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Fossils in germany reveal a Jurassic sea monster with a swordfish snout
An international research team from Switzerland and Germany, led by Gaël Spicher (JURASSICA Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland), has described a new ichthyosaur species based on fossils curated at the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (Bayreuth, Germany)….
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Microplastics Could Be Weakening Your Bones, Research Suggests
Microplastics could be a factor in driving up cases of osteoporosis worldwide, according to recently published research. The study reveals that when these tiny plastic particles enter the body, they disrupt the functioning of bone marrow stem…
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The Surprising Way Parents Transfer Longevity to Offspring
Research in C. elegans shows that longevity-related changes in lysosomes can be passed from parents to offspring. The study links lysosomes to the epigenome and reveals a new way epigenetic information is inherited, allowing organisms… Continue Reading
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Miscarriages, down syndrome, and infertility all linked to this hidden DNA process
When a woman becomes pregnant, the outcome of that pregnancy depends on many things — including a crucial event that happened while she was still growing inside her own mother’s womb. It depends on the quality of the egg cells that were already…
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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Vandenberg in California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the dusk sky over southern California on Sunday (Sept. 28) as it carried a new stack of 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.
The evening launch at 10:04 p.m. EDT (0204 GMT on Sept. 29 or 7:04 p.m. PDT local…
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JWST Finds Bizarre Planet Is Baked by Auroras, Far From Any Sun : ScienceAlert
What can auroras on a rogue planet teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution?
This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address, as an international team of researchers investigated the…
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A wormhole from another universe? Scientists revisit the puzzling black hole GW190521
In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as GW190521, was unusual straight away because…
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The Sound of Earth’s Flipping Magnetic Field Is an Unnerving Horror : ScienceAlert
Earth’s magnetic field dramatically flipped roughly 41,000 years ago. Now you can actually ‘hear’ this epic upheaval, thanks to a clever interpretation of information collected by the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite mission.
Combining…
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New species of mollusk discovered at the bottom of the ocean
About 300 miles (480 kilometers) southeast of Tokyo, a crewed submersible peered at a ledge of volcanic rock and spotted something unusual. A limpet with a thin, bluish shell sat on the rock at a depth of about 19,430 feet (6 kilometers).
The…
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