Last month, The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new blood test for assisting the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Produced by Roche, Elecsys pTau181 measures the concentration of a specific molecule—a phosphorylated form of the…
News Source: https://www.wired.com/story/blood-tests-for-alzheimers-have-arrived-but-how-effective-are-they-and-can-they-really-change-patients-lives/
Scientists have spotted orcas hunting a nursery of juvenile sharks for the first time,…
News Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/orcas-feeding-shark-attack-nursery-b2858065.html
Ice excavated from deep under the surface of Antarctica has just yielded humanity’s oldest directly dated samples of glacial ice and air ever found.
From beneath hundreds of meters of glacial ice that gradually accumulated over eons at Allan…
News Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/oldest-air-ever-measured-found-in-ice-from-6-million-years-ago
Discarded nets, lines and traps are a hazard to marine life and ecosystems around the world, but pioneering programs are tackling the problem creatively through education, prevention, ocean cleanups and recycling
News Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ghost-gear-or-abandoned-fishing-equipment-is-haunting-the-oceans-heres-how-conservationists-are-fighting-back-180987605/
On 24 February 1997, Jerry Linenger and his five crewmates faced a danger they hoped they’d never meet: a fire aboard their space station, which, at present, was hundreds of kilometres above the surface of Earth.
The blaze began shortly after…
News Source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/fire-in-space-jerry-linenger
In 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez shot one of the definitive horror…
News Source: https://www.popsci.com/science/why-you-see-things-in-dark/
Out of all pop-culture cryptids that lurk in the dark, vampires have the most iconic fangs by far. One can only assume they’d have a soft spot not just for bats, but also for spiders with fangs that look straight out of a horror movie. Vampires…
News Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/vampire-spiders-obsess-over-human-blood-pouncing-on-mosquitoes-to-get-their-fill-48196
Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the fingers.
In the journal Nature,…
News Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-fossils-reveal-surprisingly-gorilla-like-features-of-ancient-human-relative
Today’s high school students face an uncertain road ahead. AI is changing what skills are valued in the job market, and the Trump administration’s funding cuts have stalled scientific research across disciplines. Most professions seem…
News Source: https://www.wired.com/story/teens-stem-school-career-artificial-intelligence/
