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The Oldest Known Right-Handed Animal May Have Lived 550 Million Years Ago More than 550 million years ago, a small, flattened animal moved across the seafloor and repeatedly favored one direction. Fossils of Spriggina floundersi suggest that when it bent its body, it tended to turn right. That pref…

Novel antibiotic candidates starve resistant bacteria by blocking vitamin supply Bacteria have spent decades evolving resistance to virtually every antibiotic we have thrown at them. To stay ahead, new drugs must hit targets that existing antibiotics have never touched. A research team at the Helmho…

The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home Life has scarcely found a boundary on Earth that it can’t push. While much of life’s diversity exists in lush, bountiful habitats like tropical rainforests and coral reefs, even the most brutal corners of the planet are also occupied. The organism…

MIT’s Tiny Flying Robot Just Learned To Move Like a Real Insect After an earthquake, survivors can become trapped beneath piles of unstable debris where conventional rescue robots are too large to enter. Tiny flying machines modeled on insects could one day move through these narrow gaps while avoid…

New Metal Alloy Is up to 10 Times Stronger Than Structural Steel Jet engines demand materials that can survive tremendous heat and force without bending, cracking, or slowly losing their shape. The strongest candidates, however, often come with a major weakness: they are too brittle to deform safely…

Researchers Narrow Down the Type of Meteorite that Killed the Dinosaurs During the Cretaceous-Paleogene period (ca. 66 million years ago), a massive impact triggered an extinction-level event (ELE), wiping out about three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, including the dinosaurs. Sc…

Neuroscience findings often can't be replicated — and it's a big problem for what we know about the brain One of the central assumptions of modern neuroscience research is that the brain's shape and structure affect behavior. Scientists have linked a thicker cortex (the brain's outer layer) to hig…

Quantum Computer Stores Data in Vibrations Like Notes on a Guitar A quantum computer does not usually bring musical instruments to mind. Yet inside a chip developed at ETH Zurich, information is stored in vibrations that behave somewhat like notes resonating through a guitar. These movements cannot…

Why AI May Never Reach Human Intelligence A prominent computer scientist argues that a proposal made by Alan Turing, widely regarded as the father of theoretical computer science, sent artificial intelligence research in the wrong direction for the past 75 years. In his new analysis, “Turing’s Mist…

Harvard Scientists Turned a Silicon Chip Into a DNA Factory Silicon chips have driven the computing revolution for more than 50 years. Now, researchers are finding new ways to use them in biology, including monitoring large groups of neurons, sequencing DNA, and even manufacturing DNA itself. A Har…

EU's AI 'guardrails' cannot absorb rapid changes in technology, study warns "Guardrails" built by the EU to govern AI fall short in both ambition and execution and have become too heavy to absorb rapid changes in technology, a new study in Big Data & Society warns. The rules took years of negotiati…

Cells from your mother likely infiltrated your brain in the womb, and they could survive for decades, study reveals Researchers have discovered that children's brains can contain cells with their mother's DNA and that these cells can persist for decades. The findings, which were posted to the prepr…

The Case of the Sun's Missing Silver There is something quietly reassuring about a scientific mystery that gets solved not by a dramatic new discovery, but by simply looking again, more carefully, at something we thought we already understood. That’s exactly what has happened with the Sun, and the m…

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57 years ago the Eagle touched down on the lunar surface & raised the bar for humanity moving forward. Apollo remained the high point in human spaceflight ever since. Artemis carries the torch lit by the Apollo crews, and our return has already begun. We’re going. Source: @AJamesMcCarthy @Everythi…