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Hurricane Helene Deaths Won&#39;t Stop for 15 Years
Hurricane Helene Deaths
Won't Stop for 15 Years
new study
Oct 2, 2024 12:15 PM CDT

Hurricane Helene Deaths Won't Stop for 15 Years

Study finds a staggering number of excess deaths happen in years after a tropical cyclone

(Newser) - Hurricane Helene's death toll has been rising for a week. It won't fully stop for 15 years, or so suggests a study published Wednesday in Nature . The New York Times describes the findings as so staggering to the researchers that they spent years checking their math. What they...

Scientists Unravel Why Everest Keeps Growing
Scientists Unravel Why
Everest Keeps Growing
new study
Sep 30, 2024 1:50 PM CDT

Scientists Unravel Why Everest Keeps Growing

The merging of two ancient rivers set off an ecological chain reaction, study says

(Newser) - Scientists and those adept at trivia contests can tell you that Mount Everest stands at 29,032 feet. Give it enough time, however, and that answer will tick higher, and a new study in Nature Geoscience sheds new insight into why, reports the Guardian . It has to do with the...

Want to Slow Down the Aging Process? Take a Trip
Odd Bonus of Travel:
It May Slow Aging
NEW STUDY
Sep 30, 2024 4:00 AM CDT

Odd Bonus of Travel: It May Slow Aging

Study suggests positive travel experiences put the brakes on physical entropy

(Newser) - An unexpected perk of travel? It may also involve a side trip to the fountain of youth. That's what a new theoretical study out of Australia's Edith Cowan University published in the Journal of Travel Research suggests. Per the Washington Post , the study sought to see what effects...

Researchers 'Surprised' at 'Period Poverty' Among Youth

New study: 1/3 of teens, young adults can't access tampons, pads, other menstrual products

(Newser) - The Parents portal recently called it "the one back-to-school item teens shouldn't have to buy"—and while many agree that kids should have easy access to period products (think tampons, maxi pads, menstrual cups, etc.), a significant number of them don't. Citing new research from...

What Scientists Learned From 3.6K-Year-Old Cheese
World's Oldest Cheese
Has Secrets to Tell
NEW STUDY
Sep 26, 2024 11:27 AM CDT

World's Oldest Cheese Has Secrets to Tell

Analysis of 3.6K-year-old cheese reveals spread of kefir bacteria from China's Xinjiang region

(Newser) - In the 1990s, archaeologists peered into the graves of 3,600-year-old mummies in a desert in northwest China's Xinjiang region and found a strange substance smeared on their heads and necks. It turned out to be the oldest cheese ever found, and it's taught researchers quite a bit...

Franklin Expedition Captain Was Eaten by the Crew
Franklin Expedition Captain
Was Eaten by the Crew
NEW STUDY
Sep 25, 2024 11:35 AM CDT

Franklin Expedition Captain Was Eaten by the Crew

Jawbone traced to James Fitzjames shows cut marks indicating cannibalism

(Newser) - James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus, penned the last known message from Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to the Northwest Passage. The June 1847 note told of the polar explorer's death, bringing the number of dead to 24. The remaining 105 sailors—forced to abandon Franklin's...

Years Before Physics Theory Emerged, Van Gogh Painted It
Modern-Day Physicists Marvel
at Van Gogh's Eye
new study
Sep 23, 2024 10:15 AM CDT

Modern-Day Physicists Marvel at Van Gogh's Eye

The Starry Night accurately depicts the flow of energy

(Newser) - In the 1940s, a Russian mathematician named Andrey Kolmogorov laid out an important law of fluid dynamics that explains how energy moves through air and water, per Smithsonian Magazine . But if "Kolmogorov's theory of turbulence" sounds a little dense, you could instead cast a glance at Vincent Van...

That Dog Walk Could Send You to the ER

Injuries on such strolls have been on the rise over the past 2 decades, for kids and adults

(Newser) - The cuddles. The loyalty. The worshipful eyes. There's a lot of joy in having a dog, not the least of which is heading out for a brisk walk—and therein lies a peril some dog people should pay more attention to. Over the past 20 years, injuries related to...

Do Your Kids Glare at Their Plate? It May Be in the Genes

Researchers say picky eaters may be more nature than nurture

(Newser) - Have a fussy young eater at home, or know someone who does? Many parents will vouch that their own kids are similarly finicky when mealtime rolls around, and now new research suggests that pickiness may be genetic—meaning refusing to consume one's broccoli or glass of milk may be...

Black Hole Jets Shoot Plasma for 23M Light-Years

Porphyrion jets are the longest ever seen

(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a record-breaking pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted—about as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined up end-to-end, the AP reports. The discovery, made using images from a European radio...

