Many lifestyle factors are already known to influence cancer development, prompting people to modify their habits. Well-established connections include smoking as a cause of lung cancer, excessive alcohol consumption leading to liver cancer, and poor dietary choices increasing the risk of stomach, pancreatic, and colorectal cancers. A less conventional link between an unhealthy diet and…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Liftoff! Four astronauts are flying toward the International Space Station (ISS) to relieve crew members who have been waiting for a ride home since last summer. SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon capsule Endurance on a Falcon 9 rocket this evening (March 14) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) here on Florida’s…
Forget counting candles on your birthday cake—a new artificial intelligence (AI) model developed by scientists at Osaka University in Japan can estimate your biological age using just five drops of blood. By analyzing 22 key steroids, the AI provides a personalized measure of how well your body has aged, offering potential insights into health management…
Are the Colors in Astronomical Images ‘Real’? In colorful photographs of galaxies, stars, planets, and more, what you see isn’t necessarily what you get By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings A colorful view of Lynds 483, an hourglass-shaped system of jets and outflows from two central protostars mid-formation. Captured by the James Webb Space…
Manganese nodules on the sea floor seem to be a source of oxygen – and may have been formed by bacteria Science History Images / Alamy Metallic nodules found deep in the sea seem to be producing significant amounts of oxygen by some unknown mechanism, researchers revealed last year. Now, we may have found out…
As Earth’s surface continues to buckle from the burdens of climate change, its upper atmosphere faces different troubles altogether as greenhouse gases threaten space sustainability. A new study warns that the future could bring a sharp increase in space debris as satellites start to get stuck in Earth’s orbit because of climate change. The study,…
Essential info: Price: $99.99/£89.99 Model number: 75403 Number of pieces: 1048 Dimensions: 7.5 x 7 x 6 inches (19 x 18 x 16cm) Recommended age: 10+ The previous Grogu model — or “The Child”, as Lego simply called it — is now retired and it’s time for a new one. This time, Lego has decided…
If you’ve ever fantasized about having a robot for a boss instead of your demanding human manager, new research suggests you might want to reconsider. While you’d likely feel less pressure to obey a mechanical superior, your performance might actually suffer under their synthetic supervision. In a first-of-its-kind study published January 6 in Cognition, Technology…
Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry By Ewen Callaway & Nature magazine Stone Age people might have crossed the Mediterranean on wooden canoes, navigating from island to island by sight. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Thousands of years before…
Sparks between water droplets may have started life as we know it Shutterstock/Perry Correll The first molecules necessary for life on Earth could have been created when tiny flickers of “microlightning” between drops of water sparked the necessary chemical reactions. “This is a new way to think about how the building blocks of life were…