There is something so satisfying to surprise “Aha!” Moments: Those strange instances of information that they hit when you are struggling with a problem and reach a response suddenly, apparently without prior notice. But is all those moments satisfactory? Apparently not, it turns out that the flashes of inspiration that you feel when a solution…
NASA’s perseverance rover captured Deimos, the smallest of the two moons of Mars, shining in the sky prior to dawn on the red planet on March 1, 2025. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH) NASA’s perseverance rover captured this view prior to the dawn of the Mars de Mars hanging on a Martian view with little light. What…
Fighting fungi isn’t easy. Season two of the streaming series The Last of Us has arrived on Max (light spoilers ahead), bringing viewers back to a world where people combat zombies puppeteered by a mind-controlling fungus. Guns and flames help the characters survive onscreen. In the real world, fighting fungal infections is less action-packed, but…
The researchers at the University of Duke have developed a new promising analgesic that works through a completely different mechanism from opioids, which can offer millions of patients with chronic pain an alternative without the dangerous side effects of addiction and tolerance. The experimental medicine, called SBI-810, is directed to specific nerve receptors and spinal…
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our Friday Fascination field trips with an auditory journey to Brookhaven National Laboratory. This Long Island facility boasts seven Nobel Prize–winning discoveries and more than 70 years of groundbreaking research into energy and the environment. Earlier…
For more than a decade, floating cranes have been lowering a strange load of about 3000 meters under the Mediterranean Sea. The objects are seen from another world: large and bright spheres full of electronics. They are called, in fact, a machine detectors. Km3netDesigned to find one of the most mysterious fundamental particles. The machine…
There are no surprises in the scientific results summarized in these reports. Unfortunately, but also completely insecure, no politician in power, even more pretend to be listening to scientific warnings. Perhaps that is why scientific advice has become increasing (both on the network, so much. Fossil fluidist and military). Trump’s choice (formally made by the…
POT Voyager 1 Spacecraft, launched in 1977 and now traveling through interstellar space at approximately 35,000 mph, has successfully reactivated a set of backup propellants previously considered unusable for almost two decades. This milestone occurs just before the land -based antenna is responsible for sending commands to Voyager 1 disconnects for extensive updates. The effort…
This publication was executed for the first time in March 2022. A few days ago, a friend sent me a text message that a red flow blue had been seen a couple of miles where I live. I had to look for what a red flow blue was. It turns out that the Bluetail flanked…
Morphological summary and artistic reconstruction. (a) reconstruction of life; (b) the whole body, dorsal view; (c) Ventral view; (d) cross section through Mesotruck; (e) Appendix, side view; (f) Appendix, front view; (g) Podomer 5 from lateral and frontal views; (h) Appendix, ventral, extended view; (i) Appendix, ventral, retracted view. Abbreviations: BF, endite bifurcated tip; Br,…