By Clare Wilson Less like an eel, more like an otterPolymaths-lab.com Sperm swim differently to how we thought. Rather than undulating their tails symmetrically, like an eel, they have a lopsided wiggle that combines with spinning about their long axis to give an overall forward motion. “The asymmetry cancels out because of the rotation,” says…
By Leah Crane The CHIME radio telescope in British Columbia, CanadaCHIME We may finally know where fast radio bursts (FRBs) come from. These mysterious flashes of radio waves from space have now been spotted in our galaxy and appear to be connected to neutron stars called magnetars that have powerful magnetic fields. FRBs are powerful…
believe that withdrawal from our usual environments and daily stimuli has left people with a void of “inspiration,” forcing our subconscious minds to draw more heavily on themes from our past.National Geographic reports that many research groups have been studying this and they have all noted similar findings; that pandemic dreams are being colored by…
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It's not shocking to see cases of the flu jump up during respiratory virus season. But there's been enough talk about the so-called "super flu" swirling around that it's fair to wonder what's going on out there. “Flu has really taken off in the last week in this country,” William Schaffner, MD, an infectious disease
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