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Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a 'Woolly Mouse'

Scientific American - Tue, 04/03/2025 - 19:30

On their quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse

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The AI Future Is Here

Scientific American - Tue, 04/03/2025 - 16:00

AI’s integration into everything—untangling traffic snarls, dictating drug prescriptions, rewriting the rules of scientific discovery—is accelerating quickly

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Neuroscientists Should Set a High Bar for Evidence against Free Will

Scientific American - Tue, 04/03/2025 - 14:00

Neuroscience research claiming to question the existence of free will may have been misinterpreted

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Does Stopping Ozempic Cause Rebound Weight Gain and Health Problems?

Scientific American - Tue, 04/03/2025 - 14:00

Ozempic and similar GLP-1 weight-loss medications are designed to be a lifelong treatment. But a new study finds the majority of people who use these drugs quit after just two years

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Your Candy Cravings Might Be Controlled by This Gut Bacterium

Scientific American - Tue, 04/03/2025 - 13:45

Mouse and human studies suggest a connection between a gut microbe and the appetite-regulating hormone GLP-1

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Trump Official Who Tried to Downplay Major Climate Report Now Will Oversee It

Scientific American - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 23:15

Stuart Levenbach alarmed scientists years ago when he attempted to meddle with a congressionally mandated climate report

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The Surprisingly Difficult Mathematical Proof That Anime Fans Helped Solve

Scientific American - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 15:00

When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years

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Cutting a Parent Out of Your Life Isn’t Always the Right Solution

Scientific American - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 14:00

Popular culture paints going “no contact” as the best way to deal with hard family relationships. But it’s not always the right choice

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First Measles Death, Outbreaks of Mysterious Illness in DRC and Microbes in Space

Scientific American - Mon, 03/03/2025 - 13:00

In this news roundup, we cover outbreak updates, microbes in space and a brain turned to glass.

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Blue Ghost, a Private U.S. Spacecraft, Successfully Lands on the Moon

Scientific American - Sun, 02/03/2025 - 11:00

After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft

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Lower sperm motility in men exposed to common chemical

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 14:39
Men with higher exposure to the substance DEHP, a so-called phthalate, have lower sperm motility and may therefore experience more difficulties conceiving children, according to a new study.
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Real-time data for smart electric mobility

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 14:36
Information is the basis of smart mobility. Information technology can support the car driver in safe, inexpensive, and sustainable driving or organize reliable exchange of information among electric mobility users, cars, charging poles, fleet operators, workshops, and service providers. A new project now presents an electronic system that acquires data in real time and exchanges them across borders of systems in a standardized manner.
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Too big for its boots: Black hole is 30 times expected size

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 14:36
The central supermassive black hole of a recently discovered galaxy has been found to be far larger than should be possible, according to current theories of galactic evolution. New work shows that the black hole is much more massive than it should be, compared to the mass of the galaxy around it.
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Blacklists protect the rainforest

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 14:36
Brazil’s public authorities regularly publish “blacklists” of municipalities with high illegal deforestation rates. This environmental policy tool is working: scientists have found that the public shaming strategy reduced Amazon forest loss in the blacklisted districts by 26% per year.
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Kids with asthma that are exposed to secondhand smoke have twice as many hospitalizations

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 14:24
The risk for hospitalization doubles for kids with asthma who are exposed to secondhand smoke, according to a study. The study strengthens the association that previous studies have shown which links secondhand smoke exposure with increased asthma prevalence, poorer asthma control and increased symptoms.
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Cold snap: Climate cooling and sea-level changes caused crocodilian retreat

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 14:24
Fluctuating sea levels and global cooling caused a significant decline in the number of crocodilian species over millions of years, according to new research. In the future, the researchers suggest that a warming world caused by global climate change may favour crocodylian diversification again.
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Ticks carrying Lyme disease found in South London parks

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 14:24
Visitors to two popular parks in South London are at risk of coming into contact with ticks that can transmit Lyme disease to humans, according to new research.
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Man walks again after years of paralysis

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 03:39
The ability to walk has been restored following a spinal cord injury, using one's own brain power, according to research. The preliminary proof-of-concept study shows that it is possible to use direct brain control to get a person's legs to walk again.
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A new study predicts a quantum Goldilocks effect

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Thu, 24/09/2015 - 00:22
By studying a system that couples matter and light together, like the universe itself, researchers have now found that crossing a quantum phase transition at intermediate speeds generates the richest, most complex structure. Such structure resembles 'defects' in an otherwise smooth and empty space.
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Liquid crystals show potential for detection of neuro-degenerative disease

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News - Wed, 23/09/2015 - 21:14
Liquid crystals are familiar to most of us as the somewhat humdrum stuff used to make computer displays and TVs. Even for scientists, it has not been easy to find other ways of using them. Now a group of researchers is putting liquid crystals to work in a completely unexpected realm: as detectors for the protein fibers implicated in the development of neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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