Scientists believe they have discovered the site of the biggest meteorite impact ever to hit the British Isles. Evidence for the ancient, 1.2 billion-year-old meteorite strike was first discovered in 2008 near Ullapool, N.W. Scotland, by scientists from Oxford and Aberdeen Universities. The thickness and extent of the debris deposit they found suggested the impact ...
The Chinese lunar rover Chang’e 4 has found what seems to be the first indication of minerals in the Moon’s mantle. The discovery was made by researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Minerals on the Moon In early January, the Chang’e 4 lunar rover landed inside the Von Karman ...
The diamond on your finger is most likely made of recycled seabed cooked deep in the Earth. Traces of salt trapped in many diamonds show the stones are formed from ancient seabeds that became buried deep beneath the Earth’s crust, according to new research led by Macquarie University geoscientists. Most diamonds found at the Earth’s ...
In the near future, when you apply for a job or join a new team at work, a machine using artificial intelligence, rather than a human, may assess your personality traits to see if you are suitable. Realizing that people could manipulate conventional personality tests, a team of computing and psychology researchers from Macquarie, CSIRO, ...
It’s summer getaway season. According to AAA, two-thirds of American families are taking a summer vacation this year, and more than half of us are planning a road trip. But is the traffic-related air pollution caused by our road trips, as well as our daily commuting, having a negative impact on our health? Traffic-related air ...
Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world’s rivers exceed “safe” levels by up to 300 times, the first-ever global study has discovered. Researchers looked for 14 commonly used antibiotics in rivers in 72 countries across six continents and found antibiotics at 65 percent of the sites monitored. Metronidazole, which is used to treat bacterial ...
UCI Health child development specialist Sabrina E.B. Schuck — long concerned about the lack of treatments for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) — decided to seek therapies besides medications to calm and help them focus. In a first-of-its-kind randomized trial, Schuck and her colleagues discovered that therapy dogs are effective in reducing some of the symptoms of ADHD ...
A team of psychologists has found strong associations between working memory — a fundamental building block of a functioning mind — and three health-related factors: sleep, age, and depressed mood. The team also reports that each of these factors is associated with different aspects of remembering. Working memory is the part of short-term memory that ...
Researchers have found evidence that an unremarkable prehistoric burial mound near Bordeaux, in southwest France, was re-used by locals for around 2,000 years. The researchers say what drew people to the burial mound for 2 millennia remains a mystery. The Le Tumulus des Sables site was discovered by chance in 2006 when school children stumbled ...
What is enough exercise and can you do too much exercise? Both the national and international recommendations for physical activity and exercise echo each other, and that’s 150 minutes of moderate physical activity spread across most days of the week, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity. In addition to that, you should have two strengthening ...
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