Science is a way of thinking
May 28, 2023
The prime minister is not attending an emergency COBRA meeting on the heatwave national emergency as he prepares for his farewell do at Chequers, the country estate which has an indoor swimming pool and hundreds of acres of grounds. Boris Johnson is holding his farewell party at the prime minister’s country estate this weekend, a
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A cat named Rowdy has finally been caught after escaping from a US airport for three weeks. The four-year-old pet has been hiding from airport workers, airline employees and animal experts at Boston’s Logan International Airport since escaping from its cage to chase some birds. “We’ll never know if it was due to fatigue or
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The discovery should help astronomers better understand the extreme conditions at the center of our galaxy and what can survive there. Astronomers have discovered a star that orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy every four years. That’s the shortest orbit ever observed around a supermassive black hole. The newly discovered
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Neuroscientists think they have discovered the mechanism behind the formation of fear memories in the amygdala — the emotional hub of the brain The research was conducted by a team of neuroscientists from Tulane and Tufts universities. Experiencing a frightening event is likely something you’ll never forget. But why does it stay with you when
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Meraxes gigas — a new species of dinosaur has been discovered with disproportionally short arms just like T. rex called the Meraxes gigas. Tyrannosaurs (like the infamous T. rex) is not the only group of gigantic carnivorous dinosaur with tiny arms. In fact, paleontologists have just discovered a new species of dinosaur with disproportionally short arms just like T. rex called the Meraxes
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The first Pompeiian human genome has been sequenced. Research that was recently published in Scientific Reports presents the first human genome that has been successfully sequenced from a person who passed away in Pompeii, Italy, after Mount Vesuvius’ explosion in the year 79 CE. Only little segments of mitochondrial DNA from Pompeiian human and animal remains have been
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In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists from the Queen Mary University of London argue that insects most likely have central nervous control of nociception (detection of painful stimuli); such control is consistent with the existence of pain experience, with implications for insect farming, conservation and their treatment in the laboratory.
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Young, orphaned elephants appear to benefit, physically and measurably, from the “support” of other young elephants. This insight comes from a study that analysed stress hormones in elephants that had lost their mothers. The aim was to work out the physical impact of that loss over a long period. Elephants with more similarly aged ‘friends’
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The galaxy started spinning just 500 million years after the Big Bang There is a galaxy spinning like a record in the early universe — far earlier than any others have been seen twirling around. Astronomers have spotted signs of rotation in the galaxy MACS1149-JD1, JD1 for short, which sits so far away that
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Testing bottlenecks and vaccine rollout problems have let the monkeypox virus spread unchecked, echoing the mistakes of the U.S. COVID response Waits in long lines. A shortage of testing. People scrambling to refresh websites for vaccine appointments. But this time, it’s not COVID—it’s monkeypox. The number of confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. had reached 1,053
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