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2 hours ago · On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is on a path that might lead to a collision with our planet on 22 December 2032. In other words, the ...

1 hour ago · A new solution to an old problem. Advice to eat less salt (sodium chloride) is not new. It has been part of international and Australian guidelines for decades.This is because evidence clearly shows the sodium in salt can harm our health when we eat too much of it.

1 day ago · These ecosystems move at a tectonic pace. Scientists estimate that some cells in the deep biosphere divide only once every thousand years. An iron oxide microbial mat that develops in the outflow channels from the boreholes drilled at the Soudan Underground Iron Mine in northern Minnesota.Cody Sheik

4 hours ago · The 'Last Ice Area' is expected to be the final place in the Arctic where ice persists all year round even as our planet warms up – but a new study suggests the region, and the ecosystem that relies on it, are going to disappear sooner than previously estimated. Researchers led by a team from ...

3 days ago · Synthesizing new proteins – the building blocks of biological life – is a scientific field of immense potential, and a newly developed AI model promises to create instructions for new proteins way beyond those found in nature. Scientists in the US have used EvolutionaryScale Model 3 (ESM3) to ...

Scientists Identify Vital Fat-Burning Protein That Could Aid Weight Loss Health 20 hours ago

Jan 21, 2025 · Public trust in scientists is vital. It can help us with personal decisions on matters like health and provide evidence-based policymaking to assist governments with crises such as the COVID pandemic or climate change. In a survey of 71,922 people across 68 countries, our global team of 241 ...

5 days ago · With all that excess energy already decimating wildlife en masse, leaving millions hungry from destroyed crops, and exacerbating diseases and other health conditions, it's hard to fathom how much worse this will rapidly get.. Aftermath of the floods in Valencia, Spain, 20 October 2024. (David Ramos/Staff/Getty Image News) "Policy makers and wider society should be aware that the rate of global ...

4 days ago · Our planet's Moon might look dead and stagnant from our vantage point here on Earth, but a new study suggests it was moving about just a 'hot minute' ago. On the dark side of our neighboring satellite, astronomers have discovered a strange amount of geological activity that occurred as recently as ...