Category: 7. SciTech
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Why olive wastewater could soon help reshape your health
Olive oil is well known for its health benefits. The star of the Mediterranean diet, it is rich in good fats and beneficial bioactive compounds with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and is linked to improved cardiovascular and metabolic health. The process of making olive oil… Continue Reading
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Drone footage reveals orcas hunting unexpected prey off Chile for first time
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A pod of orcas has been spotted for the first time feeding on dolphins off
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Scientists finally identify cannibalised remains from doomed 1845 British Arctic expedition
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter The cannibalised skeletal remains of a member of the doomed 1845 British… Continue Reading
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2024’s Funniest Wildlife Photos Are Here. It’s Comedy Break Time. : ScienceAlert
The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards announced the finalists in its 2024 photography contest on Thursday. The 40 shortlisted photos, which feature a variety of animals striking amusing poses in the wild and spotlight photographers’ skills and ingenuity, were chosen out of 9,000 entries from 98… Continue Reading
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This Manhattan skyscraper is being constructed of concrete that’s like nothing else in the world
C-Crete Technologies has become the first company to pour granite-based concrete at a construction site. The new concrete is completely devoid of Portland cement and CO2 emissions, marking a groundbreaking achievement for creating sustainable building materials. The new concrete was… Continue Reading
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These fish use their ‘legs’ for more than walking — Harvard Gazette
Promising new research focusing on the sea robin, an unpromising-looking fish that scuttles around the ocean floor on “legs,” may lead to new insights in trait development, including in humans. “Sea robins are an example of a species with a very unusual, very novel trait,” said
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An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person
In 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester in England achieved a breakthrough when they isolated graphene for the first time. A flat form of carbon made up of a single layer of atoms, graphene is the thinnest known material—and one of the strongest. Hailed as… Continue Reading
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Watch: Giant new Milky Way map changes view of galaxy ‘forever’ | News
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way, containing more than 1.5 billion objects, including newborn stars. Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (Vista) telescope, the scientists monitored the central… Continue Reading
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Why do birds migrate? Scientists have a few major theories.
At one point in the not-too-distant past, winter’s lack of birds completely flummoxed some of history’s greatest thinkers. Just a few hundred years ago philosophers posited that birds buried themselves in swamps, flew to the moon, or fully transformed into other animals during the cold… Continue Reading
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‘Weird’ walking fish could shed light on how humans evolved to stand upright
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A “weird” species of “walking” fish is helping shed light on how… Continue Reading