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Here is your customized Science X Newsletter for week 16:
![]() | New pollen-replacing food for honey bees brings hope for survivalScientists have unveiled a new food source designed to sustain honey bee colonies indefinitely without natural pollen. |
![]() | Half of the universe's hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been foundAstronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In fact, more than half of normal matter—half of the 15% of the universe's matter that is not dark matter—cannot be accounted for in the glowing stars and gas we see. |
![]() | Key to the high aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer identifiedPancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates—only 10% after five years. One of the factors contributing to its aggressiveness is its tumor microenvironment, known as the stroma, which makes up the majority of the tumor mass and consists of a network of proteins and different non-tumor cells. Among these, fibroblasts play a key role, helping tumor cells to grow and increasing their resistance to drugs. |
![]() | Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on MarsResearch from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing scientists closer to an answer on whether the red planet was ever capable of supporting life. |
![]() | Archaeologists measure and compare size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequalityIn a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the world, covering the last 10,000 years. They found that while inequality is widespread throughout human history, it's not inevitable, nor is it expressed to the same degree at every place and time. |
![]() | Earth's magnetic pole shift: Sunscreen, clothes and caves may have helped Homo sapiens survive 41,000 years agoAncient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of Michigan research shows. |
![]() | Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black holeA team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern Observatory, has confirmed the existence of a lone black hole. In their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, the group describes how they studied newer data regarding an object they had spotted several years ago to confirm its identity. |
![]() | An evolutionary algorithmic phase transition 2.6 billion years ago may have sparked the emergence of eukaryotic cellsAn international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shedding light on the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth: the origin of the eukaryotic cell. |
![]() | A slowly spinning universe could solve the Hubble tensionA new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy suggests the universe may rotate—just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles. |
![]() | The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to TunisiaResearchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during the Neolithic, spreading through Europe alongside the adoption of agriculture. |
![]() | Red, pink or white, all roses were once yellow says genomic analysisRed roses, the symbol of love, were likely yellow in the past, indicates a large genomic analysis by researchers from Beijing Forestry University, China. Roses of all colors, including white, red, pink, and peach, belong to the genus Rosa, which is a member of the Rosaceae family. |
![]() | Finding friendship at first whiff: How scent influences our choice of friendsThe room is crowded and noisy. There are conversations all around, and the residual smell of popcorn and beer hangs in the air. Yet two women meeting for the first time can judge within minutes whether they have the potential to be friends—guided as much by smell as any other sense, according to new Cornell psychology research. |
![]() | Commonly prescribed medications for high blood pressure have unexpected side effectsCardiovascular diseases are the world's leading cause of death, and high blood pressure, or hypertension, affects more than 1 billion people globally, with most living in low- and middle-income countries. |
![]() | Conservative Americans consistently distrust science, survey findsConservative people in America appear to distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview, but also, compared to liberal Americans, their trust is also lower in fields that contribute to economic growth and productivity. Short interventions aimed at strengthening trust have little effect. This is apparent from new research by social psychologists at the University of Amsterdam, which has now been published in Nature Human Behavior. |
![]() | Bite-sized chunks of chicken with the texture of whole meat can be grown in the labA bioreactor that mimics a circulatory system can deliver nutrients and oxygen to artificial tissue, enabling the production of over 10 grams of chicken muscle for cultured meat applications. These results are published in Trends in Biotechnology. |
![]() | Astronomers detect strongest sign yet of possible life on a planet beyond our ownAstronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious. |
![]() | Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contaminationA team of biologists working at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a research museum in the Netherlands, has found evidence of caddisfly larvae using microplastics to build their casings as far back as the 1970s. |
![]() | Your cells can 'hear': Uncovering the relationship between life and soundThere's a sensation that you experience—near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert—from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your brain and ears perceive it, but your cells may also. |
![]() | Footprints of tail-clubbed armored dinosaurs found for the first timeFor the first time, footprints of armored dinosaurs with tail clubs have been identified, following discoveries made in the Canadian Rockies. The 100-million-year-old fossilized footprints were found at sites at both Tumbler Ridge, BC, and northwestern Alberta. |
![]() | Tiny cut marks on animal bone fossils reveal that human ancestors were in Romania 1.95 million years agoLooking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, the V-shaped lines were clearly there on the fossil. There was no mistaking what they meant. |




















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