Gigantic Swiss Atom Smasher Breaks World Record
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
The world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has set a new world record for colliding two beams of more particles together than ever before.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland, has been operating since 2009, slowly ramping up its power levels and the intensity of its particle beams. Beam intensity is measured in luminosity, which corresponds to how many particles — in this case protons — are packed into each beam.
[Read More]High-Tech Sleuthing Cracks Mystery of Death Valley's Moving Rocks
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
The first witnesses to an enduring natural mystery are an engineer, a biologist and a planetary scientist who met thanks to a remote weather station.
This odd group has captured the first video footage of Death Valley's sailing stones creeping across Racetrack Playa. For a century, these eerie rocks and their long, graceful trails have stumped visitors and scientists. The boulders of black dolomite appear to move on their own, sliding uphill across the playa's flat lakebed.
[Read More]How Seals Sleep With Half A Brain
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
When a seal goes to sleep in the water, it shuts down just half of its brain at a time, much like a snoozing whale or dolphin. Now researchers say they know more about the chemicals behind the amazing ability.
"Seals sleep this way while they're in water, but they sleep like humans while on land. Our research may explain how this unique biological phenomenon happens," University of Toronto researcher John Peever said.
[Read More]How Short Bursts of Activity Can Get You Fit
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
If you think you don't have time to exercise, there's good news: Short bouts of activity — as brief as a few minutes each — may still have health benefits, as long as they add up to 30 minutes a day total, recent research suggests.
Traditionally, experts have recommended that people exercise for at least 10 minutes at a time, at a moderate pace. But these recommendations are based on earlier studies that asked people to remember how much time they spent being active each day.
[Read More]Iron Age Celtic Woman Wearing Fancy Clothes Buried in This 'Tree Coffin' in Switzerland
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
After studying the 2,200-year-old burial, archaeologists learned that the woman was about 40 years old when she died and had probably performed little physical labor during her lifetime. Moreover, an analysis of her teeth suggested this woman liked to eat starchy or sweetened foods.
Even her coffin was remarkable; the woman was buried in a hollowed-out tree trunk, which still had bark on its exterior. [In Photos: Ancient Tomb of a Celtic Prince Uncovered]
[Read More]Scientists Find a Spot Where No Life Can Survive. That's Bad News for Alien Hunters.
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
Unearthly greens and yellows color the scorching-hot landscape surrounding the Dallol volcano in northern Ethiopia. This alien-like world is filled with hydrothermal pools that are some of the most extreme environments on the planet — and some of them seem to be completely devoid of life, according to a new study.
Different life-forms on our planet have adapted to survive under some pretty harsh conditions, places that are superhot, superacidic or supersalty, to name a few, said study senior author Purificación López-García, the research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
[Read More]The Best Heart Rate Monitor Watches
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
Exercising in your target heart rate zone gets you the most bang for the buck in your workout. But who wants to stop to take his or her pulse during a long run?
Heart rate monitor watches do the job for you. These monitors include a straplike transmitter that goes around your chest to measure your heart rate, and a watch for your wrist that wirelessly connects to the chest strap and displays your workout data.
[Read More]This $35 bowl sold at a Connecticut yard sale is worth $500,000
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
A small porcelain bowl bought for $35 at a yard sale in Connecticut turned out to be a rare, 15th-century Chinese artifact estimated to be worth between $300,000 and $500,000.
Last year, after purchasing the bowl, the buyer was intrigued enough by its appearance to ask experts at the Sotheby's auction house to evaluate it, according to The Associated Press. Only then did he find out that his yard-sale buy was an "
[Read More]Will Hurricane Florence Strengthen into a Rare Category 5 Storm?
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Arica Deslauriers
Hurricane Florence, currently a Category 4 storm, may strengthen to a Category 5 hurricane before weakening again on its approach toward the North or South Carolina coastlines.
But regardless of the wind speeds when the hurricane makes landfall — expected on Thursday (Sept. 13) — it will bring with it massive amounts of moisture and hazards for anyone in its path, meteorologists say.
According to the National Hurricane's Center (NHC) 5 a.
[Read More]World's Oldest Bedding Discovered in Cave
Posted on March 1, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
The oldest known bedding — sleeping mats made of mosquito-repellant evergreens that are about 77,000 years old — has been discovered in a South African cave.
This use of medicinal plants, along with other artifacts at the cave, helps reveal how creative these early peoples were, researchers said.
An international team of archaeologists discovered the stack of ancient beds at Sibudu, a cave in a sandstone cliff in South Africa.
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