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Athletes wearing a friction-reducing swimsuit dominated the 2008 Beijing Olympics Adam Pretty/Getty Images Friction: A biography Jennifer R. Vail, Harvard University Press IN 2009, World Aquatics banned a specific type of swimsuit from all international competitions in water sports, ruling that it gave athletes an unfair advantage. The development of this swimsuit included using NASA’s

Epstein-Barr virus is a very common infection, but that doesn’t make it harmless Science History Images/Alamy About 1 in 10 people carry genetic variants that make them particularly vulnerable to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a ubiquitous pathogen that is increasingly being linked to conditions like multiple sclerosis and lupus. The finding, which comes from a

Humans Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like Malta and Australia. Doing so meant striking out in unknowable conditions. What do such crossings tell us about ancient minds? By Michael Marshall Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email Tùng Nâm

With his tail whipping furiously, Massi, an Italian-bred 4-year-old Lagotto dog, runs around in a quiet forest in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The fur around his paws has gone dark and muddy from all the digging and darting across the forest floor; his curly muzzle brownish from rooting in the soil. Massi rushes down the slope

An artist’s illustration of life in Earth’s oceans at the time of the Huayuan biota Dinghua Yang An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction event. The fossils date from the Cambrian period, which began

Tesla is now reporting the paid robotaxi miles in the quarterly. It was about 200,000 miles in December. Tesla now has 500+ cars in Austin and SF Bay Area and is doubling each month (verbally reported as the number of robotaxi and the goal to increase on earnings call). A fleet of 2,000 cars in

Antarctida, un continent de gheață învăluit în mister, joacă un rol fundamental în sistemul climatic global. Influența sa se extinde de la reglementarea curenților oceanici până la modul în care nivelul mărilor se modifică la scară planetară. Decenii la rând, cercetătorii s-au confruntat însă cu o provocare majoră: înțelegerea modului în care această regiune vastă

Tomografia computerizată, cunoscută de mulți sub numele de scanner, reprezintă o tehnologie medicală esențială, capabilă să diagnosticheze cu o precizie remarcabilă o multitudine de afecțiuni. Cu toate acestea, un studiu recent aduce în atenția publicului o perspectivă neașteptată, sugerând că aceste investigații ar putea fi responsabile pentru până la 5% din noile cazuri de cancer

De fiecare dată când apeși butonul de la toaletă, în baie se întâmplă ceva ce nu vezi, dar care contează. Apa care se rotește în vas ridică în aer un nor fin de micro-picături ce pot conține particule fecale. Cercetătorii îi spun în engleză “toilet plume” – un panou invizibil de aerosoli care poate urca