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Photo by Steffi Lopez. COVID Lockdowns Prematurely Aged Girls’ Brains by 4 Years
Meanwhile, teen boys’ brains prematurely aged 1.4 years.
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Yellow 5 Dye Can Make Mice Translucent
Slathering a mouse with dye could be a new method of observing biological processes and internal organs without invasive procedures.
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Human Brain Tissue Viewed at 400x Magnification. Photo by Simon Belcher/imageBROKER/Shutterstock The Wild, Government-Funded Idea to Rejuvenate Human Brains with Lab-Grown Tissue
To combat aging, this scientist wants to replace parts of the human body with better, newer, younger parts.
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Scientists measure the energy needed to excite the thorium-229 nucleus, which is the core of a future nuclear clock. Chuankun Zhang/JILA. Nuclear Clock Breakthrough Could Expose Dark Matter and Speed Up the Internet
Scientists just built an ultraprecise prototype.
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Photo by Anand Mishra. Researchers Gave a Mushroom a Robot Body
The mushroom’s mycelia can produce electrical signals in response to stimuli like light.
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A porbeagle shark off the cost of Cornwall, Britain, in 2015. Photo by Jerryrogers/Bournemouth News/Shutterstock Mystery Predator Eats Pregnant 7-Foot Shark Near Bermuda
Scientists were tracking the shark when its satellite tag sent some unusual readings.
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Diagram via IOCB Prague. Scientists Finally Discovered How ‘Kamikaze’ Termites Blow Themselves Up
For years, scientists had no idea how it could do anything so weird and gross.
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Photo by Ben Dilley / Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Killer Mice Are Terrorizing This Island’s Birds. So Now They’re Getting “Bombed.”
The Mouse-Free Marion Project is planning to drop 600 tons of rodent-killing pellets across the island using helicopters.
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View of the submerged stone bridge from Genovesa Cave, Mallorca, Spain. Photo by R. Landreth A Hidden Underwater Sea Bridge Just Changed Our Ideas About Ancient Human Settlement
Researchers made the discovery while diving in a Balearic cave.
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‘Space Invaders’ Could Help Dyslexic Kids With Reading
The fast-paced, attention-demanding nature of some games apparently activates the cognitive processes necessary for language development.
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Dinosaur footprints courtesy Ismar de Souza Carvalho / Southern Methodist University. Matching Dinosaur Footprints Found on Two Separate Continents
The dinosaur footprints found in Brazil and Cameroon are nearly identical in shape, age, and “geological context.”
