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How the Statues of Easter Island Walked Into Place #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #EasterIsland #Archaeology

How the Statues of Easter Island Walked Into Place

Carved from volcanic rock, the mysterious statues of Easter Island—the moai—have loomed large in imaginations for centuries. The provenance of these massive stone sentinels has long been the subject...

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Long-term ayahuasca use linked to distinct emotional brain activity and higher resilience #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #Ayahuasca #Resilience

Long-term ayahuasca use linked to distinct emotional brain activity and higher resilience

Long-term users of ayahuasca may process emotional experiences differently than those who do not use the substance, according to a new brain imaging study published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

CO2 Ice Blocks Carve Sinuous Gullies Across Martian Dunes #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #MarsResearch #CO2Ice #PlanetaryGeology

CO2 Ice Blocks Carve Sinuous Gullies Across Martian Dunes

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

Life on Earth may have come from cosmic dust #Science #Space #Astrobiology #CosmicOrigins #LifeOnEarth

Life on Earth may have come from cosmic dust

The scientific community is largely divided into two camps regarding the origins of life on Earth. On one side, the idea that life spontaneously stemmed from the planet’s primordial soup of amino acids...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 1h

Chiral chemical fuels trigger two very different supramolecular self-assemblies #Science #Chemistry #SupramolecularChemistry #ChiralChemistry #SupramolecularAssembly #ChemicalFuels

Chiral chemical fuels trigger two very different supramolecular self-assemblies

Handedness of self-assembling peptides might explain the origins of homochirality in biological systems

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

That “Diet” Drink Isn’t As Safe As You Think: New Study Links It to Severe Liver Disease #Science #HealthandMedicine #PublicHealth #LiverDisease #DietDrinks #HealthRisk

That “Diet” Drink Isn’t As Safe As You Think: New Study Links It to Severe Liver Disease

Both sugary and low-calorie drinks were linked to higher liver disease risk. Replacing them with water lowered that risk. A large-scale study has found that both sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and low-...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

Arab Scholars May Have Noted the Supernovae of 1006 and 1181 #Science #Space #Astronomy #Supernovae #AstronomyHistory #ArabScholars

Arab Scholars May Have Noted the Supernovae of 1006 and 1181

It’s great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what’s known about historic astronomical events, but they can describe what early observers actually...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 2h

Geologists Find Proto Earth Fingerprints In Ancient Rocks #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #AncientRocks #EarthHistory

Geologists Find Proto Earth Fingerprints In Ancient Rocks

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

Negativity drives engagement on political TikTok #Science #Other hashtag 1 2 3

Negativity drives engagement on political TikTok

A new study published in Computers in Human Behavior suggests that political videos on TikTok that criticize opposing political parties and use emotionally charged or uncivil language tend to generate...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 3h

Rapa Nui's Famous Moai Statues Really May Have 'Walked' Into Place #Science #EarthSciences #Geology #Moai #RapaNui #Archaeology

Rapa Nui's Famous Moai Statues Really May Have 'Walked' Into Place

Right out of the quarry.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel Science Winners Since 2000 #Science #ScienceHistory #NobelPrize #Immigration #ScienceContributions

Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel Science Winners Since 2000

Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century, fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. These graphics trace their...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

The Download: aging clocks, and repairing the internet #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #AgingResearch #InternetRepair #TechInnovation

The Download: aging clocks, and repairing the internet

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 4h

New DNA Search Engine Brings Order to Biology’s Big Data #Science #Biology #Genetics #DNA #BigData #Bioinformatics

New DNA Search Engine Brings Order to Biology’s Big Data

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment #Science #Physics #CondensedMatterPhysics #IceDiscovery #XRayLaser

Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment

Meet ice XXI.

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

Could the Sun’s Orbit Shape Evolution? #Science #Space #Astrophysics #SunOrbit #CelestialMechanics

Could the Sun’s Orbit Shape Evolution?

It’s easy to understand how the price of a bar of chocolate might be correlated with weather patterns in Africa. Most cacao is grown in Africa, so if bad weather were to induce a change in the volume...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 5h

A Message in a Bottle from Another Star #Science #Space #Astrobiology #SpaceExploration #Exoplanets

A Message in a Bottle from Another Star

For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted through interstellar space, its origin, a distant planetary system. This summer, that fragment finally entered our Solar System, becoming only...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 6h

Why Building an Artificial Pancreas for People with Diabetes Is So Hard—And How Tech Is Finally Catching Up #Science #HealthandMedicine #MedicalTechnology #DiabetesTech #ArtificialPancreas #HealthInnovation

Why Building an Artificial Pancreas for People with Diabetes Is So Hard—And How Tech Is Finally Catching Up

How a father’s love, entrepreneurship and tech advances could lead to a working artificial pancreas

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 6h

Maternity lab coat aims to close a gap in PPE market and end unsafe practices #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #MaternitySafety #PPEInnovation #HealthTech

Maternity lab coat aims to close a gap in PPE market and end unsafe practices

Genius Lab Gear wants to stop trend of pregnant women creating Frankenstein lab coats with a tailored and adjustable lab coat

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it #Science #HealthandMedicine #Genetics #AgingResearch #HealthScience

How aging clocks can help us understand why we age—and if we can reverse it

Be honest: Have you ever looked up someone from your childhood on social media with the sole intention of seeing how they’ve aged? One of my colleagues, who shall remain nameless, certainly has. He...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks #Science #TechnologyandEngineering #DataCenters #EnergyEfficiency #Sustainability

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S. (Image credit: ULYSSE BELLIER/AFP via Getty Images)

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 7h

Cannabidiol may ease Alzheimer’s-related brain inflammation and improve cognition #Science #HealthandMedicine #Neurology #Alzheimers #Cannabidiol #BrainHealth

Cannabidiol may ease Alzheimer’s-related brain inflammation and improve cognition

A new study published in the journal eNeuro provides evidence that cannabidiol (CBD), a nonpsychoactive compound derived from cannabis, may help reduce brain inflammation associated with Alzheimer’s...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

This Small Device Could Unlock a Whole New Window on the Universe #Science #Space #SpaceExploration #SpaceTech #UniverseDiscovery #Astrophysics

This Small Device Could Unlock a Whole New Window on the Universe

Scientists have designed a compact new detector capable of sensing gravitational waves in a long-missing frequency range, potentially revealing cosmic events never before observed. Using precision optical...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

23 Indian children’s deaths linked to contaminated cough syrup #Science #HealthandMedicine #InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth #ChildHealth #ContaminatedMedicine

23 Indian children’s deaths linked to contaminated cough syrup

Dietheylene glycol contamination highlights consequences of poor inspection and enforcement

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump #Science #Other hashtag 1 2 3

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic. (Image credit:...

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Pure Science @purescience.news · 8h

Rare Comet Older Than the Sun Seen by Mars Orbiters #Science #Space #Astronomy #CometObservation #MarsOrbiters #AstronomyNews

Rare Comet Older Than the Sun Seen by Mars Orbiters

ESA’s Mars orbiters captured images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars, revealing its bright, hazy coma. Researchers are studying the data to learn more about this rare visitor...

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