If you are having a heart attack, you had better hope you are a man. Women are 50 per cent more likely than men to be misdiagnosed when having a heart attack. The main reason? Stereotypes: we tend to think of heart attacks as a “man thing”. Autism, too, has long been seen as a…
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Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland, where the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier terminates Sean Gallup/Getty A team of scientists and engineers will head to Greenland next month to test fly drones in the Arctic, in the hope of pioneering a new low-cost surveillance system that will transform monitoring of ice sheets. Currently most data on the state of…
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The Nintendo game Super Mario Advance, a version of Super Mario Bros compatible with a more modern console NINTENDO Gamers have especially strong nostalgia for childhood video games and game consoles that they played when they were about 10 years old – at least according to a study of Nintendo Switch players. “Through playing older…
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April sees the release of a new space opera trilogy from Neal Asher Alamy Stock Photo When the sun is out, it’s just about warm enough here in north-east London to read outside – which means it’s time to crack out the best new science fiction and find a sheltered spot. I love the way…
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KeyGene’s new potato variety (centre) has the skin of Pimpernel (left) and the flesh of Bintje (right) Courtesy of KeyGene A new technique for creating fruit and vegetables with the skin of one variety and the flesh of another could make crops more resistant to pests and droughts. A lot of the fruit and vegetables…
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On a large table draped with hundreds of cables, a maze of mirrors and lenses bounces and guides a thin beam of laser light. It culminates at a silvery capsule, which holds 40,000 strontium atoms cooled to within a whisker of absolute zero. This delicate edifice is an optical clock, one of the world’s most…
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Researchers have found salts in samples from asteroid Ryugu. Combined with similar salty discoveries from asteroid Bennu, the finding suggests that aqueous incubators of life’s first ingredients may have been relatively common in the early solar system. Astrochemists have found sugars and nucleotide bases outside of Earth before, but an extraterrestrial environment in which these…
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Coal-fired power plants in India—responsible for generating 73.4% of the country’s electricity—are bad for the country’s wheat. A new study shows that nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emitted from the plants can affect agricultural productivity on farms up to 100 kilometers away and reduce crop yields for wheat and rice in particular. “Our primary finding here is…
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It may not matter how many days a week you exercise, as long as you do it Hugh Bao / Alamy You don’t need to exercise every day to be healthy. Squeezing in at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity at the weekend seems to have similar health benefits as spreading it out…
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Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Climate models predict that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – a major conveyor-like system of ocean currents in the Atlantic – will weaken under global warming scenarios, causing major shifts in climate patterns. To build confidence in these projections,…
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