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1 week ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a local event or online on Monday On a mountaintop in Chile sits the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a giant telescope equipped with the world’s largest digital camera. In just a few days, the world will get to see its first-ever images and videos.
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1 week ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane cycle Researchers have discovered three new sea spider species that are powered by methane deep beneath the ocean.
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1 week ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing seven species of pangolin, often poached for their scales and meat, as endangered Federal officials have proposed declaring the pangolin endangered, a move that would help protect what is often considered the “most trafficked mammal” in the world. Pangolins are adorable, but they’re not exactly cuddly creatures.
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1 week ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
Not only are semicolons evidently becoming more rare, but young people are less aware of how to use them, according to a survey The semicolon has long been a divisive punctuation mark. Since its first reported use published by the Italian printer and humanist Aldus Manutius the Elder in the 1490s, people have both sung its praises and argued for its demise.
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1 week ago | 
retractionwatch.com | Sara Hashemi
A journal has retracted 16 papers after a whistleblower flagged it for “irregularities” in peer review, among other concerns. The Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, a Springer Nature title, published the papers between 2021 and 2024. The articles covered research ranging from studies of the work of Haruki Murakami and Kazakh literature to English reading fluency and the teaching competence of parents of children with cochlear implants.
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1 week ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
New research suggests long-billed curlews keep an ear out for warnings from prairie dogs in order to hide from predators and protect their nests Prairie dogs are chatty creatures. The animals have a variety of calls to alert each other to the presence of predators, each of them distinct based on the nature of the threat.
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1 week ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
Researchers could identify people with almost 97 percent accuracy based on 24 hours of their recorded breathing patterns, and they also found links to a person’s mental and physical condition Your fingerprints, the ridges on your tongue and the patterns on your irises are all unique to you. Now, researchers say your breathing pattern over the course of a day could be added to that list.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Sara Hashemi
2 hours agoHow to Cut Your Biological Age by Up to 16 Years: Make This Tweak to Your Daily WalkA big new study discovered a simple way busy entrepreneurs can squeeze even more health benefits out of their daily walk. Thanks to the stress of building a business, entrepreneurs often face an impossible dilemma, founder and early Facebook employee Randi Zuckerberg once joked.
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2 weeks ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
Two partial skeletons housed in a Mongolia museum were reexamined by researchers and found to represent a previously unknown species A newly identified species of dinosaur is helping researchers clarify the still-mysterious evolution of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex. Paleontologists reexamined two partial skeletons that had been sitting in a collection at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences for decades.
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2 weeks ago | 
smithsonianmag.com | Sara Hashemi
With the help of gene-edited axolotls, researchers have gotten one step closer to enabling human limb regeneration Axolotls have a superpower: The adorable, perpetually smiling salamanders have the ability to regrow missing body parts in just a few weeks. Now, in a new study that scientists say could one day help humans regenerate limbs, researchers have revealed how the animals pull this off.
