News Desk

Fentanyl Vaccine Breakthrough – Potential “Game Changer” for Opioid Epidemic
15th November 2022 scitechdaily.com | Humans, Misc.

A new vaccine has been developed that targets the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl that could block its ability to enter the brain, thus eliminating the drug’s “high.

Wild chimpanzees show others objects simply to share attention
15th November 2022 phys.org | Animal Life, Humans

Researchers have observed a wild chimpanzee showing an object to its mother simply for sharing’s sake—social behavior previously thought to be unique to humans.

These Mysterious Rocks Are The Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth, Scientists Say
15th November 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

Tracking down the oldest traces of life on Earth isn’t easy. Smoosh a bunch of microbes between layers of rock and let them ripen for billions of years; what you end up with is going to resemble rock more than an ancient life form.

Fish fossils show first cooking may have been 600,000 years earlier than thought
15th November 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

After examining carp remains, researchers claim people who lived 780,000 years ago liked their fish well done

Colorado Votes to Decriminalize Shrooms and Other Psychedelics
13th November 2022 | vice.com | Humans, Misc.

Colorado became the second state to legalize magic mushrooms and decriminalize other psychedelics for adults following Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Scientists discover massive ‘extragalactic structure’ behind the Milky Way
13th November 2022 | livescience.com | Ancient, Space, Weird

An uncharted region of space known as the “zone of avoidance” lurks behind the Milky Way’s center – and astronomers just found an enormous, multi-galaxy structure there.

Slaves to the rhythm: rats can’t resist a good beat, researchers say
13th November 2022 | theguardian.com | Animal Life, Humans

Study finds rats instinctively move in time to music – an ability previously thought to be uniquely human.

‘Overweight’ neutron star defies a black hole theory, say astronomers
11th November 2022 | theguardian.com | Humans, Space

An “overweight” neutron star has been observed by astronomers, who say the mysterious object confounds astronomical theories.

Footprints indicate human presence in Spain in Middle Pleistocene, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought
11th November 2022 phys.org | Ancient, Humans

Researcher and GRS Radioisotopes technician Jorge Rivera, from the University of Seville, has participated in an incredible discovery that is unique in Europe.

Astronomers Discover Oldest Planetary Debris in Our Galaxy – Remnants of Destroyed Solar System
9th November 2022 scitechdaily.com | Ancient, Space

Their findings conclude that a faint white dwarf located just 90 light-years from Earth, as well as the remains of its orbiting planetary system, are over ten billion years old. Led by the University of Warwick, the study was published on November 5 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Oldest known sentence written in first alphabet discovered – on a head-lice comb
9th November 2022 | theguardian.com | Ancient, Humans

Believed to be the oldest known sentence written in the earliest alphabet, the inscription on the luxury item reads: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”

Psychedelic drug research held back by UK rules and attitudes, say scientists
9th November 2022 | theguardian.com | Humans, Misc.

Draconian licensing rules and a lack of public funding are holding back the emerging field of psychedelic medicine in the UK, leading scientists have warned after the release of groundbreaking results on the use of psilocybin to treat depression.

Incredible Discovery Has Finally Revealed The First Animals to Grow a Skeleton
8th November 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Animal Life, Earth

Before life on Earth exploded in diversity some 540 million years ago, the first primitive animal skeletons were already starting to form.

IceCube neutrinos provide new view of active galaxy
7th November 2022 | eurekalert.org | Ancient, Space, Tech

An international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of Adelaide, have gathered new evidence about the energetic core of an active galaxy millions of lights years away by detecting neutrino particles emitted by it.

The ‘Beaver Blood Moon’ rises (and eclipses) on Nov. 8. Here’s how to watch.
7th November 2022 | livescience.com | Humans, Space

Sky watchers in North America who get an early start on Tuesday will also be treated to a total lunar eclipse — the last one for the next three years — with the moon falling into the darkest part of Earth’s shadow around 5:17 a.m. EST (9:17 a.m. UTC).

The Moon Had Volcanoes Much More Recently Than We Thought, Says New Study
7th November 2022 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Space

The analysis of these rocks revealed a great deal about the Moon’s composition, formation, and geological history. In particular, scientists concluded that the rocks were formed from volcanic eruptions more than 3 billion years ago.

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