Mystery illness kills over 50 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The main symptoms seen in the reported cases have included fever, chills, headache, body aches, sweating, neck stiffness, cough, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal cramps.
Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope reveals mysterious ‘light echo’ in the broken heart of Cassiopeia
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic ‘Phoenix’ cools off to birth stars
This assisted the researchers find the “missing out on” cooling gas that adds to star development. They additionally found that this gas, with a temperature of around 540,000 degrees Fahrenheit (300,000 levels Celsius), was located within cavities in the Phoenix Collection. The level of sensitivity of MIRI obtained a boost in this investigation from an...
‘It felt like dread.’ Hear what severe depression can do to people
But when you put someone in a PET scanner and you looked at the activity, the metabolism of the brain, there was a clear pattern that was very different from people who weren’t depressed.
Tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh is 1st to be discovered in 100 years
Nonetheless, unlike King Tut’s interment, the newly found burial place is primarily empty and doesn’t have a body. Excavators found that the tomb had actually been swamped soon after Thutmose II was hidden, so the serious products had been taken elsewhere, the statement stated. Owen Jarus is a routine contributor to Live Scientific research that...
The 7 most consequential moments in the history of everything
Our special feature serves as a reminder of how much asking when has already taught us about the grand sweep of cosmic and terrestrial history, from the switching on of the first stars to the first life on this planet.
Lasers reveal 15th-century fortified Zapotec city in Mexico
They found that "it covered 360 hectares [890 acres], with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres [2.5 miles] of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal spaces such as ballcourts, and the elites and commoners lived in separate neighbourhoods," according to astatement describing the research.
Sex leaves ‘microbial traces’ on genitalia, even when a condom is used — scientists call it the ‘sexome’
In general, the lady individuals had a higher volume of germs in their genital microbiomes than the male individuals did– corresponding to approximately 8,038 bacterial genetic sequences in women, compared to 6,661 in males. Men revealed a greater diversity of microbial varieties, with about twice the number of varieties represented contrasted with women. In the...
Earthquakes at massive Alaska volcano Mount Spurr ramp up again — and there’s now a 50-50 chance of an eruption
Mount Spurr, a snow-covered stratovolcano that sits 77 miles (124 kilometers) across the Cook Inlet from Anchorage, has been shuddering with small earthquakes since April 2024, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO).
Astronomers unsure what caused ‘weird explosion’ seen by Einstein Probe’s X-ray eye
"NICER's ability to steer to pretty much any part of the sky and monitor for weeks has been instrumental in our understanding of these unusual cosmic explosions," explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher and team member Dheeraj Pasham.
A man volunteered to get brain implants for depression. Hear his story
There are hockey sticks, softball catcher pads, golf clubs, balls of all sorts, bikes, inline skates, a mesh goal, and a super cute white motor scooter.
London Underground mutant mosquitoes have surprisingly ancient origins
To learn more about its origins, Lindy McBride at Princeton University and her colleagues analysed the DNA of 790 mosquitoes from 44 countries around the world, including the molestus and pipiens forms as well as some closely related species.
New type of brain cell may tell us when to stop eating
In the dorsal raphe nucleus – a part of the brainstem linked to functions including eating, mood and sleep – they came across cells that produce a hormone called cholecystokinin, which helps regulate appetite.
Math puzzle: Imagine there’s no zero
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Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveals new mysteries
Researchers have been capturing cosmic rays with different detectors for more than a century because their changing properties could serve as records of the solar system’s history, says Jamie Rankin at Princeton University.
Rice variant slashes planet-warming methane emissions by 70 per cent
“The core point of the study is they don’t use hard-core gene engineering or editing technologies or transgenic approaches,” says le Coutre.
A new kind of non-opioid painkiller gets FDA approval
In 2024, the drug company Vertex Pharmaceuticals reported that Journavx reduced pain compared with a placebo in people who had abdominal or foot surgery, although the effect was modest.
Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star’s habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?
In the world, our seasons are driven by our earth’s 23.4-degree tilt; for instance, northern summertime happens when our earth’s north hemisphere is tilted towards the sunlight. No matter the tilt of HD 20794d, its seasons are rather identified by just how much it has proceeded along its eccentric orbit. It is an exceptional planet....