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Early Earth was a barren wasteland incapable of supporting life until a big protoplanet crash carried in the necessary ingredients, a new study suggests. That collision of the proto-Earth and a Mars-size body — nicknamed Theia — has been theorized for decades, especially in discussions of how our moon may have formed from the resulting pieces of the crash. Now, …

A persistent claim circulated online that woodpeckers avoid concussions from pecking because their long tongues wrap around their skulls, protecting their brains.  It’s true that some scientists in the past have believed the woodpecker’s long tongue provides some sort of inbuilt protection against brain damage due to frequent and impactful pecking.  However, peer-reviewed research in 2022 challenged this notion, using …

You have full access to this article via your institution. Italian street artist Harry Greb’s mural in front of Rome’s health ministry celebrating the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in 2021.Credit: Marilla Sicilia/Archivio Marilla Sicilia/Mondadori Portfolio/Getty A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic1 should be feted to the skies. Instead, US health …

These fascinating new studies show ADHD extends into unexpected areas  PsyPost Source link

Despite the fact that much of the current research in paleontology focuses on trying to find traces of organic remains in fossils, dinosaur DNA has unfortunately never been recovered. A lot of what we know about dinosaurs comes from preserved bones and teeth that are dug out of the ground. These hard tissues alone, however, are limited in the information …

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. One awful spring day in 2025, Luís Amaral sat at his desk at Northwestern University after he had just finished “probably the most depressing project I’ve been involved with.” He had reason to be disheartened. His new study reveals an uncomfortable truth: scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few bad apples. It is …

Although many studies on air-cleaning technologies conclude that they prevent the indoor spread of respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, only a small fraction examine whether they reduce human infections or identify potential harmful emissions, finds a scoping review published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.  Researchers from the University of Colorado (UC) School of Medicine and the National …

NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes and forms to multiple, difficult-to-reach orbits. The firm-fixed-price awards comprise nine studies with a maximum total value of approximately $1.4 million. The awardees are: Arrow Science and Technology LLC, Webster, Texas Blue Origin LLC, Merritt Island, Florida Firefly Aerospace Inc., …

More people under the age of 50 are getting colon cancer — but it’s unclear why. A doctor who researches the link between the disease and our gut microbes has a theory. “I don’t want to give the message that microbes are the entire thing. But we know that there are significant correlations between how much we have of various …