Science

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has recently passed through a channel in which pure sulfur rocks litter the ground, and scientists aren’t sure why. In July, GNN reported how the rover had found a strange white stone, broke it open, and found sulfur crystals, shocking the rover’s science team back at NASA’s…

Rising directly out of the water of a lake in the Finish Lakeland region, tall granite cliffs are believed to have acted as a musical element in Neolithic Finns’ socio-religious activities. That’s because their unique shape, and boundary shared with the water, create powerful single echoes back at whomever made a…

Could a multivitamin boost the health and resilience of coral reefs? Preliminary testing says that, like humans, these critical ecosystems rely on nutrients in the environment surrounding them. Researchers at the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have been lab testing nutrient-infused tiles to determine whether they would boost the immune…

Despite hundreds of scientific illustrations, no one knew for sure what a saber-toothed cat actually looked like, until now. As is sometimes the case, Siberian prospectors looking for mammoth tusks, likely illicitly, have uncovered another incredible Pleistocene mammal frozen in permafrost—in this instance, a “saber-tooth kitten.” Belonging to the species Homotherium…

At the University of Houston, online video gamers are the focus of a new paper on productivity at work, and the results may not be what you expect. The paper reports that—contrary to popular belief—massively multiplayer online gamers have their skills in the workplace enriched by those seemingly endless hours erroneously…

Researchers have developed an AI-powered model that can determine in 10 seconds during surgery if any part of a cancerous brain tumor that could be removed remains. The technology, called FastGlioma, outperformed conventional methods for identifying what remains of a tumor by a wide margin, according to the research team led…

There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good—strengthening muscles and bolstering our bones, blood vessels, and immune system—but now, MIT engineers have found that it also has benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of biochemical signals called…