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Film research study shows how the brain reacts to difficult moral issues
Brain activity for the two tasks of a) deciding to rescue the own sister, a friend, or strangers from a dangerous country in red...
Nanomagnets levitate thanks to quantum physics
Cosimo Rusconi (l.) and Oriol Romero-Isart (r.) play with a levitron to illustrate their work on nano magnets.
Credit: IQOQI Innsbruck/M.R.Knabl
Already in 1842, British...
Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs
Total solar eclipse corona.
Credit: © Kenneth Keifer / Fotolia
Researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded....
Arabian sea humpback whales isolated for 70,000 years
A whale named 'Spitfire' swims in the waters off the island of Hallaniyah in southern Oman. Scientists from WCS, AMNH, and the Environment Society...
How bacteria hinder chemotherapy
Bacteria (green) inside human pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC-1 cells). The cells' nuclei are stained blue while their cytoplasm is stained orange.
Credit: Weizmann Institute of...
No clear evidence that most new cancer drugs extend or improve life
Do new cancer drugs actually work?
Credit: © stevecuk / Fotolia
Even where drugs did show survival gains over existing treatments, these were often marginal, the...
Marine species threatened by deep-sea mining
These are polymetallic nodules with Plenaster craigi. White line is 1 cm.
Credit: Adrian Glover, Thomas Dahlgren, Helena Wiklund
Less than half of our planet's surface...
Keratin, proteins from 54-million-year-old sea turtle show survival trait evolution
Tasbacka danica.
Credit: Johan Lindgren
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment,...
Hurricane exposes and washes away thousands of sea turtle nests
Sea turtle eggs exposed after hurricane-driven storm surge washed away sand and dunes where they were incubating. Photo taken Sept. 13, 2017, at Archie...
Determining when humans started impacting the planet on a large scale
Earth from space.
Credit: © Vadimsadovski / Fotolia
Humans have so profoundly altered Earth that, some scientists argue, our current geologic epoch requires a new name:...
Traces of failed Super-eruption in the Andes
The Chao volcano in northern Chile with a lava coulée approx. 14.5 km long (centre of picture). The composition of the lava matches that...
