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Creatine Could Offer Hope for Depression, Not Just Muscle Growth
3+ hour, 25+ min ago (560+ words) Creatine may be beneficial as more than just a muscle-building supplement, as new research is investigating whether the popular compound could hold promise as a treatment for depression. The University of Ottawa's Bassam Jeryous Fares led the new studies, described…...
Earth May Have Been Sending Microscopic Hitchhikers Toward Venus for a Billion Years
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (354+ words) A new model suggests that asteroid impacts on Earth may have occasionally launched microscopic material into space that could have reached Venus's atmosphere over billions of years. Some of this material may even have temporarily remained suspended in the planet's…...
This Intriguing Exoplanet is Just 25 Light-Years from Earth'Is Its Too Dangerous to Be Home to Life?
2+ hour, 55+ min ago (659+ words) Researchers have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet just 25 light-years from Earth'but is its precarious location on the cosmic shore too dangerous to make it a home for extraterrestrial life? In a recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the…...
Russia Has Now Lost More Troops in Ukraine Than in Every War Since World War II Combined, New Analysis Finds
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (1084+ words) By any historical measure, the human cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has entered unprecedented territory. Now, a'new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates that Russia has suffered roughly 1. 4 million battlefield casualties, including as many…...
It's Like Using a Time Machine" Unexpected Cosmic 'Life After Death' Discovered on Planets Around a Burned-Out Star
19+ hour, 34+ min ago (682+ words) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed that the fate of planets after the death of their host star may be surprisingly warm, according to new research from the University of St Andrews. The JWST observations offer a possible…...
This Strange Exoplanet Has Revealed "the Clearest Evidence To Date" of Something Many Astronomers Suspected
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (664+ words) An exoplanet is exerting a magnetic influence on its host star in a manner opposite to what astronomers normally observe, according to researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC). In a recent paper published in Science, IAA-CSIC researchers…...
A Mysterious Circular Structure Buried Under the North Sea Has Revealed New Evidence of an Ancient Cataclysmic Event
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (550+ words) More than two decades have passed since geologists first identified an unusual circular structure buried beneath the North Sea, and now scientists say new evidence could finally solve the mystery. New research has confirmed that the feature, known as the…...
Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruptions Aren't Caused by What Scientists Used to Think They Were
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (277+ words) Yellowstone and other volcanic supereruptions may work completely differently than previously assumed, drawing magma from a wide, shallow pool near the surface rather than from a deep plume, according to an international team of researchers. The new work on volcanic…...
Scientists Used Water to Uncover a Strange, 'Invisible' Quantum Phenomenon That Remained Elusive for Decades
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (646+ words) A team of physicists set out to recreate a 60-year-old quantum mystery using a large water tank. While their experiment produced the expected results, it also revealed an unexpected behavior in the water. The experiment centered on the Aharonov'Bohm effect,…...
Ancient Romans Buried Secret Coin Hoards Across Europe and Never Retrieved Them'Now Archaeologists Finally Know Why
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (635+ words) A longstanding archaeological riddle involves the phenomenon of coin hoarding in the ancient Roman Empire'why were massive stashes of wealth often buried, and seemingly never retrieved? To answer this question, Babe-Bolyai University researchers Adrian-Daniel Stan and Cristian G'zda leveraged one…...