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• Hints of unknown elementary particle explained using Swedish theory

  12-05-2016 14:29
  
  Particle physicists around the world are currently on the edge of their seats awaiting information about the traces of a brand new particle that were found during the latest run of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator at CERN. One of these physicists is Christoffer Petersson at Chalmers University of Technology. In an article recently published in the journal, Physical Review Letters, he explains how he predicted the particle traces back in 2013.
  
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• Tragic piece of WWII history discovered on historic submarine

  11-08-2026 18:01 via popsci.com
  
  The World War II submarine USS Silversides is currently receiving its first dry dock preservation work in over 50 years. The thorough review of the famed piece of World War II naval history is often a largely routine effort, but workers recently discovered something entirely unexpected while inspecting the sub: a flood valve stamped with the word “Trigger” alongside the serial number L-792-228.The component itself is mundane, but its context is remarkable. According to historians, th
  
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• 300-year-old sturgeon are swimming around the Great Lakes

  11-08-2026 17:08 via popsci.com
  
  The six-foot long, 100-pound, and thunderously loud lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) skulking around the Great Lakes may live upwards of 200 to 300 years. A new study published in the Journal of Fish Biology from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Michigan State University puts them among North America’s oldest freshwater fish and brings their lifespan up to one of the poster fish for longevity, the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus).“Scientists have long rec
  
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• Do rage workouts really help to blow off steam?

  11-08-2026 14:53 via popsci.com
  
  Take a deep breath and count to ten. That’s the classic advice for dealing with a situation that makes you angry. But recently, some people have been resorting to a different tactic: rage workouts. Activities include slamming tires with a sledgehammer and pummeling a punching bag with your fists. Channeling your rage into an activity that helps you get fit seems like a win-win. But “rage workouts are not supported by science,” says Dr. Brad Bushman, a professor of communic
  
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• Never-Before-Seen Vortices Are Swirling Across the Sun

  11-08-2026 13:38 via scitechdaily.com
  The world’s largest solar telescope and advanced computer simulations revealed vortices that are reshaping our understanding of the Sun. Across the Sun’s visible surface, hot plasma is constantly rising, cooling, and sinking. At the edges of these churning regions, researchers have now resolved tiny swirling structures that may help explain how the Sun twists, stores, [...]
  
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• Something May Be Flowing Beneath Pluto’s Giant Heart-Shaped Glacier

  11-08-2026 13:03 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers used New Horizons images to identify evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed from beneath Pluto’s famous heart-shaped glacier. Dark markings across part of Pluto’s enormous heart-shaped glacier may record something unexpected beneath its frozen surface: liquid nitrogen moving upward and briefly flowing across the ice. Using observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, researchers [...]
  
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• Don’t Miss: Europe Is About To Go Dark in a Spectacular Total Solar Eclipse

  11-08-2026 12:28 via scitechdaily.com
  A rare total solar eclipse will sweep across parts of Europe on August 12, 2026, briefly turning daylight into darkness as the Moon completely covers the Sun. Europe is about to experience a total solar eclipse, and people around the world will be able to watch it live. The European Space Agency (ESA) will begin [...]
  
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• Hermit crab poop spreads a parasitic plant’s seeds

  11-08-2026 12:00 via popsci.com
  
  Hikers exploring the coastal forest on a tropical island near Okinawa, Japan, would be forgiven for thinking that Balanophora fungosa is a simple mushroom. They have dark caps and grow along the forest floor, but these are no harmless fungi—they’re parasitic plants that get their nutrients from the roots of nearby plants. Each yeasty-smelling B. fungosa produces up to one million tiny seeds covered in a dry fruit, but scientists had no idea how these seeds were dispersed. &ldquo
  
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• Ancient South American families built massive waterways by themselves

  11-08-2026 11:00 via popsci.com
  
  The La Mojana field systems in Colombia’s wetlands are some of the largest examples of monumental ancient engineering in South America. Encompassing an area about as large as Grand Canyon National Park, the network of canals and raised farming ridges are so vast that they’re even visible from airplanes. Archaeologists and historians have long assumed such complex and intricate endeavors must have required oversight from rigidly structured authorities,but new evidence suggests otherwi
  
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• Industrial Chicken Farming Is Supercharging the Spread of a Dangerous Foodborne Bacterium

  11-08-2026 01:33 via scitechdaily.com
  The global expansion of chicken farming has created conditions that allow Campylobacter to spread, mix and adapt more readily. Commercial poultry farms now hold billions of chickens, creating a vast habitat where bacteria can move, mix and adapt. An analysis from the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research at the University of Oxford found that [...]
  
