“Ghostly” ocean giant spotted at intersection of Pacific and Indian oceans
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Mount Sinai Study: Safety Prompts Help AI Make Safer Clinical Choices
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Greenland fishers propose $45 bounty per heart to cull 1,000 sharks that can live 400 years; then the plan was halted after the government questioned its legality |
Greenland shark, Image: Saul Goner, SeaPics Greenland became the centre of an unusual dispute over one of the…
Relive Starship’s 1st-ever orbital flight with these epic SpaceX videos
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New X-ray Technique Helps Scientists Watch Quantum Materials Respond to Laser Pulses
Insider Brief Argonne researchers developed an X-ray imaging technique to track silicon carbide’s response to ultrafast laser pulses,…
Monkeys as service animals? The ‘bizarre’, tortured history of humans and primates | Life and style
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First Images of DNA ‘Zipping’ Together Confirm a 20-Year-Old Prediction
If you could peer inside a cell’s nucleus, you would find DNA tightly packed into a remarkably small…
10 Astonishing Animal Abilities Scientists Never Saw Coming
Animal behavior often seems predictable. Swallows follow the summer, ants build colonies, and most creatures run when they…
Study validates feasibility of European heavy-lift reusable rocket
ANTALYA, Turkey — A European Space Agency study has found it is technically and financially feasible for Europe…
Einstein Probe reveals a hidden phase of neutron star collisions
Short gamma-ray bursts, or short GRBs, are believed to occur when two compact objects, such as neutron stars,…
“Scientists are unsure how many exist or how rare they are.” Drone captures elusive animal the length of a shipping container hunting in Indonesia
A marine biologist in Indonesia captured spectacular footage of an Omura’s whale feasting on krill in the Dampier…
First Images of DNA ‘Zipping’ Together Confirm a 20-Year-Old Prediction : ScienceAlert
If you could peer inside a cell’s nucleus, you would find DNA tightly packed into a remarkably small…