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Yes No Mystery of Saudi Arabia's Monuments Deepens Michelle Starr, SciAlert In Quantum Physics, Even Humans Act as Waves Ethan Siegel, Forbes Why Companies Can't Afford to Make Antibiotics Maryn McKenna, Nature News 1st Male Murder Hornet in U.S. Caught in Washington State Alyse Stanley, Earther Quantum Reality Is Either Weirdly Different or It Collapses Chris Lee, Ars Technica A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring Grace Huckins, Wired This Might Be Your Most Important Flu Shot Ever Katherine Harmon Courage, Vox With Lithium-Sulfur, Electric Planes Could Finally Take Off Mark Crittenden, IEEE Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Why Sudan's Ancient Civilzation Has Been Overlooked Isma'il Kushkush, Sonian California Reveals Problem With Move to Renewables Hausfather & Trembath, Slate Renewable Energy Isn't to Blame for California's Blackouts Dharna Noor, Earther Follow RCScience: Facebook | Twitter | News360 | Email The Latest Research Termite-Fishing Chimpanzees Give Clues to Evolution of Technology Miami Mystery Gas Discovered Near Center of Milky Way EurekAlert! 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Read More In Quantum Physics, Even Humans Act as Waves Ethan Siegel , Forbes “Is it a wave or is it a particle?” Never has such a simple question had such a complicated answer as in the quantum realm. The... Read More Why Companies Can't Afford to Make Antibiotics Maryn McKenna , Nature News As the COVID-19 pandemic caught hold early this year, a small drug company outside Philadelphia was struggling to market a compound that... Read More 1st Male Murder Hornet in U.S. Caught in Washington State Alyse Stanley , Earther The murder-hornet-hunting heroes at the Washington State Department of Agriculture have successfully trapped a male specimen—the first... Read More Quantum Reality Is Either Weirdly Different or It Collapses Chris Lee , Ars Technica Quantum mechanics, when examined closely, poses some deep questions about reality. These questions often take the form of thought... Read More A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring Grace Huckins , Wired In mid-19th century Europe, a debate was raging among early brain scientists. Strangely, this academic disagreement had its roots in the... Read More This Might Be Your Most Important Flu Shot Ever Katherine Harmon Courage , Vox This fall and winter, health experts expect two types of deadly viruses to be circulating widely in the US. But they don't yet know what the... Read More With Lithium-Sulfur, Electric Planes Could Finally Take Off Mark Crittenden , IEEE Electric aircraft are all the rage, with prototypes in development in every size from delivery drones to passenger aircraft. But the... Read More Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem Kevin Hartnett , Quanta A team of mathematicians has finally finished off Keller's conjecture, but not by working it out themselves. Instead, they taught a fleet of... Read More Why Sudan's Ancient Civilzation Has Been Overlooked Isma'il Kushkush , Sonian If you drive north from Khartoum along a narrow desert road toward the ancient city of Meroe, a breathtaking view emerges from beyond the... Read More California Reveals Problem With Move to Renewables Hausfather & Trembath , Slate The recent “heat storm” in California has pushed grid operators to impose rolling blackouts for the first time since 2001. A... Read More Renewable Energy Isn't to Blame for California's Blackouts Dharna Noor , Earther On Friday and Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Californians had their power cut for a spurt in the evening. And more of this could be in... Read More The Latest Research Termite-Fishing Chimpanzees Give Clues to Evolution of Technology Miami Using the now-ubiquitous manmade technology of motion-activated cameras, researchers who remotely watched 25 immature chimpanzees grow up... Read More Mystery Gas Discovered Near Center of Milky Way EurekAlert! An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that's been shot out from the centre of the Milky Way "like... Read More Biomorphic Batteries Could Provide 72x More Energy for Robots Univ. Michigan Like biological fat reserves store energy in animals, a new rechargeable zinc battery integrates into the structure of a robot to provide... Read More Planetwide Storms May Have Filled Lakes, Rivers on Ancient Mars Univ. of Texas A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much... Read More Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety & Mental Health Elizabeth Landau , Quanta Carmen Sandi recalls the skepticism she faced at first. A behavioral neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,... Read More Secret to a Long, Healthy Life Is in Genes of Oldest Humans Shelly Fan , Sing Hub The first time I heard nematode worms can teach us something about human longevity, I balked at the idea. How the hell can a worm with an... Read More Can Aging Really Be 'Treated' or 'Cured'? Zachariah Wylde , The Conversation As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing.In recent decades, we've... Read More 'Drawn-on-Skin' Electronics Are Breakthrough in Wearable Monitors U Houston A team of researchers led by Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has... Read More More From Real Clear Videos The Next Pandemic Could Come From Factory Farms Buzzfeed Is Dust Mostly Dead Skin? Buzzfeed Can Marijuana Help with Opioid Addiction? Buzzfeed New Solutions to Sums of Three Cubes Buzzfeed -- Shining Light on Dark Matter What Dark Matter Is (Probably) Not Sean Carroll -- For a recent YouTube video, a theorist with a postdoctoral fellowship at CERN named Dorota Grabowska discussed dark matter with popular science figure Dianna Cowern (more commonly known as Physics Girl). Below the video, a viewer typed the comment, “Dark Matter is science speak for ‘we don't have a clue.'” Read More more from Shining Light on Dark Matter Is It Absurd to Think That Hexaquarks Could Be Dark Matter? Sabine Hossenfelder -- A New Generation of Dark Matter Experiments Sarah Charley -- Why Black Holes Probably Aren't Dark Matter Ethan Siegel -- Proof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers Ethan Siegel -- The CRISPR Frontier A CRISPR Calf Reveals Technique's Unpredictability -- The calf was late. His due date, March 30, had come and gone. At first, Alison Van Eenennaam chalked it up to male calves tending to arrive a day or two on the tardy side. As the week wore on, the animal geneticist reminded herself that gene-edited embryos—like the o...