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Three Harvard students built a low-cost headset that screens concussions fast

Jason Momoa warns coral reefs near extinction amid world's worst bleaching event

Nasa’s Apollo-Soyuz pocket calculator reached the Smithsonian 37 years after its 1975 mission

The Apollo-Soyuz mission featured a remarkable pocket-sized Hewlett-Packard calculator, designed to serve as a safeguard for critical navigational calculations. Now housed at the Smithsonian's…

Scientists solve mystery of black hole burps and when they launch jets

Scientists turn fish scales into biodegradable plastic that breaks down in soil in just 8 weeks

How conservation helped Iberian lynx recover from just 62 to over 2,000

Animals attacked even unrealistic caterpillar models, researchers found

38 Japanese macaques moved to Austria in 1996 grew to 160 in 23 years

Natural wool slowed glacier melt almost as well as synthetic covers

Madagascar rebuilt giant tortoises from 12 founders, with offspring showing more diversity

New snake discovered in Ethiopia after seven years of research

Why don't we remember being babies? The science behind it

We all experience infantile amnesia, meaning we can't remember our very first years. Although babies do create lasting memories, adults find it tough to recall them. The hippocampus and developing…

Millions of vultures vanished after a cattle drug, followed by 500,000 human deaths

For generations, vultures were part of the everyday landscape, clearing livestock carcasses before they could linger. In the 1990s, diclofenac caused their numbers to collapse from around 50 million.…

Quote of the day by Max Planck: "An experiment is a question which science.."

30 pregnant skinks moved to a New Zealand island showed a genetic surprise decades later

Eggshell powder replaced 10% of cement and strengthened mortar after 28 days

Researchers found waste eggshells can become a fine powder for mortar. This powder replaced cement, showing no reduction in compressive strength. The strongest results occurred when ten percent…

Florida researchers use robotic decoy rabbits to lure pythons out of hiding

In 1986, captive-bred bearded vultures returned to the Alps; by 2021, 344 lived there wild-born

Bearded vultures have returned to the Alps after decades of absence. A reintroduction program successfully established a self-sustaining population by 2021. Wild-hatched birds increasingly drove…

High school teacher discovers first reported T. rex trackway dating back 66.5 million years