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This week, medical researchers ruled out brainstem CT scanning alone for proof of neurologic death. Researchers at Yale presented new evidence that the brain stores and retrieves visuomotor associations in graph-like cognitive structures. And a […]

This week, the state of Florida reached a “startling milestone” in the effort to eradicate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. Archaeologists found the 6,000-year-old remains of a teen girl with cranial modification. And a […]

This week, Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete skull representing the first known sauropod species from East Asia. A team at the USDA identified viruses from a miticide-resistant parasitic mite causing honey bee colony collapses. […]

Scientists need skills in visual analysis and critical thinking, but these skills aren’t being taught or practiced nearly enough in our university classrooms.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan’s Lake Superior found logs and rocks on the bottom but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three people on a scientific assignment.This […]

A new study of the Gobi Wall in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia reveals a multifunctional role beyond defense; data from the James Webb Space Telescope is bringing physicists closer to resolving the Hubble […]

Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

This week, paleontologists reported finding new details in an Archaeopteryx fossil via CT scanning and UV light exposure. NASA engineers revived a set of thrusters aboard Voyager 1 that had been considered inoperable in 2004. […]

An exceptionally rare blue diamond went under the hammer in Geneva late Tuesday, selling for $21.5 million, Sotheby’s auction house said.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

A scientist braving crashing waves to track whales in a northern Norwegian fjord tops a list of winners of Nature’s 2025 Scientist At Work competition. Arctic telescopes, tiny frogs, and mountain fog also feature in […]