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Lesbians more likely to be overweight as experts find sexuality is linked to health
Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be overweight than heterosexual women, research has shown for the first time, as experts said sexual identity should now be viewed as a health risk factor.
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Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be overweight than heterosexual women, research has shown for the first time, as experts said sexual identity should now be viewed as a health risk factor.Scientists Dressed Horses Like Zebras to Figure Out Why They Have Stripes
Why do zebras have stripes?
Evolutionary biologists have proposed many possible theories, such as camouflage or vision aids for recognizing individual zebras. But in recent years, pest control has emerged as the leading explanation for zebra stripes.
Why do zebras have stripes?
Evolutionary biologists have proposed many possible theories, such as camouflage or vision aids for recognizing individual zebras. But in recent years, pest control has emerged as the leading explanation for zebra stripes.
Why microwaving grapes creates a dazzling plasma light show
It’s a crowd-pleasing party trick: Cut a grape in half, pop it in the microwave, hit “start” then sit back and watch the dazzling “grape balls of fire.” Now a team of Canadian scientists has figured out how grapes generate plasma in your kitchen. Wayward Satellites Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
The botched launch of two Galileo navigation probes made for an unexpected experiment Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor
Can the minds of machines teach us something new about what it means to be human? When it comes to the intricate story of our species’ complex origins and evolution, it appears that they can. Polar vortex: The science behind the cold
The polar vortex, a swirl of low-pressure air six miles up in the atmosphere, blasted much of the American Midwest and Northeast in late January 2019 with temperatures cold enough to bring on frostbite within minutes.Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards
Reports of meteorite strike in western Cuba
Residents and tourists in a town in western Cuba saw a flare pass through the sky and heard an explosion Friday in what officials said was a meteorite strike.
Residents and tourists in a town in western Cuba saw a flare pass through the sky and heard an explosion Friday in what officials said was a meteorite strike. An Unexpected New Measurement of The Universe Suggests We Need to Update Our Physics
For the first time, astronomers have used supermassive black holes from just after the Big Bang to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. Now, we have a bigger mystery on our hands than the answer this effort provided.China clones monkeys and deliberately edits genes to make them mentally ill
Chinese geneticists have been criticised after cloning five monkeys that were deliberately "edited" to be mentally ill.
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Chinese geneticists have been criticised after cloning five monkeys that were deliberately "edited" to be mentally ill.
If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease. Here's how to watch the total lunar eclipse and 'super blood wolf moon'
Sky gazers are in for a treat this weekend as a ‘super blood wolf moon’ aligns with the sun and the Earth for a total lunar eclipse. Here’s how, when, and where to watch the spectacular cosmic event. Adding new DNA letters make novel proteins possible
THE FUZZY specks growing on discs of jelly in Floyd Romesberg’s lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla look much like any other culture of E. coli. But appearances deceive—for the DNA of these bacteria is written in an alphabet that has six chemical letters Fossils discovered at B.C.'s Burgess Shale add branch to tree of life
The tiny remains of an extinct bug-like creature discovered at British Columbia's 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossil deposit add a new branch to the evolutionary tree of life, says a PhD student who tracked down the organism's development. Father of DNA stripped of honorary titles after saying he still believes in link between race and intelligence
James Watson, renowned for his landmark co-discovery of the double-helix, is known for sometimes making remarks seen as sexist, homophobic or racistInvestigation of NOAA climate scientists finds bupkis
During his run as chair of the House Science Committee, recently retired Texas Congressman Lamar Smith made a habit of accusing US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists of manipulating data to exaggerate global warming. Smith did so a
During his run as chair of the House Science Committee, recently retired Texas Congressman Lamar Smith made a habit of accusing US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists of manipulating data to exaggerate global warming. Smith did so a Scientists warn Earth's magnetic North Pole has begun moving erratically at speeds of 50km a yearScience | 81285 hits | 10:34 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Researchers say the magnetic North Pole is 'skittering' away from Canada, towards Siberia. Once considered outlandish, the idea that plants help their relatives is taking root
Some plants appear to move leaves, roots to share resources with kin Uranus was pushed over on its side by giant rock, research shows
Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth.
Storm surge unearths 'incredible' trove of dinosaur fossils in U.K.
A unique cache of well-preserved dinosaur fossils from 100 million years ago have been unearthed in the cliffs near Hastings, England. The detailed fossils show claw imprints and skin textures from at least 7 dinosaur species
A unique cache of well-preserved dinosaur fossils from 100 million years ago have been unearthed in the cliffs near Hastings, England. The detailed fossils show claw imprints and skin textures from at least 7 dinosaur species Saturn's iconic rings are disappearing, study says
It is one of the most admired planets in our solar system: Saturn. But a new study suggests that the ringed beauty will lose its most stunning feature. According to the study published in the journal Icarus, Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun and the o Scientists find solar system's farthest known object, name it Farout
Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system, and they've nicknamed the pink cosmic body "Farout." "Farout" is about 120 astronomical units away -- that's 120 times the distance between Earth and the sun, or 11 billion miles. In the quest to build a better battery, a Canadian is energizing the field
Canadian Don Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at MIT, has captured the attention of the world with his quest to build a better battery.'Magma shift' may have caused mysterious seismic wave event
Vibrations off Madagascar baffled experts but now they believe they have the answer
Vibrations off Madagascar baffled experts but now they believe they have the answer CN Rail developes energon cubes
CN Rail is developing a product that essentially transforms crude oil into a solid product, which they say would be safer for the environment and more cost friendly compared to traditional oil shipping by train.Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative Physicists detected gravitational waves from four new black-hole mergers 
At a weekend workshop in Maryland, physicists from the LIGO and Virgo collaboration reported four previously unannounced detections of gravitational waves from merging black holes, including the biggest-known black-hole collision to date, roughly 5 billioA Mysterious Seismic Wave Recently Shook Earth, And Scientists Can't Explain It
Scientists are at a loss to explain a strange seismic event that shook the planet on November 11 and was picked up by earthquake sensors stationed across the globe.
