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Health
“Zombie” Virus that Spent 48,500 Years Frozen is Revived
The Arctic's permafrost, a frozen layer of soil, is melting due to rising temperatures, potentially awakening viruses dormant for millennia.
Experts caution that the threat, although minimal, is being underestimated. Thawing could also release hazardous waste from the Cold War...
Life
Physically Demanding Work Linked to Higher Male Fertility
A new study has been released with findings suggesting that males who often move heavy things at work may have greater sperm counts. The study was conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
The article, which was written as...
Animals
Graveyard of Fossilized Shark Teeth Found in Indian Ocean
A graveyard of fossilized shark teeth was found nearly 5.3 miles below the Indian Ocean, according to researchers from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
The researchers discovered the teeth in October during a month-long voyage along Indonesia's...
Archaeology
Mystery of Exceptional Sound at Greece’s Epidaurus Theater Solved
The ancient mystery of the great sound quality at the ancient Greek theater of Epidaurus has finally been solved, researchers posit.
Environment
Melting Glaciers on the Alps Reveal Ancient Hiking Path
After Europe's hottest summer on record, an ancient hiking path between two glaciers on the Alps that was buried in ice, has been made visible for the first time in at least two thousand years.
This year's ice melt was...
Science
Jupiter’s Orbit Change Could Make Earth Even More Hospitable to Life
According to recent research, a change in Jupiter's orbit might make the surface of Earth even more suitable to life than it already is.
Scientists at the University of California-Riverside (UCR) studied simulations of several configurations of our solar system...
Science
AI Can Now Decode Speech From Brain Activity
With astonishing but still imperfect accuracy, artificial intelligence (AI) can decode words and sentences from brain activity.
AI makes an estimate as to what a person has heard based on a few seconds worth of brain activity data. In a...
Energy
Scientists Urge Year-Round Summertime to Reduce Energy Costs
Italian researchers are urging the government to implement summertime throughout the entire year to save energy costs, lessen pollution, and promote public health.
Like the majority of nations, Italy also sets its clocks one hour forward in the spring and...
Science
NASA Instrument Makes Oxygen on Mars
NASA research has made a major advancement toward human habitation on Mars by successfully producing breathing oxygen using materials discovered on the Red Planet.
The Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, or MOXIE, a NASA instrument, has achieved a...
Environment
Greenland Ice Melt Raised Sea Level by 10 Inches
Glaciologists who study the seasonal growth and loss of the Greenland Ice Sheet have come to the startling conclusion that even if we stopped burning fossil fuels completely today, it would still lose enough mass on its own to...