Every Life Form on Earth Uses The Same Chemical For Energy. This Could Explain Why. : ScienceAlert
All life as we know it uses the exact same energy-carrying molecule as a kind of ‘universal cellular fuel’. Now, ancient chemistry may explain how that all-important molecule ended up being ATP (adenosine triphosphate) a new study reports. ATP is an organic molecule, charged up by photosynthesis or by cellularContinue Reading
The Pandemic Really Did Change Us on a Personal Level, And It Wasn’t For The Better : ScienceAlert
The global coronavirus pandemic affected just about everyone across the globe in ways that we’re still trying to understand. It appears that one of the effects is that many of us became moodier along the way, often to the point of becoming more neurotic and less agreeable. According to aContinue Reading
Discovery of a New Rare Blood Type Could Save The Lives of Future Newborns : ScienceAlert
The devastating loss of a pair of newborns has provided critical insights into a rare set of blood types spotted for the first time in humans 40 years ago. By unravelling the molecular identity of the relatively new blood type known as the Er system, a new study could hopefullyContinue Reading
Discovering Even Friendly Aliens Could Have Some Real Risks For Humanity : ScienceAlert
Science fiction is the realm where people traditionally wrestle with the idea of contact with an ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence). But now, those discussions are migrating from science fiction into more serious realms. Academics are going back and forth, one paper at a time, concerning the response and geopolitical fallout fromContinue Reading
Earth’s Moon Could Have Taken Just Hours to Form From a Shattered Mess : ScienceAlert
The Moon could have formed immediately after a cataclysmic impact that tore off a chunk of Earth and hurled it into space, a new study has suggested. Since the mid-1970s, astronomers have thought that the Moon could have been made by a collision between Earth and an ancient Mars-size protoplanetContinue Reading
New Approach to Machine Learning Could Make Chaos More Predictable : ScienceAlert
The vast number-crunching capabilities of artificial intelligence systems mean we can better predict the future of chaotic systems based on fewer and fewer patterns of the past – and a new algorithm is adding even more accuracy to the process. Developed through next-gen reservoir computing techniques, which take a moreContinue Reading
Unique Remains of What Could Be The World’s Largest Bird Found in Australia : ScienceAlert
A pair of legs belonging to what could be the largest bird species that ever stalked our planet have been unearthed from an outback fossil site in central Australia. Excitingly, more remains could still be laying nearby, waiting to be dug free. Described by one paleontologist as an “extreme evolutionaryContinue Reading
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Produced Global Tsunamis Up to 2.8 Miles High
The dinosaur-killing asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago also triggered a jumbo-size tsunami with mile-high waves in the Gulf of Mexico whose waters traveled halfway around the world, a new study finds. Researchers discovered evidence of this monumental tsunami after analyzing cores from more than 100 sitesContinue Reading
How Shifting Politics Re-energized the Combat In opposition to Poverty
WASHINGTON — 1 / 4-century in the past, a Democratic president celebrated “the tip of welfare as we all know it,” difficult the poor to train “independence” and espousing balanced budgets and smaller authorities. The Democratic Celebration capped a march in the wrong way this week. Its first main legislative act underneathContinue Reading
Cuomo Discovers #MeToo Means #HimToo
WASHINGTON — First, he married a Kennedy. Then he behaved like one. Like his idol Bill Clinton — he still cherishes the cigar humidor Clinton gave him — Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not seem to realize times had changed. Back in 1998, when the story broke about the affair with Monica Lewinsky, Clinton aidesContinue Reading
Reconstruction of The First Mammal’s Genome Suggests It Had 38 Chromosomes : ScienceAlert
Scientists don’t know much about what the very first mammal looked like, but they do know that it lived around 180-250 million years ago and that every mammal on Earth – from blue whales to platypuses – is descended from it. But thanks to new research, we now know whatContinue Reading
Watch A Great White Become an Orca’s Lunch in World-First Footage : ScienceAlert
Great white sharks have been strangely absent off the coast of South Africa in recent years, with suspicions for their decline in numbers falling onto that other most notorious oceanic predator, the orca. Now there’s footage of an actual hunt in action. Two new observations, one from a helicopter andContinue Reading
The Mysterious Phenomenon of Déjà Vu Is Finally Closer to Being Explained : ScienceAlert
Have you ever had that weird feeling that you’ve experienced the same exact situation before, even though that’s impossible? Sometimes it can even seem like you’re reliving something that already happened. This phenomenon, known as déjà vu, has puzzled philosophers, neurologists, and writers for a very long time. Starting inContinue Reading
La Niña’s Shock Return Suggests Important Details Are Missing in Climate Models : ScienceAlert
As the world braces for a third consecutive year of exceptional La Niña conditions, a new study reveals how our climate models might have missed this disastrous ‘triple-dip’ effect. It’s the first time in a century that La Niña has stuck around for so long, and her wrath is beingContinue Reading
Scientists Win Physics Nobel Prize For Proving Einstein Wrong : ScienceAlert
The 2022 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for pioneering experiments in quantum mechanics, the theory covering the micro-world of atoms and particles. Alain Aspect from Université Paris-Saclay in France, John Clauser from J.F. Clauser & Associates in the US, and Anton Zeilinger fromContinue Reading