Fossils of a tiny sea creature solve century-old debate over brain evolution in arthropods - News-Medical.Net
News-Medical.Net (November 24, 2022, 9:34 pm) - Fossils of a tiny sea creature that died more than half a billion years ago may compel a science textbook rewrite of how brains evolved. Read more
China lays out plan for future deep space exploration - asianews.network
Asianews.network (November 24, 2022, 9:09 pm) - China has made an ambitious road map for its future lunar exploration programs, including an international scientific outpost, according to the programs' chief planner. Wu Weiren, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that the next step i… Read more
New CRISPR-based tool inserts large DNA sequences at desired sites in cells - EurekAlert
EurekAlert (November 24, 2022, 9:00 pm) - Building on the CRISPR gene-editing system, MIT researchers designed a new tool that can snip out faulty genes and replace them with new ones. The new technique, PASTE, could hold promise for treating diseases that are caused by defective genes with a large n… Read more
The End of the Universe with poet Alicia Sometimes (Part 2 of 2) - ABC News
ABC News (AU) (November 24, 2022, 8:49 pm) - If the universe began with a big bang, how will it end? This question has suddenly got very personal for acclaimed science poet Alicia Sometimes. Physicists have got some hair-raising ideas, from the Big Crunch to the Big Rip. The personal, the poetic, and t… Read more
Man Keeps Rock For Years, Hoping It's Gold. It Turns Out to Be Far More Valuable - ScienceAlert
ScienceAlert (November 24, 2022, 7:54 pm) - In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia. Read more
Nasa astronaut reveals what space agency are hoping to find on the Moon... - The Irish Sun
The Irish Sun (November 24, 2022, 7:36 pm) - NASA'S Artemis 1 Moon mission is well underway and will prepare the US space agency for putting humans back on the lunar surface. With Nasa's sites firmly set on exploring more on the M… Read more
China lays out plan for future deep space exploration - China Daily
中国日报 (November 24, 2022, 5:51 pm) - China will carry out more deep space exploration missions in the next 10 to 15 years, said Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in a recent interview. Read more
At least 700,000 years ago, the world's largest sand island emerged as the barrier that helped the Great Barrier Reef form - Australia Today
Theaustraliatoday.com.au (November 24, 2022, 5:23 pm) - The volumes of sand carried along the coast are immense. It is estimated 500,000 cubic metres of sand moves north past each metre of shoreline every year. Read more
Scientists Discover Ancient Turtle as Big as a Car - VOA Learning English
VOA News (November 24, 2022, 4:57 pm) - The ancient turtle was much larger than today's largest turtle - the leatherback, which can reach 2 meters long. Leviathanochelys nearly matched the largest turtle on record - Archelon, which lived roughly 70 million years ago and reached about 4.6 meters lon… Read more
525-million-year-old fossil defies textbook explanation for brain evolution - EurekAlert
EurekAlert (November 24, 2022, 4:36 pm) - According to a new study, fossils of a tiny sea creature with a delicately preserved nervous system solve a century-old debate over how the brain evolved in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom. Combining detailed anatomical studies o… Read more
What's the Best Mix of Oceans to Land for a Habitable Planet? - Universe Today
Universe Today (November 24, 2022, 4:03 pm) - Habitable planets need surface water to support life, but how much of it? How much land? Is there a necessary equilibrium? Read more
Webb Space Telescope spots early galaxies hidden from Hubble - Phys.org
Phys.Org (November 24, 2022, 4:00 pm) - NASA's Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that until now were hidden from view, including one that may have formed a mere 350 million years after the cosmic-creating Big Bang. Read more
New findings on exoplanet captured by NASA's James Webb telescope can be 'game changer', says scientists - Economic Times
The Times of India (November 24, 2022, 3:58 pm) - The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a photograph of an exoplanet, 700 light years away from Earth, whose sky chemical components have been captured to reveal the individual molecules of its chemical composition. Read more
New Measurements Provide a Glimpse of the Quantum Future - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily (November 24, 2022, 3:19 pm) - A multi-institutional team has created an efficient method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs, a kind of photon source, on a single optical chip using already available experimental and computational resources. Despite th… Read more
James Webb: telescope uncovers chemical secrets of distant world – paving the way for studying Earth-like planets - The Conversation
The Conversation Africa (November 24, 2022, 3:14 pm) - The James Webb space telescope is making the headlines again – this time completing its first chemical inventory of a distant, exotic world. Read more
Human evolution wasn't just the sheet music, but how it was played - Anti Aging News
Worldhealth.net (November 24, 2022, 2:44 pm) - A team of Duke researchers has identified a group of human DNA sequences driving changes in brain development, digestion and immunity that seem to have evolved rapidly after our family line split from that of the chimpanzees, but before we split with the Nean… Read more
Webb telescope reveals blazing hourglass around forming star - Phys.org
Phys.Org (November 24, 2022, 2:32 pm) - The James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its latest image of celestial majesty on Wednesday, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its center. Read more
How Can Earth Avoid An Asteroid Strike? - Newsy
Newsy (November 24, 2022, 2:26 pm) - If a meteor actually hits Earth, it's called a meteorite. As many as 30 pebble sized ones strike the planet each day. Read more
Microscale structure of rock affects microseismicity at underground carbon dioxide storage site – Physics World - physicsworld.com
physicsworld.com (November 24, 2022, 2:19 pm) - New study reveals the complexity of induced seismicity from carbon sequestration Read more
A Low-Cost Drug From the 1960s Could Help Treat Colon Cancer - SciTechDaily
SciTechDaily (November 24, 2022, 2:09 pm) - Researchers from the University of Auckland have discovered that new combinations and formulations of older medicines are promising for the treatment of bowel cancer. According to a team of University of Auckland scientists, the use of old drugs in new combin… Read more
