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Mercury Could Be Smaller Than Its Ancient Size By Miles
Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years, but scientists may have seriously underestimated how much the planet has contracted. A new analysis suggests its roughest terrain has been hiding evidence of that dramatic change. The revised estimate puts Mercury’s radial contraction between 6.9 and 11.6 kilometers. At the upper end, that could mean the…
Scientists Identify 36 Genes Linked To OCD And Tourette Syndrome
For 20 years, researchers collected DNA from families affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders without having the technology to fully read what those samples contained. Now, a new study has identified 36 large-effect risk genes linked to OCD and tic disorders, dramatically expanding a genetic map that previously contained only four confirmed genes.…
Scientists Are Testing Old Drugs For Their Anti Ageing Potential
A cheap diabetes pill, an old transplant drug, and compounds found in grape seeds are becoming unlikely stars of ageing research. None has been proven to make healthy humans live longer, but researchers are investigating whether existing drugs could eventually help people spend fewer of their later years dealing with age-related disease. The idea sounds…
Minnesota Woman’s Mugshot Went Viral After A Jennifer Lopez Comparison, Then The Image Took A Strange Turn
A Minnesota theft case suddenly became an internet spectacle after a booking photo of 35-year-old Cyrena Anne Quast was compared to Jennifer Lopez. Quast, from St. Cloud, had been arrested following an alleged theft at a Runnings hardware store in Monticello involving two packs of power tool batteries. The alleged value of the batteries was…
Indian Villagers Tie Telecom Worker To Tower Over Long Network Outage
A routine telecom inspection in an Uttar Pradesh village took a bizarre turn when residents tied a visiting technician to the very tower he had come to inspect. The man was reportedly held there for around two hours as villagers demanded that senior officials finally address a network problem they said had plagued the area…
Barbie’s New Phone Has One Brutal Rule: You Can’t Scroll Anything
Remember when having a phone meant calling someone and sending a text? Barbie apparently does. Mattel and Finnish phone company HMD teamed up to create a pink flip phone that looks like it escaped straight from a Y2K bedroom, complete with glowing palm trees, hearts, flamingos and enough Barbie details to make a regular smartphone…
25,000-Year-Old Teeth Reveal One of Humanity’s Oldest Drug Habits
A pair of ancient human teeth has revealed something researchers did not expect to find buried in an Ice Age cave: evidence that people may have been repeatedly using a psychoactive plant thousands of years before agriculture began. The strange discovery came from two sets of human remains found in caves in South Sulawesi. Their…
A 1,500-Foot Tsunami Hit Alaska. Scientists Warn It Could Happen Again
The mountain gave way at 5:26 on a Sunday morning, sending more than 63 million cubic metres of rock crashing into Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The impact forced the water upward with such force that it climbed 481 metres up the opposite mountainside, creating a wave roughly 1,578 feet high. Nobody died, but researchers say…
Professor Gives Everyone Full Marks After AI Takes Over His Classroom
A college professor spent weeks reading final papers that barely sounded like the students who submitted them. Then he made a decision that left the entire class with the same grade: 10/10. The reason was not generosity. He had reached the point where figuring out which papers were genuinely written by students had become almost…
Scientists Created A Robot Finger Covered In Living Human Skin
A robotic finger covered in real human skin sounds like something lifted from a science-fiction film, but researchers in Japan have actually built one in a laboratory. The strange-looking creation can bend with its mechanical joints, develop natural-looking wrinkles and even repair damaged tissue with the help of a collagen graft. The project, led by…