugs passed an important test. There’s now evidence that …
Physicists Have Created a New Form of Light
curiosity.com - Ashley Hamer
Particles tend to interact. The interacting particles you're probably most familiar with are electrons, the negatively charged hangers-on of an atom. …
Shell's Plan to Save Us From Climate Change Makes a Dangerous Assumption
Popular Mechanics - By Avery Thompson
The necessary tech may never exist. Reining in the effects of a changing climate before they become truly catastrophic will require monumental, collective effort. But exactly what that effort will entail
Los Angeles
Genes in songbirds hold clues about human speech disorders, biologists report
phys.org - Stuart Wolpert
Insights into how songbirds learn to sing provide promising clues about human speech disorders and may lead to new ways of treating them, according …
The Brain
Smile! Your dog’s brain will light up in response
sciencemag.org - Virginia Morell
As every dog lover—and scientist—knows, man’s best friend is good at reading faces. Dogs can tell the difference between happy and not-so-happy …
Exoplanets
ARIEL: Exploring strange new worlds and boldly observing what no telescope has observed before. - Science in the News
harvard.edu
Since the first exoplanet discovery in the 1990s, scientists have learned of the diverse and abundant nature of exoplanets, having now found more …
Quantum Mechanics
Can the causal order between events change in quantum mechanics?
phys.org - University of Vienna
Researchers at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences develop a new theoretical framework to describe how causal structures in …
Are science fairs unfair?
hechingerreport.org - Daisy Yuhas
A second grader in Mississippi explains his winning science fair project to members of his class. Credit Image: © Stan Carroll/The Commercial …
IMF
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24matins.uk
News The number of Afghans killed or wounded by air strikes rose 39 percent in the first nine months of 2018, the UN said Wednesday, as the …
Parrots
The tragic story of America's only native parrot, now extinct for 100 years
phys.org - Kevin R. Burgio
In a world that faces extinction on a scale not seen in the past 65 million years, some of you may wonder: Aren't there more important things to …
Autism Spectrum
Young Children with Autism May Have Abnormal Brain Connections
Healthline
Preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder may have abnormal connections between networks of their brain. Researchers say these abnormalities can be …
Beyond the face: how context modulates emotion processing in frontotemporal dementia subtypes
oup.com - Fiona Kumfor
The importance of assessing social cognition to characterize dementia syndromes is increasingly recognized, with lower social cognition capacity …
Dream job alert! NASA is looking for a few good mission control directors
Fast Company - By Daniel Terdiman
You’ve seen them in movies. You’ve probably pictured yourself in their seats. And now you could be one of them: NASA is looking to hire new mission control flight directors for the famed Johnson Space
Fish
This Story of How a Freshwater Fish Crossed The Salty Ocean Is Pretty Wild
Science Alert - DAVID NIELD
You couldn't make this stuff up. What we know for certain is that there are small guppy fish – Poecilia vivipara – on the Fernando de Noronha …
Space
If Earth Were an Alien Planet, It Would Be Classed Habitable - But Getting Worse
Science Alert - DAVID NIELD
Our precious blue marble. By applying methods used to evaluate the chances of life on other planets, scientists have concluded that Earth is indeed …
Meet the people volunteering to defend nature in their local communities
The Guardian - Emma Sheppard
Voluntary Sector Network,Charities,Society,Voluntary sector,Volunteering,Spring,Environment,Environmental activism,Protest,Friends of the Earth As spring arrives and campaigners in Sheffield win a temporary
Los Angeles
A runaway star in the Small Magellanic Cloud
phys.org - Lowell Observatory
Astronomers have discovered a rare "runaway" star that is speeding across its galaxy at a 300,000 miles per hour (at that speed it would take about …
Blood Pressure
Increase in heart rate as blood pressure falls could be early sign of neurological disease
eurekalert.org
A simple bedside test that matches a change in heart rate with a drop in blood pressure after a patient stands may help doctors diagnose certain …
Environment
Shell oil just unveiled a plan to move the world away from fossil fuels
inhabitat - by Kristine Lofgren
Royal Dutch Shell just laid out a proposal to move us away from its own product. The company’s Sky Scenario is a plan to help the world meet the …
Foreign languages: How to memorise vocabulary
The Telegraph - By Telegraph Writers
When trying to learn a foreign language, most of us have the same complaint: “I’m just not good at memorising.” Learning new vocabulary can be daunting, especially for busy adults whose minds are already
The Sun Is Spitting Out Strange Patterns of Gamma Rays—and No One Knows Why
scientificamerican.com - Shannon Hall
Our closest star remains an enigma. Every 11 years or so its activity crescendos, creating flares and coronal mass ejections—the plasma-spewing …
Young-Earth Creationism is Cruel
patheos.com - Fred Clark
Young-earth creationism is a cruelly efficient machine for manufacturing spiritual crisis. It has created more atheists than all of Richard Dawkins' …
Adam Grant
According to Psychologist Adam Grant, This Is the Best Way to Respond to Negative Feedback
Inc Magazine - By Rohini Venkatraman
When we receive negative feedback, our bodies react instinctively. Physiologically, our shoulders tense up and our breath becomes more shallow. What's worse is that, according to studies on how we respond