Scientists are at a loss to explain a strange seismic event that shook the planet on November 11 and was picked up by earthquake sensors stationed across the globe.Every person was spawned from single pair of adults living up to 200,000 years ago, scientists claim
Scientists from the Rockefeller University and the University of Basel surveyed genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals and deduced that we sprang from a single pair.
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Scientists from the Rockefeller University and the University of Basel surveyed genetic 'bar codes' of five million animals and deduced that we sprang from a single pair.Replication failures in psychology
Half of 28 attempted replications failed even under near-ideal conditions.
Science | 81471 hits | 2:42 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Half of 28 attempted replications failed even under near-ideal conditions. Dying star could unleash powerful gamma-ray burst in our galaxy
About 8,000 light-years from Earth lies a star system unlike any astronomers have ever seen. And within that star system lies a ticking bomb - a gamma-ray burst. An asteroid impact on Greenland left a massive crater under the ice
An international team of scientists has found one of the largest impact craters on Earth, buried a kilometre under the ice in Greenland. It's evidence of a catastrophic collision that could have happened at the same time as humans were spreading into NortClimate contrarian uncovers scientific error, upends major ocean warming study
Scientists with UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Princeton University recently walked back a claim made last month that oceans had been heating up dramatically faster than the international scientific community previously thought.
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Scientists with UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Princeton University recently walked back a claim made last month that oceans had been heating up dramatically faster than the international scientific community previously thought. Over the volcano
Climate change is shrinking the glacier atop B.C.'s Mount Meager and, says one expert, increasing the risk of a volcanic eruptionLlamas could save us all from the flu | Popular Science
Llamas may be large and fluffy, but their antibodies sure aren’t. And that could be a huge advantage when it comes to fighting human influenza virus.
Llamas may be large and fluffy, but their antibodies sure aren’t. And that could be a huge advantage when it comes to fighting human influenza virus.World First PET Aerogel Method for Turning Plastic Into Supermaterials Devised
National University of Singapore engineers are making a large contribution in the area of sustainability with their rPET-silica aerogels, lightweight materials with high thermal properties produced from plastic bottles.
National University of Singapore engineers are making a large contribution in the area of sustainability with their rPET-silica aerogels, lightweight materials with high thermal properties produced from plastic bottles.This Tiny Arachnid With a Black Bunny Head Is Totally Real, We Kid You Not
The natural world is a strange and wonderful place. But sometimes biologists come across something that is just... odd. Really, really odd.
The natural world is a strange and wonderful place. But sometimes biologists come across something that is just... odd. Really, really odd. New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN
We learn it at high school: Release two objects of different masses in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth's gravity. What we haven't learned, because it hasn't been directly measured in experiments, is whether antiSpinal-cord stimulation allows three paralyzed men to walk with assistance
“It’s an amazing feeling,” says David Mzee, whose left leg was paralyzed in 2010. Mzee has now regained some ability to walk thanks to a breakthrough in spinal-cord stimulation technology. “I can do a knee extension of my left leg... flex my hip and even
“It’s an amazing feeling,” says David Mzee, whose left leg was paralyzed in 2010. Mzee has now regained some ability to walk thanks to a breakthrough in spinal-cord stimulation technology. “I can do a knee extension of my left leg... flex my hip and even Improving climate models to account for plant behavior yields 'goodish' news
Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake iClever crows reveal 'window into the mind'
The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.
The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.The world's oldest shipwreck: 2,400 year old 'Odysseus' ship found at the bottom of the Black Sea
The 75ft shipwreck, found 1.3 miles under the surface of the Black Sea, could shed new light on the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus tying himself to a mast to avoid being tempted by sirens.
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The 75ft shipwreck, found 1.3 miles under the surface of the Black Sea, could shed new light on the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus tying himself to a mast to avoid being tempted by sirens. Yes, there's still hope for the planet, says climate guru Michael Mann
In the first issue of our new environmental newsletter, What on Earth?, we talk to climate scientist Michael Mann, explore the world of waste-free takeout and examine plant-based Lego blocks.The Hubble Space Telescope is broken
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem.
The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem. Discovery of new object supports theory of 'super-Earth' at edge of solar system
Researchers have discovered an object far beyond the orbit of Pluto they believe strengthens the case for a large planet at the outer reaches of our solar system. 
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