News Desk

Crustaceans Discovered ‘Pollinating’ Seaweeds in Scientific First
2nd August 2022 | sciencealert.com | Animal Life, Earth, Humans

The study, conducted by research groups based in France and Chile, is the first to document a seaweed species that depends on small marine crustaceans bespeckled in pollen-like spores to reproduce.

Some of the Most Conservative Corners of Regional Australia Support Legalising Cannabis
31st July 2022 | vice.com | Humans, Misc.

As conservative leaders continue to rail against its legalisation, sentiment among the broader Australian population is shifting—markedly. Now, even the most conservative pockets of regional Australia are warming to the idea.

‘Never seen anything like it’: Impeccably preserved Jurassic fish fossils found on UK farm
31st July 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

A farm in England was the unlikely source of a Jurassic jackpot: a treasure trove of 183 million-year-old fossils.

Scientists May Have Found a Key Shift Between The Brains of Humans And Neanderthals
31st July 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

Scientists experimenting on mice have found evidence that key parts of the modern human brain take more time to develop than those of our long extinct cousin, the Neanderthal.

After death, you’re aware that you’ve died, say scientists
29th July 2022 bigthink.com | Humans, Misc., Weird

Your subjective experience might not end the moment your heart stops, research on near-death experiences suggests.

Earth’s ancient water cycle was key to making continents, study shows
29th July 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Earth

A new Curtin University study has found that water was transported much deeper in the early Earth than previously thought, shedding new light on how the continents were originally formed.

How humans’ ability to digest milk evolved from famine and disease
29th July 2022 | nature.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

The dawn of dairy farming in Europe occurred thousands of years before most people evolved the ability to drink milk as adults without becoming ill. Now researchers think they know why…

The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs
29th July 2022 | wired.com | Humans, Misc.

As psychedelic therapies for mental health go mainstream, companies are recruiting chemists to create patentable versions of hallucinogens. Critics say it’s all a bad trip.

Why some of Colorado’s foremost shrooms advocates won’t be voting to legalize psilocybin
29th July 2022 | denverpost.com | Humans, Misc.

Come November, Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether to legalize psilocybin and psilocin, psychoactive compounds in magic mushrooms, as well as whether to establish healing centers where the public can access them in a therapeutic context.

Will time run backwards if the Universe collapses?
28th July 2022 bigthink.com | Humans, Space, Weird

In our Universe, time has been progressing forward, for all observers, ever since the inception of the hot Big Bang. There are a few “arrows of time” that coincide with this, including that the Universe has been expanding and, thermodynamically, that entropy has been increasing. If the Universe instead were to contract and collapse, could that lead to time running backwards?

Magnetism in Ancient Crystals Reveals When Earth’s Inner Core Emerged
28th July 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth

Researchers have been able to use an analysis of ancient rock crystals – and the magnetism records locked inside them – to trace back the history of Earth’s inner core across hundreds of millions of years.

Terrawatch: how mass extinctions can spur on evolution
28th July 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

Evidence from 252m years ago shows surviving animals bounced back stronger, fitter, faster and smarter.

DO ANIMALS DREAM? THIS EVIDENCE SAYS YES
26th July 2022 | futurity.org | Animal Life

Do animals dream? And what would proof of their dreams tell us about their consciousness? In a new episode of the University of Chicago’s “Big Brains” podcast, Peña-Guzmán talks about the science of animal consciousness.

Psilocybin microdosers display mental health improvement during 1 month period compared to non-microdosers
26th July 2022 | psypost.org | Humans, Misc.

New research published in Scientific Reports found that people who microdose psychedelics displayed greater improvements in mental health and mood over the span of 1 month compared to non-microdosers.

Ancient ‘Canyon Diablo’ Meteorite Reveals Mysterious Diamond Crystal Structure
26th July 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Earth, Weird

While studying diamonds inside an ancient meteorite, scientists have found a strange, interwoven microscopic structure that has never been seen before.

Ice age children frolicked in ‘giant sloth puddles’ 11,000 years ago, footprints reveal
26th July 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

More than 11,000 years ago, young children trekking with their families through what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico discovered the stuff of childhood dreams: muddy puddles made from the footprints of a giant ground sloth.

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