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There are two monumental problems with the world’s food system. Firstly, hundreds of millions of people can’t afford to buy enough nutritious food to stay healthy. Secondly, it is incredibly destructive. We are still razing rainforests to make way for…

November 13, 2024 4 min read The U.S. Must Lead the Global Fight against Superbugs Antimicrobial resistance could claim 39 million lives by 2050, yet the pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up. U.S. policy makers can help fix it…

Summary: Scientists analyzing decades-old data from NASA’s Voyager 2 mission have discovered that the spacecraft observed Uranus’s magnetic field in an unusual state that occurs less than 5% of the time. This finding, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that many…

A perforated pebble from the Nahal Ein Gev II archaeological site, which may be an ancient spindle whorl Laurent Davin A set of 12,000-year-old pierced pebbles excavated in northern Israel may be the oldest known hand-spinning whorls – a textile…

November 13, 2024 5 min read The Mathematical Mind Offers Neuroscientists a Master Class in Concentration Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks By Hanna Poikonen Malte Mueller/Getty Images Think of…

Summary: Scientists at Kennedy Krieger Institute have developed a promising new treatment for children with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a rare condition causing sudden paralysis. The therapy combines non-invasive spinal stimulation with movement training, showing significant improvements in patients’ ability…

Measuring the massive coral Inigo San Felix/National Geographic Society In the south-west Pacific, off the coast of one of the tropical Solomon Islands, a giant structure beneath the water’s surface has just been identified as the world’s largest known coral.…

CLIMATEWIRE | President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the department in charge of disaster recovery has been skeptical of climate change, declined to accept federal climate money and been criticized for her own handling of a natural catastrophe. Trump named…

In the world of quantum physics, another record appears to have just been broken. In a paper listed on the preprint site ArXiv, researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China claim to have observed atoms in a…

Summary: New research from Durham University introduces a theoretical model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life emerging in different universes based on their dark energy density. The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests our…