The caudate nuclei, parts of the brain affected by Huntington’s disease KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The genetic mutation that causes Huntington’s disease, a devastating brain condition, may have been selected for by evolution because it also leads to higher intelligence in people’s childhood and 20s. This idea may not only […]
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Japanese knotweed damages buildings and construction sites if left unchecked National Highways has enlisted three dogs to sniff out the weed on the M25 By Shivali Best For Mailonline Published: 13:30 GMT, 22 November 2023 | Updated: 13:30 GMT, 22 November 2023 It has been growing uncontrollably across Britain since […]
A handful of companies have begun to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and store it underground in an effort to fight climate change. But challenges remain in ramping up the technology to a large enough scale that will make it affordable and effective enough to start to halt […]
WASHINGTON — While NASA seeks to maintain an uninterrupted human presence in low Earth orbit, an agency official said a short-term gap between the International Space Station and commercial successors would not be “the end of the world.” NASA’s current approach to its future in LEO counts on supporting development […]
African penguins at the Zoomarine theme park in Italy Cristina Pilenga African penguins may identify their partners by the patterns of spots the birds sport on their chests. This is the first time researchers have pinned down a feature that any bird uses for visual recognition. The dots on African […]
Space travel throws up a slew of problems regarding sex, including what would happen to a baby if it was conceived in space. But even if they remain sexually abstinent during a stint away from Earth, male astronauts may encounter trouble in the bedroom after they return home. In experiments […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion. In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. […]
WASHINGTON — NASA expects that a Mars smallsat mission will be on the first launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn launch vehicle within a year, although with some risk about whether the rocket will be ready in time. NASA selected Blue Origin in February to launch the Escape and Plasma […]