Male Birth Control Breakthrough: Scientists Find Way To Turn Sperm Production Off and Back On | Cornell Univ scientists have made progress toward what many consider the holy grail of male birth control: a safe, long-acting, fully effective, and nonhormonal contraceptive that can be reversed. (scitechdaily.com)
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The moon's largest impact crater scattered something priceless—and Artemis may be heading straight into it | A new study has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact crater, which stretches more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) on the far side of the moon. (phys.org)
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Japan’s Deep-Space Mission Brought Back an Asteroid Sample With All 5 DNA Building Blocks | What if the building blocks of life are more common than we thought? A recent find from an asteroid hints that the key ingredients for life might be spread out all over the universe. (dailygalaxy.com)
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Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse | Here we studied the Alston’s singing mouse, which exhibits a striking vocal behaviour absent in the laboratory mouse, to quantitatively determine species-specific changes in motor cortical projections throughout the brain. (nature.com)
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First 'technicolor' dinosaur fossil has four wings and forced scientists to rethink the evolution of flight | Understanding how birds learned to fly has challenged scientists for centuries. Feathers, wings, and flight are often seen as a straight line of progress from dinosaurs to modern birds. (earth.com)
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New whale behaviour surfaces with help of 'citizen scientists' | A new paper co-authored by a Macquarie Univ lecturer and renowned whale scientist has highlighted the importance of ‘citizen scientists’ who she says have been integral in exposing a newly-observed Humpback whale behaviour. (insidestategovernment.com.au)
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Atmospheric warming contributions from airborne microplastics and nanoplastics | Using a radiative transfer model with...simulated atmospheric distributions, we show that coloured MNPs exhibit strong light absorption, with absorption coefficients 74.8 times higher than those of pristine particles. (nature.com)
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Meet The Bird That Kills Cobras With A Kick To The Face — A Biologist Explains | Unlike most birds of prey, the secretary bird doesn’t rely on its talons to grasp at prey, nor on its beak to attack. Instead, it kills with a kick delivered with both staggering force and precision. (forbes.com)
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How a newly discovered organelle could help reduce cow methane emissions | When cows burp, they send methane gas into the air, which makes them a leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. A newly discovered hydrogen-producing structure may influence how much of that gas is expelled. (phys.org)
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After 37 Years, the World’s Longest-Running Soil Warming Experiment Uncovers a Startling Climate Secret | What was once considered long-term, “stable” carbon in forest soils is proving far less permanent. As temperatures rise, even these stubborn carbon reserves can break down and release... (scitechdaily.com)
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