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Scientists want to clone a Siberian bison extinct around 8,000 years ago
Researchers in Russia recently completed a necropsy, or animal autopsy, on a stunningly intact extinct bison that was unearthed from Siberian permafr…
Culture
Beethoven's DNA Analysis Sheds Light on his Mysterious Death
The world renowned composer Ludwig van Beethoven was infected with hepatitis B when he died, according to the first ever DNA analysis of the deaf m…
Sci-Tech
Metallic Cockroach Species Found Preserved in Unique Late Cretaceous Amber
Alienopterix santonicus was found preserved in a piece of ajkaite, a unique Late Cretaceous type of amber from western Hungary. “Cockroaches are o…
Sci-Tech
Quantum Breakthrough Enables Building a Wormhole to Explore the Universe
A local wormhole is a physical system characterized by the no-cloning of information that mediates the action of an exchange-free quantum computer: l…
Sci-Tech
Stunning Images of Rare Circular Sand Dunes Captured on Mars by NASA's MRO
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured stunning images of almost perfectly round sand dunes on the surface of the Red Planet. Whil…
Sci-Tech
Reevaluating the Size of Dunkleosteus Terrelli: A Chunky Superpredator of the Devonian Period
Dunkleosteus terrelli, an armor-plated fish that lived in the shallow subtropical waters of the Devonian period, about 360 million years ago, is one …
Sci-Tech
Triple Quasar Merger Results in 300 Billion Solar Mass Ultramassive Black Hole
Glimpsed only occasionally at the hearts of massive clusters of galaxies, ultramassive black holes are some of the largest and most elusive objects i…
Economy
Silicon Valley Bank: Finance expert explains the impact of largest US bank failure since 2008
Silicon Valley Bank, which catered to the tech industry for three decades, collapsed on March 10, 2023, after the Santa Clara, California-based len…
Health
Why Phobias Persist and How to Treat Them
Most people can think of something that's especially terrifying to them. Maybe they're scared of spiders — up to 15% of Americans have arac…
Sci-Tech
Controlling the State of Quantum Light could be the Key to Unlock New Frontiers in Science
The world we observe around us can be described according to the laws of classical physics, but once we observe things at an atomic scale, the strang…
