A “Molecular Condom” Could Be the Future of Male Contraception

Researchers at UC Berkley have found a way to block the channels that give sperm cells a ’power kick’ to penetrate the egg cell wall. There have also been other promising suggestions over the last two years. In a paper published last week in PNAS, researchers at UC Berkley have...
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Turns Out, Snakes Can Hunt in Packs, So Let’s Just All Move to Antarctica

Snake hive mind If you ever had the misfortune of being hunted by a snake, in spite of everything, you could consider yourself lucky - at least it’s not an entire nest of serpents teaming up to run you down and devour your flesh. While scientists have never really been sure if...
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Robotic turtles can be used to detect landmines in the desert

When it comes to detecting landmines, being slow is an advantage. Swarms of robotic sea turtles teaching themselves to crawl in the Arizona desert could one day be used to help clear landmines in war zones. The military already has minesweeping robots, but their bulk makes them costly and difficult...
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How Bilingual Brains Perceive Time Differently (Video)

A new study has found that what language you speak might alter your perception of time.
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A New And Unusual Force in The Universe Just Got Even Stranger

New research has expanded on the discovery of a strange phenomenon called blackbody force, showing that the effect of radiation on particles surrounding massive objects can be magnified by the space that warps around them. The find could affect how we model the formation of stars and planets, and even help us...
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Huge impact could have smashed early Earth into a doughnut shape

For a brief time during its infancy, Earth was not a planet. It was a hot, doughnut-shaped blob called a synestia. Rocky worlds can be pulverised by collisions with each other, mushrooming into synestias before cooling off and becoming more familiar-looking celestial spheres, a new study says. Worlds across...
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Ineffective antibiotics form strong teams against deadly super bacteria

In the fight against super bacteria, University at Buffalo scientists are relying on strength in numbers to win the battle against drug resistance. A team of researchers found that combinations of three antibiotics — that are each ineffective against superbugs when used alone — are capable of eradicating two of...
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Astronomers Have Finally Pinpointed The Source of One of Those Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are arguably the weirdest phenomena in our Universe right now. They’re some of the most explosive signals ever detected in space, generating as much energy as 500 million Suns in mere milliseconds, but scientists have been struggling to explain them. Now, astronomers have pinpointed the exact...
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18 Science Facts We Didn’t Know at The Start of 2017

1. Lungs don’t just facilitate respiration - they also make blood. Mammalian lungs produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, which equates to the majority of platelets circulating the body. 2. It is mathematically possible to build an actual time machine - what’s holding us back...
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The Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself When It Doesn’t Get Enough Sleep

The reason we sleep goes far beyond simply replenishing our energy levels every 12 hours - our brains actually change states when we sleep to clear away the toxic byproducts of neural activity left behind during the day. Weirdly enough, the same process starts to occur in brains that are...
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How Ebola disables people’s immune defenses

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston scientists have unlocked mysteries of how the Ebola virus hampers the body’s natural defenses to speed the rate of infection and its accompanying lethal disease, according to a new report in PLOS Pathogens. The study was conducted in collaboration with the University of...
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Cassini Takes Most Dangerous Saturn Ring Dive Yet

The Cassini spacecraft completes its sixth dive between Saturn and its rings today (May 28), and this is the most dangerous dive yet. Instead of passing safely between the planet and its rings, the spacecraft is plunging straight through the inner edge of Saturn’s D ring. The spacecraft, which is...
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NASA Is About to Make a Big Announcement About a New Mission to “Touch The Sun”

This Wednesday, NASA will officially announce its intention to launch a probe that will dip inside the Sun’s atmosphere, calling it the first ever mission to “touch the Sun”. The Solar Probe Plus mission will have to cope with temperatures and radiation unlike any other probe, but the data it...
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Physicists Are Probing The Centre of Our Galaxy to Find The Missing Fifth Force of Nature

Our current understanding of the Universe states that it’s governed by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetic, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. But there are hints of a fifth force of nature, and if it exists, we’d not only be able to fill the remaining holes in Einstein’s general...
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The Great Barrier Reef Can No Longer Be Saved by Current Efforts, Scientists Warn

You’re not going to like Plan B. The Great Barrier Reef can no longer be saved by existing plans to protect the ecological site, experts have warned, saying that efforts should shift to a lesser, backup plan of maintaining the reef’s “ecological function” instead. Scientists have told an Australian government...
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Breakthrough curved sensor could dramatically improve digital camera image quality

If you’ve ever tried to take a picture in a dark restaurant, you know that it is difficult to get a clear, quality image. In the future, cameras might not struggle under these conditions thanks to a newly developed method for spherically curving the flat image sensors found in today’s...
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Researchers stumble onto a new role for breast cancer drug

When the eyes of her mice looked normal, Xu Wang was certain she had done something wrong. She was blasting the mice with blinding light to study how a specific gene affected the animals’ response to eye injury. All the mice were given the drug tamoxifen. Half were engineered to...
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