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Scientists Unearth 247-Million-Year-Old ‘Wonder’ Fossil Unlike Anything Seen Before  SciTechDaily FEATHERS BEFORE DINOSAURS? ANCIENT REPTILE FOSSIL REDEFINES INTEGUMENT EVOLUTION  Hiru News A Reptile’s Baffling Backfin And The Math Of Dashing Dinos | Science Friday  WNYC Studios | Podcasts This Reptile Sported Strange, Feather-Shaped Structures Around 247 Million Years Ago  Discover Magazine Something like feathers grew on a 247-million-year-old reptile  San Juan Daily Star Source link

A groundbreaking global study, recently published in Nature, reveals surprising findings about the state of ancient carbon storage and its impact on the atmosphere. For decades, scientists have assumed that carbon trapped deep in soils and rocks, often for thousands or even millions of years, was securely contained, unaffected by the forces of nature and human activity. However, a new …

RFK Jr. pulls funding for mRNA vaccines as scientists pursue breakthrough treatments for HIV, cancer, the flu and more  yahoo.com On Vaccines, Kennedy Has Broken Sharply With the Mainstream  The New York Times Friday briefing: What will US funding cuts on mRNA vaccines mean for the health of the world?  The Guardian Federal mRNA funding cut is ‘most dangerous public health decision’ ever, …

In a major new finding almost a decade in the making, researchers at Harvard Medical School say they’ve found a key that may unlock many of the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease and brain aging — the humble metal lithium. Lithium is best known to medicine as a mood stabilizer given to people who have bipolar disorder and depression. It was …

The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, is facing growing criticism from scientists who say their “worst fears” were realized when Wright revealed that the Trump administration would “update” the US’s premier climate crisis reports. Wright, a former oil and gas executive, told CNN’s Kaitlin Collins earlier this week that the administration was reviewing national climate assessment reports published by past …

Scientists have a fairly good idea of what Mars’ surface looks like. But exactly what that surface is made up of is more of a mystery.  Now, scientists believe they have discovered an entirely new mineral on Mars from an unusual layer of iron sulfate with a distinct spectral signature. In a Nature Communications paper published on August 5, astrobiologists …

About 5 billion light-years away from where you’re sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed to peer through the fabric of warped space-time — and it appears to hold a mass equivalent to that of 36 billion suns. Yes, billion. “This is …

Scientists have stumbled upon four new species of tarantulas whose males have such outrageously long genitals that they had to invent an entirely new genus to classify them: Satyrex, named after the mythological satyr—half-man, half-goat, all libido—and the Latin word for king, rex. The males of the newfound species boast palps (spider sperm-delivery appendages) that stretch up to four times …

To find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, we need to understand how and where it gets started, and new research suggests we might be looking in the wrong place. Scientists from the US and Germany have linked genetic risk for Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases to the blood-brain barrier – the blood vessels and immune cells that surround and protect …

In a breakthrough that reimagines the way the gut and brain communicate, researchers have uncovered what they call a “neurobiotic sense,” a newly identified system that lets the brain respond in real time to signals from microbes living in our gut. The new research, led by Duke University School of Medicine neuroscientists Diego Bohórquez, PhD, and M. Maya Kaelberer, PhD, …