discoveries

Read the latest news stories about recent scientific discoveries on Newser.com

Stories 1621 - 1640 | << Prev   Next >>

Our Moon May Have Been Created From 'Moonlets'

A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned the smaller moonlets

(Newser) - A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned multiple moonlets that morphed into the one big moon we know today, the AP reports. Rather than one giant impact that knocked off part of early Earth and created the moon, a number of smaller collisions may have produced lots of mini-moons,...

A Blood Test Predicts How Well You're Going to Age

What secrets lurk within?

(Newser) - Every time the oldest people in the world celebrate a birthday, they're inevitably asked their secret to aging. Some cite alcohol, others the lack of it; some how much they sleep, others how little; many talk about just relaxing , and almost all pay homage to having good genes. Now...

Lost City Found: 5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

Man says he followed hunch, found lost city

(Newser) - A lost city and a new organ make this week's list of interesting discoveries:
  • Dinosaur Eggs Hatched in Potentially Troublesome Way : A Florida State University professor thinks he's solved one of the "greatest riddles" about non-avian dinosaurs: Did their eggs incubate slowly like those of lizards, or
...

Mystery Cosmic Waves Traced to Distant Galaxy

Source is a 'faint and puny galaxy'

(Newser) - Astronomers searching for the origins of a mysterious blast of radio waves have solved the puzzle: a tiny galaxy billions of light years from Earth, Space reports. So-called FRBs (fast radio bursts) twinkle in the sky for only a millisecond, yet they radiate more energy than the sun ever could...

Live Near Heavy Traffic? You Have Higher Dementia Risk

Study finds that those who live near major roads are more likely to develop dementia

(Newser) - Those who live near a high-traffic area may be at a higher risk of developing dementia, a new study out of Canada finds. Researchers looked at the records of more than 6.5 million Ontario residents ages 20 to 85 between 2001 and 2012, and found that within that group...

Fossil Fills in Big Blank About the Mysterious 'Ghost Shark'

It belongs to an early chimaera, not a shark

(Newser) - The chimaera, or so-called "ghost shark," is an elusive deep-water fish that has fascinated biologists for more than a century. Like its relative the shark, however, it's made of cartilage and thus rarely fossilizes, so little is known about its evolutionary past, reports Live Science . Now the...

Man Follows Hunch, Says He Has Uncovered Lost City

13th-century Trellech was once Wales' largest city

(Newser) - Stuart Wilson says people thought he was crazy when he gambled $39,000—his life savings—on a 4.6-acre field in Wales. Having heard a farmer's story about moles digging up bits of pottery on the land, the amateur archaeologist tells the Guardian he had a hunch that...

Scientists Discover New Organ Inside the Human Body

It's our 79th

(Newser) - Unprepared kids who want to get out of taking a test in 2017 can just tell the teacher their mesentery hurts. Irish researchers have classified a new organ in the human body while proving "the anatomic description that had been laid down over 100 years of anatomy was incorrect,...

Dinosaur Eggs Hatched in Potentially Troublesome Way

Non-avian dino eggs hatched slowly, over as many as 6 months, study finds

(Newser) - A Florida State University professor thinks he's solved one of the "greatest riddles" about non-avian dinosaurs: Did their eggs incubate slowly like those of lizards, or quickly like those of birds? The former, found Gregory Erickson and his team, and they came to their conclusion by studying embryonic...

Don't Blink: 5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

Including a weird new bee that looks like an ant

(Newser) - An insight about eye contact and a study that might interest moms-to-be were among the notable discoveries of the week:
  • Scientists Have a Theory on Why You Break Eye Contact : Researchers in Japan suggest there's a surprising neurological reason why people avert their gaze during conversation, and it has
...

Device Can Detect 17 Diseases by Our Breath
Device Can Detect
17 Diseases by
Our Breath
study says
Dec 29, 2016 3:41 PM CST

Device Can Detect 17 Diseases by Our Breath

Including Parkinson's and multiple cancers

(Newser) - What if detecting cancer was as easy as breathing in and out? According to a study published last week in American Chemical Society Nano , it pretty much is. Scientist Hossam Haick has been working on his "electronic nose" for years, the Outline reports, and this new study shows the...

