Asteroid 2026JH2 has enough mass to wipe out a city and will zoom past Earth next week
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After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to scrap our current view of the condition and start again
Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belong to Homo erectus, providing molecular clues to their relationships with other hominins
Genetically altered bacteria can synthesise gadusol, a naturally occurring compound found in zebrafish eggs that could be developed as an alternative to existing sunscreen products that can harm marine life
Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.
<p>Flock shape, speed and structure are key in deciphering whether radar readouts are birds, bats, insects or weather</p>
Early galaxy has elements produced by the Universe's first supernovae.
<p>Digital distractions can undermine our focus, but research suggests that our inherent capacity to pay attention hasn’t diminished</p>
<p>Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some of the first stars to ever shine</p>
<p>Ett vulkanutbrott i norr, återkommande översvämningar, och på det ett hot direkt från Donald Trump. – Hur sover du om nätterna? frågar jag Vanuatus klimatminister …</p>
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<p>Researchers say rise not inevitable and it is important to unpick what is behind differences in obesity trends</p><p>A continuing rise in obesity around the world is not inevitable, research suggests, with rates in some countries levelling off or potentially in decline.</p><p>Researchers say focusing on what has been described as a global epidemic of obesity hides large variations in trends across different countries, sexes and age groups.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/13/obesity-trends-levelling-off-falling-study">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Mapping their starting point like bees do helps autonomous drones find their way</p>
<p>Mikroskopisk kolit är en inflammatorisk tarmsjukdom som bland annat orsakar långvarig och vattnig diarré. Oftast drabbas äldre kvinnor. För att kunna ställa diagnosen krävs vävnadsprover. Forskare har i en studie analyserat alla fall av mikroskopisk kolit i Sverige mellan 1995 och 2021. Totalt handlar det om drygt 22 000 personer där sjukdomen bekräftats genom biopsier. – […]</p>
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<p>Upptäckten gjordes när arkeologer undersökte en bronsåldersmiljö i Marby öster om Norrköping. I en stensättning fanns en urna med benbitar från gravbålet och ytterligare bengömmor. …</p>
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<p>Östersjön har funnits i cirka 8 000 år och relativt tidigt tog sig sillen in från Atlanten. Sillen är en av ganska få atlantfiskar som har lyckats anpassa sig till Östersjöns låga salthalt. Hindret för atlantfiskar är att de ska kunna leka och föröka sig när salthalten är dramatiskt lägre än i Atlanten. Det faktum […]</p>
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The bird retina is one of the most energetically expensive tissues in the animal kingdom, yet it doesn’t use the energy advantage of oxygen. New research finally explains how this is possible. <p>The post <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-bird-eye-was-pushed-to-an-evolutionary-extreme-20260513/" target="_blank">How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org" target="_blank">Quanta Magazine</a></p>
<p>A new book by linguistics professor Valerie Fridland, who was raised in Memphis by parents with French accents, explores the power behind the way we speak</p><p>Valerie Fridland writes in her new book, Why We Talk Funny: the Real Story Behind Our Accents, that humans instinctively use accents to categorize those around us. “We learn to recognize other people as being like us through the way that they sound,” Fridland says. It happens early: studies suggest small children, when choosing friends, favor those who share their accent.</p><p>In <a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2019/01/kids-accents">one study</a>, for instance, five- and six-year-olds were shown pairs of kids on a computer screen, one with a local Canadian accent and one with a British accent. Asked who they wanted to be friends with, they picked the kid with the local accent – even though they lived in Toronto and are exposed to a huge range of accents every day.</p><p>Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/13/valerie-fridland-linguistics-accents">Continue reading...</a>
Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward continental breakup.
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<p>Malaria incidence is increasing, progress on maternal mortality is stalling, and some childhood vaccine rates are plateauing or have dipped below the threshold for herd immunity</p>
Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release information about AI-produced content, regulators have confirmed. The move follows a successful request by New Scientist for the release of a minister's ChatGPT logs
<p>With millions of people now using GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound, scientists are racing to find ways to help people retain their weight loss after they stop taking the medication</p>
<p>People exposed to the Andes strain of the hantavirus may not develop symptoms for up to 42 days, a delay that makes tracing infections more difficult</p>
<p>Long-held assumptions tell us that atoms with the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons are indistinguishable, but one physicist wants to put this idea to the test</p>