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At-home experiments shed light on cats’ liquid behavior

Cats may seem solid, but they’re actually somewhat liquid — at least according to one 2017 theoretical...

The Doctor Behind the ‘Suicide Pod’ Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life

The world’s first assisted suicide pod wraps around the human body like a space capsule, tilting gently...

Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so Florida Deployed a Machine to Harvest It From Air

As Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast the evening of October 9, a deluge of...

Your brain can perceive subtle odor changes in a single sniff

Human sniffs last between one and three seconds. During that time, chemicals enter the nose and...

SpaceX’s Dramatic Rocket Catch Brings Interplanetary Travel One Step Closer

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.SpaceX has reached an important...

Cells From Different Species Can Exchange ‘Text Messages’ Using RNA

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For a molecule of RNA, the world is...

TikTokkers Say Cinnamon Helps Burn Fat. Here’s What the Science Says

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Cinnamon has been long used around...

The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The term “climate haven”...

Navigation research often excludes the environment. That’s starting to change

Citations P.F. Velasco and H.J. Spiers. Wayfinding across ocean and tundra: what traditional cultures teach us about...

Saturn’s first Trojan asteroid has finally been discovered

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such...

DNA from old hair helps confirm the macabre diet of two 19th century lions

A pair of male lions that roamed Kenya more than a century ago gained notoriety as the...

Radioactive beams give a real-time view of cancer treatment in mice

Cancer-busting particle beams have been caught in the act. Particle beams can provide a blast of destructive...
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