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• Honeybee Queens May Pass Toxic Chemicals to the Next Generation

  11-08-2026 00:58 via scitechdaily.com
  Study reveals how contamination can increase within colonies. Inside a honeybee colony, worker bees act as living filters. They intercept much of the pesticide contamination entering the hive, helping shield the queen and the developing young she produces. But when exposure continues and that protective system begins to fail, the queen may redirect the chemical [...]
  
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• This Common Amino Acid May Help the Body Fight Cancer and Viruses

  11-08-2026 00:23 via scitechdaily.com
  A shortage of one common nutrient could help cancer cells and viruses hide from the immune system. Researchers at Rockefeller University found that a shortage of arginine, an amino acid obtained from food and produced by the body, can interrupt the cellular machinery needed to make MHC-I proteins. These proteins act as a surveillance system, [...]
  
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• The most approachable moto-style e-bike I’ve ridden

  11-08-2026 00:00 via popsci.com
  
  There’s a point when riding in the rain when you simply surrender. Between the downpour, the dirty road spray, and the water streaking across your glasses, being dry becomes a distant memory. Caught in a sudden East Coast thunderstorm, I found myself imagining how much more at home the Super73-MZFT would feel in its natural habitat: Southern California, under blue skies, with the sun out and nowhere urgent to be. Before the rain rolled in, however, the only thing I was showered with was &l
  
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• Jackie the bald eagle dead at 14

  10-08-2026 22:23 via popsci.com
  
  Jackie, a bald eagle with a devoted internet following, died early in the morning on August 10 in Ojai, California, while in the care of the Ojai Raptor Center. She was 14 years old. The Ojai Raptor Center announced her death and it was shared by Friends of Big Bear Valley (FOBBV), the nonprofit who monitors the eagles of Big Bear Valley.“Over the past several days, her condition continued to deteriorate despite intensive treatment and the combined efforts of our veterinary team and c
  
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• How Yellowstone builds boardwalks beside piping hot thermal pools

  10-08-2026 22:12 via popsci.com
  
  The famed hydrothermal vents and geysers found across Yellowstone National Park are impressive, but best admired at a distance. All that bubbly water isn’t carbonation, after all. A hot spring regularly reaches boiling temperatures, and their eruptions can launch scalding plumes dozens of feet into the air.Despite these dangers, Yellowstone oversees approximately 15 miles of walkways around its famous natural attractions. But how are these routes planned, constructed, and maintained to kee
  
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• Schizophrenia’s Brain Damage May Start in One Key Region

  10-08-2026 21:25 via scitechdaily.com
  Schizophrenia may leave a distinctive biological footprint across the brain’s communication network. Using specialized PET imaging, researchers have mapped where synaptic connections are most reduced in people with schizophrenia and identified a possible region from which the damage begins to spread. The study, which involved a Rutgers professor, was published in Molecular Psychiatry. Synapses are [...]
  
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• A Simple Treatment Could Save Extremely Premature Babies From Blindness

  10-08-2026 20:50 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers found that dexamethasone eye drops may reduce the risk that retinopathy of prematurity advances to the treatment stage. For babies born extremely early, abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina can threaten their sight before they leave the hospital. Researchers in Sweden have now completed the world’s first randomized clinical trial testing whether cortisone [...]
  
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• Low-Protein “Longevity Diet” Linked to Fat Loss, Muscle Preservation, and Healthy Aging

  10-08-2026 20:15 via scitechdaily.com
  A new study suggests the secret to healthier aging may not be eating less but eating the right balance of protein and amino acids. Could healthier aging depend less on cutting calories and more on getting the right balance of protein and amino acids? A new USC study, published in Cell Metabolism, suggests that possibility. [...]
  
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• The cute, tiny Texas kangaroo rat needs help

  10-08-2026 20:13 via popsci.com
  
  Government organizations and landowners across Texas are teaming up to help a tiny rodent that is at risk of extinction. Meet the Lone Star State’s own kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elator).There are 23 species of kangaroo rat in North America, and the Texas kangaroo rat calls the state’s west-central Rolling Plains region home. While the small nocturnal creature looks nothing like a kangaroo, it likes to hop on its hind legs, hence the name. Texas kangaroo rats weigh up to 4.5 ounces and
  
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• New lizard named after colorful ‘House of the Dragon’ character

  10-08-2026 18:50 via popsci.com
  
  Dragon enthusiasts may have to wait upwards of two years for the platinum-haired Targaryens and their fire-breathing pets on House of the Dragon to return, but real reptile enthusiasts have a new real-life lizard to get excited about. Recently discovered in the high mountain forests of western Thailand, Acanthosaura syrax is named after Syrax, aka Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen’s dragon on the HBO show. The new dragon-inspired lizard is described in a study recently published in the journal ZooK
  
