[ad_1] The constant ebb and flow of hormones that guide the menstrual cycle don’t just affect reproductive anatomy. They also reshape the brain, and a study has given us insight into how this happens. Led by neuroscientists Elizabeth Rizor and Viktoriya Babenko of the University of California Santa Barbara, a team of researchers tracked 30 […]
[ad_1] “They took a dead man and cast him into the well, and then filled it up with stones.” So declares the 800-year-old Norse Sverris Saga, an accounting of the rise and reign of King Sverre Sigurdsson, who went on to rule Norway from 1184 until his death in 1202 CE. Now, thanks to the
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[ad_1] In the outer Solar System, far from the light and warmth of the Sun, things can get a little… hinky. There, clusters of rocks have been orbiting in weird loops that some astronomers have attributed to the presence of a large, unseen planet lurking on the Solar System’s fringes. So far, searches for the
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[ad_1] A ruined building in Kafr El Sheikh was where ancient Egyptians once stood, gazing at the stars above. More than 2,500 years ago, the building constituted the largest astronomical observatory known in Egypt in the 6th century BCE, part of what we now call the Temple of the Pharaohs in the town of Buto.
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[ad_1] The body is pretty good at repairing itself, but some parts of our anatomy struggle to bounce back after an injury. One such material is cartilage – the spongy yet firm connective tissue that keeps our bones from rubbing and jarring against each other. Over time, the translucent or ‘hyaline’ components of cartilage can
New Biomaterial Could Finally Repair Damaged Cartilage in Injured Joints : ScienceAlert Read More »
[ad_1] Every now and again, our planet ponies up a fossil so spectacular that almost all you can do is gape in wonder. Sometimes those fossils are the magnificent remains that once trod Earth’s surface with thunderous feet. Sometimes, they are mere motes, particles at which you may not look twice – but contain within
520-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Larva Found With Preserved Brain And Guts : ScienceAlert Read More »
[ad_1] Once upon a time, Earth was barren. Everything changed when, somehow, out of the chemistry available early in our planet’s history, something started squirming – processing available matter to survive, to breed, to thrive. What that something was, and when it first squirmed, have been burning questions that have puzzled humanity probably for as
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[ad_1] A little over a decade ago, a robotic rover on Mars finally uncovered an answer to a pressing question. It’s now clear that the red planet does, indeed, have organic material buried in the sediment of its ancient lakebeds. Since then, we’ve continued to find organic molecules on Mars distributed in a way that
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Underneath a temple in the ancient ruined city of Taposiris Magna on the Egyptian coast, archaeologists uncovered a vast, spectacular tunnel that experts are referring to as a “geometric miracle”. During ongoing excavations and exploration of the temple, Kathleen Martinez of the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and colleagues uncovered the structure