Poet's Long-Lost Body Found in Notre Dame Dig

Joachim Du Bellay died in 1560 but his coffin wasn't found in 1758 excavation

(Newser) - Archaeological digs after the fire that devastated Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019 cracked what the French media calls a centuries-old "cold case." The French National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research—INRAP—revealed Tuesday that researchers believe they have found the body of Joachim Du Bellay, a Renaissance poet...

Research Debunks an Easter Island Myth
Research Rejects Popular
Idea About Easter Island
new study
Sep 16, 2024 12:58 PM CDT

Research Rejects Popular Idea About Easter Island

Inhabitants didn't trigger their own ecologically driven collapse, study suggests

(Newser) - A new study puts what a researcher calls the "final nail in the coffin" regarding a longstanding narrative about Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island. Researchers who examined the preserved DNA of ancient islanders found no evidence that the population suffered a sudden and steep decline, reports CNN . That runs...

Stone Age Grave Used for Centuries Held Mostly Males
Stone Age Mass Grave
Gives Up Some of Its Secrets
new study
Sep 11, 2024 4:05 PM CDT

Stone Age Mass Grave Gives Up Some of Its Secrets

It contained mostly male remains

(Newser) - A Stone Age mass grave has given up some of its secrets thanks to DNA. A team of French archaeologists and paleo-geneticists analyzed the genomes of 37 of the 75 individuals that had been exhumed from the burial site at Aven de la Boucle in the Languedoc region. Radiocarbon dating...

Steamship Sunk by 'Small Hole' Found 168 Years Later

Le Lyonnais went down off the Massachusetts coast in 1856, claiming 116 lives

(Newser) - There are echoes of the Titanic in the story of Le Lyonnais' demise. The English-built steamship designed to carry people and mail across the Atlantic was heading from America to Europe on its first return voyage on Nov. 2, 1856, when it collided with a sailing vessel. The ship suffered...

Battle of Waterloo Dig Turns Up 15 Limbs

Along with the remains of horses

(Newser) - At least 20,000 men lost their lives in the battle of Waterloo—and a handful of newly uncovered limbs belonging to a few of them is exposing the "carnage and horror" of the 1815 battle, reports the Guardian . The Duke of Wellington led the defeat of Napoleon, and...

This Slippery Eel Can Escape Predator&#39;s Stomach in a Minute
This Eel Can Pull Off
an 'Astonishing' Houdini
NEW STUDY
Sep 10, 2024 1:28 PM CDT

This Eel Can Pull Off an 'Astonishing' Houdini

Japanese eels can escape from a predator's stomach in less than a minute, researchers say

(Newser) - That eels are slippery is no surprise, but that they can literally slip out of a predator's stomach is "truly astonishing," according to researchers, who've recorded footage of the first-of-its-kind behavior, allowing for escape in less than a minute. "It sounds like the plot of...

New Species of Tarantula Is Found in Arizona

Aphonopelma jacobii is the 30th found in the US

(Newser) - Introducing Aphonopelma jacobii, a new species of tarantula discovered in the mountains of southeastern Arizona. A news release at EurekAlert has a photo of the creature, which has "fiery red hairs on its abdomen" and is the 30th species ever found in the US. Researchers are happy with the...

Scientists Were Tracking a Shark. Then the Data Got Weird
Scientists Were Tracking
a Shark. Then It Got Eaten
in case you missed it
Sep 8, 2024 3:30 PM CDT

Scientists Were Tracking a Shark. Then It Got Eaten

They say they have first evidence of predator eating a porbeagle shark

(Newser) - Researchers captured and tagged a pregnant porbeagle shark near Cape Cod in October 2020. The 7-foot shark had two trackers attached: one was a geolocator; the other was a pop-off satellite archival tag (PSAT) that relayed info about water temperature and depth. As the scientists write in a paper published...

Food Dye Used in Doritos Offers a &#39;Jaw-Dropping&#39; Perk
Food Dye Used in Doritos
Offers a 'Jaw-Dropping' Perk
in case you missed it
Sep 8, 2024 11:30 AM CDT

Food Dye Used in Doritos Offers a 'Jaw-Dropping' Perk

Tartrazine, aka 'Yellow No. 5,' creates see-through skin on mice to help scientists peer inside their bodies

(Newser) - To many consumers, "Yellow No. 5" is best known as the food dye that adds an orange-yellow tinge to snacks and drinks like Doritos, Gatorade, and M&Ms. To a team from Stanford, however, tartrazine, the chemical found in that dye, recently served as a window into living creatures'...

Want to Save Babies? Protect Bats
In Bat Die-Off, Human
Infants Also Paid the Price
NEW STUDY
Sep 7, 2024 8:00 AM CDT

In Bat Die-Off, Human Infants Also Paid the Price

New research shows that when bats died of fungal disease, infants also died, possibly due to pesticide

(Newser) - When a deadly fungal disease from Europe spread to bats in the United States, killing off colonies of the creatures, one scientist wanted to see what such a bat die-off would mean in other ways. What the University of Chicago's Eyal Frank found: that in counties where infected bats...

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