This spider uses trapped fireflies to lure in more prey
Behavioral ecologist Daiqin Li of Hubei University in Wuhan, China, and colleagues set up cameras on spiders’ webs in nearby farmland to watch what happened to fireflies caught in them.
We are finally improving prostate cancer diagnoses – here’s how
I am not the first person to be confused about prostate cancer and whether to test for it, but today these questions are of increasing importance because we are in the midst of a troubling global trend.
Your face’s hot spots may reveal how well you are aging
“We can use the thermal facial image to diagnose these diseases with fairly good accuracy of about 80 percent,” says computational biologist Jing-Dong Jackie Han of Peking University in Beijing.
Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone had roots in Scotland
A Scottish source for the Altar Stone adds to evidence that increasingly points to long-distance connections, including shared pottery styles and house plans, among Late Neolithic groups that inhabited the British Isles during Stonehenge’s construction phases, says archaeologist Alasdair Whittle of Cardiff University in Wales.
‘We can’t answer these questions’: Neuroscientist Kenneth Kosik on whether lab-grown brains will achieve consciousness
And then the big insight, which came from Yoshiki Sasai in Japan and Madeline Lancaster, was to take these neurons that were beginning to differentiate — cells relatively early in development — and put them in a drop of what's called Matrigel — a gel that can be either a liquid or a solid depending on the temperature.
Why the UK was so ill prepared for the covid-19 pandemic
As a result, when the covid-19 pandemic began there were no plans in place for implementing measures such as border controls, lockdowns or testing people and tracing their contacts to identify those who might be infected with the coronavirus and prevent them passing it on to others.
Jurassic Park inspires a new way to store DNA data
To test the resilience of the polymer, the researchers encapsulated strands of DNA containing the encoded Jurassic Park theme music and a human’s entire genetic instruction book in the amberlike material and then exposed it to temperatures of 55° Celsius, 65° C and 75° C at 70 percent humidity over seven days.
Anti-inflammatory drug extended the lifespan of mice by 20 per cent
While small doses of inflammation can protect us from disease or injury, excessive amounts damage cells, which is believed to accelerate ageing.
9 miles of solid diamonds may lurk beneath Mercury’s surface, new study finds
Mercury might have a thick layer of diamonds thousands of miles below its surface, a new research study programs. The searchings for, published June 14 in the journal Nature Communications, might aid fix mysteries concerning the earth’s composition and strange electromagnetic field. That latter attribute is what stimulated the curiosity of Yanhao Lin, a personnel...
I really want this Apple laptop Prime Day deal: Get $300 off the latest MacBook Pro
The MacBook Pro has long been the king of Apple laptops, however the 2021 revision brought with a brand-new style that returned additional ports, restored MagSafe billing and presented the stunning Liquid Retina XDR screen. Lloyd Coombes freelance technology and physical fitness author for Live Science. He’s a professional in all points Apple in addition...
Plants might not hold on to carbon as long as we thought
That fact became a scientific silver lining to the bomb tests: The bursts of radiocarbon circulating through Earth’s system, scientists realized, were a lot like pulses of radioactive medical tracers traveling through a human body.
Governments bans on quantum computer exports have no basis in science
There are two possibilities here: either they are wrong, as scientific evidence suggests, and pointless legislation is now being cut and pasted across the world, or they are right and have now alerted their adversaries that this is a number worth paying attention to.
‘Unprecedented and inconceivable’: pylon falls over after nuts removed
Recently, in the International Journal of Advance and Applied Research, Hanumant Dattatray Shinde of Shri Padmamani Jain Arts and Commerce College calculated that, over the course of a year, “up to 1.56 TMC [thousand million cubic metres]” of water evaporates from the Ghod Dam.
Panda ant: The wasps whose black and white females have giant stingers and parasitic babies
Panda ants have another uncommon skill– the capability to produce high-pitched noises by scrubing together components of their bodies such as their antennae or legs to caution off killers. Other wasps from the Mutillidae family can create similar sounds, the noise made by panda ants can get to ultrasonic levels. A female panda ant can...
‘Space hurricanes’ churn at both of Earth’s magnetic poles
When the lines reconnect, they roil ionized gas in the ionosphere, driving flows of electric current upward, the team suggests.
Floating whale carcasses are a problem – can we predict their drift?
After the satellite data was collected, the team used a search-and-rescue computer model to see what paths it simulated for various objects that resembled the profile of a dead whale, including a skiff, a life raft and a small vessel called a panga, based on the same location and weather conditions.
How doctors can help demystify birth control amid online confusion
Centering the patient during contraceptive counseling means validating and exploring their concerns and talking about “what you can do to support them in a treatment plan that feels good to them,” says Andrea Hoopes, an adolescent medicine physician-researcher at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.