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The anthropologist who says shamanism works, even ...
Shamanism is on the rise, both in practice and in popular culture. Manvir Singh has spent years expl...
How human eggs stay fresh for decades
In human beings, egg cells need to survive for about five decades, much longer than most other cell ...
Underwater volcanic brine pools could be home to e...
An expedition in the Red Sea found several brine pools that appear to be fed by underwater volcanoes...
Ancient rocks show earliest evidence of tectonic a...
The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows tha...
We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can...
Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "alterma...
Brain changes with eating disorders similar to tho...
In children with anorexia nervosa or other restrictive eating disorders, changes in the brain’s oute...
Why you shouldn't worry a nap will stop your child...
Parents may discourage naps out of concern that their child won't then sleep at night, but research ...
Complex knots can actually be easier to untie than...
Mathematicians have solved a decades-old problem in knot theory, discovering that linking two knots ...
Water might be even more important for alien life ...
Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon diox...
Climate scientists urge others to take up CO2 trac...
Proposed budget cuts in the US will lead to the loss of vital carbon dioxide measurements, but no ot...
Built-in fire extinguishers can prevent battery ex...
Adding fire-suppressing chemicals into batteries can prevent overheating, fires and explosions, cutt...
Nor'easters slamming New England are growing more ...
Much like hurricanes further south, the strongest storms to pummel the US north-east are getting eve...
You don't need to take drugs like Ozempic consiste...
People with disrupted access to GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, still seem to lose substantial amounts of...
The truth about de-extinction: is it even possible...
Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosy...
Are batteries based on contact lenses the future o...
UK company Superdielectrics says its polymer technology could make batteries cheaper and easier to r...
Most warming this century may be due to air pollut...
Satellite data suggests cloud darkening is responsible for much of the warming since 2001, and the g...
LIGO has spotted the most massive black hole colli...
A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a rec...
How government use of AI could hurt democracy
Countries are eager to use AI to automate some government processes, but this risks eroding citizens...
