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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter…

After leaving Odesa largely untouched by the barrages of drones and missiles it has launched against Ukraine this winter, Russia has struck the port city during March as never before in this war. On March 2, a Russian drone demolished a…

Ejections of plasma from the sun can create geomagnetic storms when they smash into Earth’s atmosphereJurik Peter/Shutterstock The largest recorded solar storm in history, the Carrington event of 1859, may have been…

About halfway between the Greek cities of Corinth and Lechaio, the area around Corinth’s ancient port is tectonically active. That makes the area even more…

Humans produce about 400 million metric tons of plastic waste each year. Some chemicals in plastics have been linked to health problems for humans and animals.…

Snakebites kill over 100,000 people each year, and hundreds of thousands of survivors are left with long-term disabilities such as amputations. Africa, Asia and Latin America are the regions most heavily affected. The most venomous…

The data turned up another surprise: The microbiomes in different places in the body were highly correlated. Even though different types of bacteria are present, when the microbiome of one body area changes, the others also shift.…

Colorado’s economy did much better than first estimated when it came to adding jobs last year and hiring is off to a strong start in 2024, according to an update Monday from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The U.S.…

Dennis DeGray’s path to the extraordinary world of brain-computer interfaces began with a mishap during the most mundane of chores: taking out the trash. He was running to the curb on a rainy night when he went flying head…

Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered by an icy shellNASA/JPL-Caltech Jupiter’s moon Europa may be less ripe for life than we thought. Although it has an ocean of water beneath its icy shell, the frigid moon may be short…

An artist’s rendition of the Europa Clipper mission, set to launch to Europa in October. The mission can provide new insights about the life-supporting potential of the moon, which hosts a massive saltwater…

An artist's rendition of the Europa Clipper mission, set to launch to Europa in October. The mission could provide new insights about the life-supporting…

Sarah Elise Sapper directed the helicopter pilot to land near the glaciers. Credit: Sarah Elise Sapper Global melting is prying the lid off…

The Author Evelyn Woodward Book Cover TOMAH, WISCONSIN, USA, February 28, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In the heart of the story is Susie, a young woman whose life takes a drastic turn after a near-death experience. Instead of…

New research sheds light on temperature and stress levels at a plate boundary in northern Honshu, Japan. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC…

Tridentinosaurus antiquus was discovered in the Italian alps in 1931 and was thought to be an important specimen for understanding early reptile evolution—but has now…

Orange elephant ear sponge, in the Gulf of Mexico. G. P. Schmahl, NOAA A controversial new…

This undated image provided by Amos Winter shows a sponge from the Caribbean. This sponge, a simple animal that filters water, and a handful of other centuries-old…

Feb. 6, 2024 -- What if there  was an easy way to enhance your brain function, reduce stress, boost your mood, and protect yourself against a host of health conditions — and that anyone can do it, even you? Science says it’s not too good…

About two months ago, I published an interview with Richard Poynder in which he discussed his recent announcement that he was “signing off from reporting on open access,” because “the movement has failed and is being rebranded…

The first members of our species to reach China might have entered the region from the northEsteban De Armas / Alamy Modern humans were living in what is now China by 45,000 years ago. The finding means our species…

Examples of box flights around five major surface mining facilities on different days show elevated downwind total gaseous organic carbon with total emissions derived…

Immediately after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, the owners of the bowling alley and the bar in Lewiston where the gunman killed a total of 18 people were certain their doors were closed for good. Yet as time passed, they…

A museum curator gives a sense of scale to the reconstructed jaws of the fossil shark Otodus megalodon. Rick Meyer / Contributor via Getty Images…

MIT graduate student Juana De La O describes herself as a food-motivated organism, so it’s no surprise that she reaches for food and baking analogies when she’s discussing her thesis work in the lab of…

One of the shelters used to mimic extreme drought, this one at the Central Plains Experimental Range, ColoradoMelinda Smith Grassland productivity drops by a larger amount than we had thought during extreme drought,…

The original Voyager 2 photo of Neptune (left) and the reprocessed image from the new study (right)Patrick Irwin Neptune’s true colour is a pale greenish-blue similar to that of Uranus, contrary to popular images…

The original Voyager 2 photo of Neptune (left) and the reprocessed image from the new study (right)Patrick Irwin Neptune’s true colour is a pale greenish-blue similar to that of Uranus, contrary to popular images…

CREDIT: Creative Commons For the past few decades, some scientists have claimed there is a massive reservoir of water hundreds of miles below Earth’s surface that has more water in it than that which is in all of Earth’s oceans…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Fetterman acknowledges having “dark conversations” about harming himself before he hit “the emergency brake” and sought treatment for depression.He remembers thinking about his three school-age kids. “I…

Fire history from 1450 to 1950 ce at 16 data collection sites across the upper Middle Fork study area. Upper panels show individual tree ring series (horizontal…

A recent study stated that the San Andreas Fault would likely shake 65% less than what has current hazard models say. Experts recently disclosed that the Mojave section of this fault is expected to unleash a massive earthquake to rival…

Today's ice sheet in Antarctic and that during the Last Interglacial when seaways allowed connections between octopus populations. Scientists…

 The tremor was centred on the village of Kimelford, Argyll, in west ScotlandBy Summer Goodkind Published: 10:01 EST, 26 December 2023 | Updated: 10:02 EST, 26 December 2023 <!-- <!-- -->…

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Stuart Leitch. Stuart is the Chief Technology Officer at Silverchair. Artificial intelligence and large language models have the potential to change, even disrupt, every aspect of scholarly…

Introduction In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic (1, 2). As of July 2023, there were 768 million reported cases and approximately 6.95 million COVID-19 fatalities (3). Subsequent waves,…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain We are biodiversity researchers—an ecologist, a mathematician and a taxonomist—who were locked down together during…

Illustration of the proposed QuadAttackK method in comparison with the prior art (e.g., the adversarial distillation (AD) method ). Credit: Thomas Paniagua et al,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over 4 million hectares of tree cover—an area equivalent to the size of Switzerland—may have been cleared…

In a study supported in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and published in the journal PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern…

The Arctic Ocean has been warming since the onset of the 20th century, decades earlier than instrument observations would suggest, according to new research. James Overland is quoted.  Scientist(s): …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Heat from the landmass beneath the Antarctic ice sheet is a major contributor to the way that glaciers melt and…