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David Attenborough-voiced AR app lets you fill your home with extinct animals
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (315+ words) Seeing a saber-toothed tiger on your TV screen is all very well and good, but what about sitting next to one on the couch? A new David Attenborough-fronted app, Museum Alive, aims to let you do exactly that, using AR…...
That Powder You Put in Your Gym Shake May Have Another Benefit
34+ min ago (150+ words) Newser That Powder You Put in Your Gym Shake May Have Another Benefit Creatine's reputation as a gym staple may be getting an upgrade. UCLA researchers report that the supplement, best known for boosting muscle performance, also appears to energize…...
Why You Hate Eating Bugs: DNA Reveals a 9,000-Year-Old Legacy
11+ hour, 50+ min ago (555+ words) Ancient DNA indicates that humans’ ability and willingness to eat insects may have depended strongly on geography. Eating insects is normal in many parts of the world, but in much of Europe and North America, the idea still triggers disgust....
Ancient fossil may reveal first-ever 'right-handedness' in the animal kingdom
33+ min ago (972+ words) Fossils of Spriggina floundersi from South Australia. Because the fossils preserve mirror-image impressions of the animals, a leftward bend in the rock indicates the animal turned right in life. (CREDIT: Scott Evans / AMNH) Spriggina floundersi was only a few centimeters…...
Extinction risk is not the right first sentence — LessWrong
44+ min ago (180+ words) Money wins quiet fights but votes win louder ones. What actually moves the public to act on AI, and why it decides which regulations and safeguards s…...
Out in Print: 'Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn from Animal Sex"
4+ hour, 19+ min ago (642+ words) Did you know you can view homepages related to your area? Select a location and bookmark it today. LGBTQ Local News, Voices and Community for the Carolinas According to Cole Porter, bees do, too, but it’s not exactly what he…...
A bird’s brain holds clues to the sounds of music
2+ hour, 19+ min ago (767+ words) Imagine a chicken that could speak or a pigeon with a voice rivaling that of the most musical songbirds. Granted, the world probably doesn’t need any gossiping chickens or pigeons breaking out in song. But why some birds learn to…...
Scientists Catch a “Jumping Gene” Moving Between Species
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (314+ words) The finding, made by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, shows that genes are not always inherited only from parent to offspring. Some genes can move, and in this case, the researchers directly observed evidence…...
They sent a robot 8,500 feet beneath the ocean looking for a ‘methane factory.’ Instead, it uncovered carnivorous sea plants and a ‘Dark Ivory’ coral
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (550+ words) Approximately 8,500 feet below the surface lies a mystery. An ROV equipped with cameras was sent to explore it. Scientists were investigating cold seeps, areas of the seafloor where methane escapes from the sediment. What did the ROV discover, and where…...
Magnetotactic bacteria project aims to develop living cancer ‘magnetobots’
1+ hour, 20+ min ago (485+ words) Aston University is leading a €1.2m international research project to investigate whether naturally magnetic bacteria can be harnessed to deliver targeted cancer therapies. Funded through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Staff Exchanges programme, the MagBIO project brings together 18 partner organisations from…...