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Alcohol Doesn’t Make People Seem More Attractive, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Being under alcohol’s influence doesn’t make others appear more attractive, new research reports, but it can give people the confidence to initiate contact with someone they find attractive. While it isn’t the first time the phenomenon colloquially referred to as ‘beer goggles’ has been put to the test, the scientists behind the study claim their…
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Can Cats Increase the Odds of Developing Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia can produce persistent delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking. The precise cause is unknown but seems to involve a combination of genetics and environmental risk factors. One environmental factor may be an infectious agent, such as the common parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis. Since cats can transmit Toxoplasma to humans, scientists have been investigating…
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Dinosaurs May Be the Reason Why Humans Have Low Lifespans
About 225 million years ago, at the very dawn of mammalian existence, the creatures that humans and all other extant mammals would descend from were diminutive creatures about the size of a shrew. This handicap on size placed them squarely on the dinner plate of dinosaurs, and many other larger creatures that lived on our…
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Why These 6 Items Are Not Allowed in Space
At one time, traveling to space seemed impossible. But now, hundreds of people have left Earth’s atmosphere and drifted in outer space. While there is still much to explore, thanks to researchers and astronauts, some cosmic mysteries have been uncovered. For example, we know that one of the many differences between Earth and outer space…
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Nine Dazzling Celestial Events to Watch in 2024 | Science
Solar eclipse viewers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on October 14, 2023 Kirk Sides / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images Last year, observers across the U.S. witnessed an array of spectacular celestial events, including a beautiful “ring of fire” eclipse, dazzling meteor showers and a partial lunar eclipse. The newly discovered Comet Nishimura even made…
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The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat
For Gastón Paladini, pork is a family affair. In 1923, his great-grandfather Don Juan Paladini moved from Italy to Santa Fe, Argentina, where he started putting a South American twist on classic Italian sausage recipes. Eventually, Don Juan’s company became one of Argentina’s largest meat producers. It still bears the family name: Paladini. But in…
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Giraffes Are Notoriously Hard to Track, But New Technology Is Helping Scientists Protect the Beloved Species | Science
By Alex Fox Photographs by Marcus Westberg They have one of the most instantly recognizable silhouettes on the planet. “They walk so gracefully that it looks like they are floating across the savanna,” says Michael Brown, an ecologist with the Namibia-based Giraffe Conservation Foundation, or GCF. But our familiarity with these… Continue Reading News Source:…
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Here’s Why Multitasking Gets Trickier And Even Dangerous as We Age : ScienceAlert
We’re all time-poor, so multi-tasking is seen as a necessity of modern living. We answer work emails while watching TV, make shopping lists in meetings and listen to podcasts when doing the dishes. We attempt to split our attention countless times a day when juggling both mundane and important tasks. But doing two things at…
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Scientists Translated Spiderwebs Into Music, And It’s Absoutely Stunning : ScienceAlert
Spiders rely significantly on touch to sense the world around them. Their bodies and legs are covered in tiny hairs and slits that can distinguish between different kinds of vibrations. Any prey blundering into a web makes a very different vibrational clamor from another spider coming a-wooing, or the stirring of a breeze, for example.…
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Scientists capture ultra-rare half male, half female bird on camera
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Scientists have captured on video an extremely rare bird with male colours on one half of its body and female plumage on the other half, shedding more light…