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• Ohio’s Cardboard Boat Museum is a tribute to improbable homemade vessels

  10-08-2026 17:45 via popsci.com
  
  The Pure Oil Gas Station just southeast of Cincinnati, Ohio, can’t top off the tank for roadtrippers—but it does offer something else that’s at least worth a pitstop. The American Cardboard Boat Museum is a nearly 20-year-old local institution dedicated to documenting decades’ of experimental vessels built from the ubiquitous material.“Over the last 19 years, we probably have over 40 boats or parts of boats displayed in the museum,” co-founder Angie Jetter tel
  
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• Discovery of Three Forgotten Kings Rewrites Assyria’s Royal History

  10-08-2026 17:21 via scitechdaily.com
  Three missing rulers reveal that Assyria’s official royal chronology may have concealed a more contested political history. For nearly a century, historians have treated the Assyrian King List (AKL) as the standard chronology of Assyria’s rulers, particularly during the empire’s later history. But evidence drawn from inscriptions, tablets, and damaged monuments suggests that this official [...]
  
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• Dogs can tell if you’re angry, scared, or sad

  10-08-2026 17:00 via popsci.com
  
  Spend any time with a dog, and it’s clear many have a remarkable ability to understand how we’re feeling. But while there are endless anecdotes of empathetic dogs coming to comfort us when we’re sad and barking happily when we’re feeling good, actual hard scientific evidence of the extent to which dogs really understand human emotion is surprisingly thin on the ground. This is because ultimately, we can never know what it’s like to be a dog—and sadly, we can&r
  
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• How Prehistoric Poop Changed Earth’s Ecosystems Forever

  10-08-2026 16:46 via scitechdaily.com
  Ancient animal waste may have helped fuel the development and diversification of early marine ecosystems. Tiny pellets of fossilized waste may preserve evidence of a major transformation in early animal life. An international study led by Flinders University proposes that excrement helped reshape ancient oceans during one of evolution’s most important turning points. The researchers [...]
  
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• This Fossil Upends a Decades-Old Debate About Snake Evolution

  10-08-2026 16:11 via scitechdaily.com
  Exceptionally preserved Brazilian fossil reveals early snakes explored several habitats. More than 4,000 snake species live today, yet the evolutionary path that produced their elongated, limbless bodies remains difficult to reconstruct. Snakes are highly modified lizards, but their limited fossil record has left one of evolutionary biology’s central questions unresolved. Scientists have long debated whether [...]
  
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• New ‘desert’ penguin chick arrives in Seattle

  10-08-2026 15:00 via popsci.com
  
  Cold, snow, and lots of ice: these are the ingredients that come to mind when thinking about penguins. But not all penguins are made the same. Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) enjoy Peru and Chile’s dry and hot shorelines. Recently, one of these seaside desert penguins hatched into this world far from its natural home. The chick was born at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington, in association with a breeding program called the Humboldt Penguin Species Survival Plan. The in
  
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• Breast Cancer May Hijack Nerves To Grow and Resist Treatment

  10-08-2026 13:52 via scitechdaily.com
  Triple-negative breast tumors may hijack immune cells to attract nerves that help the cancer grow. Nerves growing through a tumor may help an aggressive breast cancer survive, expand, and resist treatment. University of Oklahoma researchers have identified how triple-negative breast cancer may recruit those nerves by turning the body’s own immune cells into messengers. Networks [...]
  
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• Any Level of Physical Activity May Slow Cognitive Decline, Study Suggests

  10-08-2026 13:17 via scitechdaily.com
  Cardiovascular health in midlife may influence mental function later in life. A person’s activity level and blood sugar in middle age may help shape how quickly thinking skills decline decades later. Research from UT Health San Antonio, the academic health center of The University of Texas at San Antonio, found that physical activity and better [...]
  
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• A Blood Test Years Before Cancer May Reveal a Hidden Warning Sign

  10-08-2026 12:42 via scitechdaily.com
  A blood test taken years before cancer appears may hold a warning sign for men’s long-term health. A large international study found that men with very low testosterone were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer and more likely to die from it later in life. The link was broad, but it came with an [...]
  
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• Elon Musk To Build The Largest Building In The World – 100 Million Square Feet

  10-08-2026 02:29 via technocracy.news
  
  A building spanning 2,315 acres is almost 4 square miles in size. It dwarfs any building on earth and is intended to provide end-to-end chip manufacturing starting with design, fab, quality control, and packaging. And arch-Technocrat Musk says he needs all this to build his own cars, robots, data centers, and spaceships. Don’t forget that Musk’s grandfather was the head of the Technocracy movement in Canada during the 30s and 40s. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.Elon Musk is about
  
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