&#39;Friendship Bench&#39; Chats Can Ease Depression
Low-Cost Remedy Eases
Symptoms of Mental Illness
new study
Dec 28, 2016 9:18 AM CST

Low-Cost Remedy Eases Symptoms of Mental Illness

They're called 'Friendship Bench' chats

(Newser) - It's a simple idea: bring depression sufferers together with "grandmothers" for a good heart-to-heart talk on a park bench. But what researchers learned from the "friendship bench" study could change the lives of millions in sub-Saharan Africa who suffer from common mental disorders where services are scarce....

New Species Looks Like Ant, Bee Had a Baby

9 new species of desert bee revealed in Zootaxa study

(Newser) - If an ant and a bee had a baby, it would probably look a lot like the male Perdita prodigiosa, one of nine new species of desert bee mesmerizing researchers. All of the newly discovered bees come from the Perdita group of more than 700 species and subspecies of bees...

Another Hangover to Worry About
Another Hangover
to Worry About
NEW STUDY
Dec 28, 2016 6:03 AM CST

Another Hangover to Worry About

'Emotional hangovers' can shape future memories, study shows

(Newser) - With more holiday revelry looming, the last thing we need to worry about is another type of hangover. But odds are we've already experienced a phenomenom called "emotional hangover." That's the name neuroscientists have given to that heartsick feeling that trails painful experiences or the euphoria...

Scientists Have a Theory on Why You Break Eye Contact

Blame an overworked brain, suggests study

(Newser) - Researchers in Japan suggest there's a surprising neurological reason why people avert their gaze occasionally during conversation. Reporting in the journal Cognition , they write that eye contact actually "disrupts resources available to cognitive control processes during verb generation." In other words, when you need to come up...

Oldest Water: 5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

Also: a case for having a female doctor

(Newser) - An ancient source of water and an intriguing find about how pregnancy affects the brain were among the discoveries making headlines this week:
  • World's Oldest Water Found in Canada : Scientists have discovered the oldest water ever found on Earth deep in a Canadian mine. The 2-billion-year-old oasis could help
...

Researchers: We Know the Stradivarius&#39; Secret
Researchers: We Know
the Stradivarius' Secret
study says
Dec 23, 2016 11:33 AM CST

Researchers: We Know the Stradivarius' Secret

One key to its sound appears to be an old mineral bath

(Newser) - For hundreds of years, violins by Antonio Stradivari have been considered the best in the world, some fetching millions of dollars. The only other instruments vying for the title were crafted by a man named Giuseppe Guarneri, who toiled away in his workshop in the same northern Italian city of...

There&rsquo;s a Staggering Number of Insects Above Us
There’s a Staggering
Number of Insects Above Us
NEW STUDY
Dec 23, 2016 8:28 AM CST

There’s a Staggering Number of Insects Above Us

Those that fly over the UK each year have the mass of 20K reindeer

(Newser) - Step outside and imagine there's a blanket of billions of insects overhead—because there probably is. Researchers who spent a decade tracking insects 500 to 4,000 feet above the ground in south-central England using radar beams and nets found about 3.5 trillion bugs and butterflies migrate across...

Ebola Vaccine 100% Effective: 'We Will Not Be Defenseless'

rVSV-ZEBOV has been fast-tracked by regulators

(Newser) - Excellent news as 2016 draws to a close: Scientists say they've created an Ebola vaccine that appears to be 100% effective. In a trial involving more than 11,000 at-risk people in Guinea, nobody given the vaccine developed the virus after a 10-day incubation period, researchers wrote in a...

World's Oldest Water Found in Canada

Oasis could provide clues to ancient life on Earth—and Mars

(Newser) - Scientists have discovered the oldest water ever found on Earth deep in a Canadian mine. The 2 billion-year-old oasis could help us understand the origins of life on our planet and beyond, Gizmodo reports. Researchers from the University of Toronto dug 1.5 miles deep in the Kidd Creek Mine...

Stories 1621 - 1640 | << Prev   Next >>