Новости за 05.11.2024

Pandora Dewan, Newsweek

In a world first that challenges what we thought we knew about biology, scientists have successfully engineered animal cells that can photosynthesize. The...

Eric Berger, Ars Technica

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy lift rocket nearly a decade ago, it looked like a fairly conventional booster....

Lauren Leffer, Popular Science

We don't know how or why it happened-perhaps a particularly deadly, Homo sapien-specific virus. Or maybe it was a more drawn-out decline brought on by...

David Nield, Sci Alert

Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins...

McShea & Babcock, Aeon

Why do rocks fall? Before Isaac Newton introduced his revolutionary law of gravity in 1687, many natural scientists and philosophers thought that rocks fell because...

Damond Benningfield, EOS

Earth's future is bleak. At best, our planet will become a burned-out cinder as the Sun expands at the end of its life. At worst, it will be engulfed by the Sun,...

Jessica Bradley, Sci Foc

One of the biggest factors that determines where fat is stored in your body is your sex. Men tend to store fat around their abdomen, whereas women are more likely to...

Shanna B. Tiayon, Greater Good

I never thought about this question before the 2024 Olympic Games. I was so impressed by track-and-field sprinter Noah Lyles, who appeared to be his own...

Trisha Greenhalgh, iai

We need to know whether drugs and other healthcare treatments work. The field of evidence-based medicine developed important tools, like randomised controlled trials,...

Sujata Gupta, Science News

The notion of a midlife crisis is dead. Or maybe it was always bunk. Now some scientists want a postmortem for the theory.

The FTA process which started almost 18 years ago with successive National and Labour governments all contributing to building the foundation. There is no doubt that the Dame Lisa Carrington speed and urgency shown by PM Luxon, with his business-like ...

Tom Brady will not be punished by the NFL after criticizing officials on Sunday during Fox's broadcast of a game between the Green Bay Packers and Det

American Chemical Society

Despite ongoing efforts to curb CO2 emissions with electric and hybrid vehicles, other forms of transportation remain significant contributors of...

Mike Irvin has resigned as Kenwood’s boys basketball coach.

According to Chicago Public Schools, which confirmed the resignation Monday, Irvin currently is ineligible for rehire with CPS. Kenwood assistant principal Joe Mason will take over as interim coach for this season, with the school planning to conduct a search for a new coach next year.

“While this decision allowed me to spend more time with family, it does not lessen my passion and dedication to developing and training in youth sports across Chicago,” Irvin said. Читать дальше...

Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State University

Is the floating freshwater fern commonly called Carolina azolla the potential answer to global food insecurity or a possible threat to humanity? On the...

Gregory Barber, Anthropocene

Last summer, the parish priests and pastors in Geretsried, Germany—Catholic and Protestant—joined a crowd of people in a clearing in the forested hills...

Phys.org

Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the age of dinosaurs, temperate forests and lakes hosted a lively ecosystem in what is now northeast China. Diverse...

MIT

Silicon transistors, which are used to amplify and switch signals, are a critical component in most electronic devices, from smartphones to automobiles. But silicon semiconductor...

The International Boxing Association is involved in a brawl with the International Olympic Committee.

Medical Xpress

Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds.

University of Pennsylvania

The unique properties of baseball's famed "magic" mud have never been scientifically quantified — until now.

Fletcher Loyer scored 21 points to lead five players in double figures as No. 14 Purdue beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 90-73

Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, is understood to want to cling on to his home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, Berkshire, despite being cut off by his brother, King Charles

© Provided by Xinhua Workers attend a skills training course at a learning center of Foxconn in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, Oct. 12, 2024. (Xinhua/Li Jianan)