Scientists are getting serious about UFOs. Here’s why
UFOs have been rebranded as UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). Probably not aliens, they might impact national security and aircraft safety.
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Stress triggers different brain responses in women and men with alcohol use disorder
Stress and alcohol use disorder often walk hand in hand, both affecting the brain’s neural circuits in complex ways. A recent study published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research reveals how sudden social stress affects anxiety and brain activity in…
Lasers help put the cork on spilled oil
Oil spills at sea pose risks to aquatic life and people. Every year, such toxic spills taint the water at more than 150 U.S. sites alone. Attempts to remove that oil tend to be messy, costly and often not very…
Unique transistor ‘could change the world of electronics’ thanks to nanosecond-scale switching speeds and refusal to wear out
A new material can withstand ‘billions’ of electrical cycles without wearing out — and scientists say it could transform electronics within 10 to 20 years.
Jupiter Mars conjunction: How to see the Red Planet and the Giant Planet side-by-side in the sky next week
Look east before dawn on Wednesday, Aug. 14, to see the giant planet and the Red Planet just a third of a degree from one another in a rare planetary conjunction.
Powerful solar eruption temporarily rips ‘tail’ off Earth’s magnetosphere
A massive disturbance in the solar wind caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail.
Ketamine as an entactogen: Scientists reveal intriguing impact on social pleasure and empathy
Ketamine treatment not only alleviates symptoms of treatment-resistant depression but also enhances social pleasure and empathetic behaviors, according to new research published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. This discovery provides evidence that ketamine can have entactogenic effects. Empathy is…
China begins launching a megaconstellation, and it sounds a lot like Starlink
Enlarge / A Long March 6A rocket launches the first 18 Internet satellites for China’s Qianfan, or Thousand Sails, broadband network. (credit: VCG via Getty Images) Chinese officials have long signaled their interest in deploying a satellite network, or maybe…
Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor
This is Google’s new streaming box, the Google TV Streamer. It’s meant to sit on your media console instead of hanging from your TV’s USB port like the Chromecast. [credit: Google ] Google is discontinuing the Chromecast brand and pulling…
Hundreds of snake species get a new origin story
Elapoid snakes, including cobras, mambas and sea snakes, may have evolved in Asia, not Africa as many researchers once thought.
