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Are hikers unwittingly bringing microplastics into the Adirondack wilderness?

A report released last month is raising questions about whether hikers are bringing microplastics into remote areas of the ...

Geochemical research could help identify microbial activity in Earth's rock record and perhaps in Martian sediments

Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they ...

Berenicea's zooid size reduction over 200 million years contradicts Cope's rule, study reveals

Body size evolution has long been a core topic in paleontological research. Cope's rule describes the tendency for body size ...

Clickbait Gives AI Models ‘Brain Rot,’ Researchers Find

If you think scrolling the internet all day is making you dumber, just imagine what it’s doing to large language models that ...

Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”

On the surface, it seems obvious that training an LLM with “high quality” data will lead to better performance than feeding ...

‘London Underground mosquito’ is actually much older than previously thought

A mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground is actually of ancient Mediterranean origin, genetic ...
Scientific American

Is There a Fundamental Limit to Human Metabolism? New Research Suggests Yes

The research, published today in Current Biology, showed that ultramarathoners can burn an astounding 11,000 calories per day ...

Mars Discovery Means ‘Galaxy Could Be Teeming With Life,’ Scholar Says

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...
New Scientist

Unpicking the genetics of fibromyalgia sheds new light on its causes

Fibromyalgia, which causes chronic pain all over the body, is poorly understood, but two studies – made up of millions of ...