Rare hissing mushroom spotted at Texas state park
Chorioactis geaster. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 For the second time this year, a rare hissing mushroom was spotted in Texas at a state park in Hill Country. Known …
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Reindeer sleep while chewing their cud, a strategy that may help them in the summer
Screenshot of reindeer surveillance. Credit: Current Biology/Furrer et al. Researchers report December 22 in the journal Current Biology that the more time reindeer spend ruminating, the less time they spend …
How to give your animal friends a stress-free holiday season
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The holiday season can be hectic. Visitors flowing through our homes, the manic rush of food and gift preparations, finding the perfect party outfit and music …
Greenhouse vegetable production emits high levels of nitrous oxide, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that greenhouse vegetable production (GVP) systems are major sources of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, a potent greenhouse gas. The study, conducted …
What would the great economic philosophers think?
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Even during a cost of living crisis, with interest rates and inflation high, the average spending per person for Christmas 2023 in the U.K. is expected …
Bioengineers building the intersection of organoids and AI with ‘Brainoware’
Reservoir computing hardware properties. a, Evoked response (raster plot and post-stimulation histogram) on a single bipolar voltage pulse stimulation (mean ± standard error of the mean (s.e.m.), n = 5 stimulation trials). b, Representative …
People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia—and it had an inland sea
Left: Satellite image of the submerged northwest shelf region. Right: Drowned landscape map of the study area. Credit: US Geological Survey, Geoscience Australia For much of the 65,000 years of …
Ancient stars could make elements with more than 260 protons
R-process nucleosynthesis. Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The first stars of the universe were monstrous beasts. Comprised only of hydrogen and helium, they could be 300 times more massive than …
New AI model can predict human lifespan, researchers say. They want to make sure it’s used for good
Built using the same transformer models powering other large language models, a new AI tool is able to predict events in human lives, researchers say. Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Researchers …
Team develops transistors with sliding ferroelectricity based on polarity-switchable molybdenum disulfide
Credit: Yang et al. (Nature Electronics, 2023). Over the past few years, engineers have been trying to devise alternative hardware designs that would allow a single device to both perform …