Two days after NASA’s Juno spacecraft streaked over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, pictures of the solar system’s largest, most powerful storm, have been transmitted to Earth, giving eager scientist close-up views of the 10,000-mile-wide anticyclone where 400-mph winds have been howling for at least 187 years and possibly much longer.

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Submitted on July 12th 2017 by sjvn with 6 comments

Well, here’s some crummy news: Researchers at UC-Berkeley say they’ve made a “really novel” discovery that smelling food before eating it could cause weight gain. In a Cell Metabolism article published last week, the team writes that the body’s sense of smell seems tied to its decision to store fat instead of burn it off.

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Submitted on July 11th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Australian chemistry teacher James Kennedy wanted to dispel the myth that chemicals are bad for us. He created an ingredient list for natural products, like the banana above, to show that there are many chemicals in our food's natural flavours and colours.

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Submitted on July 8th 2017 by kxh with 2 comments

How a criminal mastermind could “set the whole world’s system of mass into disarray."

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Submitted on July 9th 2017 by CatLady

I'm struggling to figure out the physics here.This novel teapot of Chinese orgin has two chambers. You can see that when you look down the spout: So put regular tea in one chamber and poisoned tea in the other. Pour as needed.

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Submitted on July 7th 2017 by archmagician with 2 comments

Memories, points of view and the self

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Submitted on July 12th 2017 by Gozzin

A computer program that can edit videos of people speaking to realistically make it look like they said something else has been created, raising fears of clips being tampered with online.

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Submitted on July 13th 2017 by Splitfish with 1 comments

Over 120 countries adopted the United Nations’ first-ever global ban on nuclear weapons Friday, in a significant milestone in the push against nuclear proliferation. Except for one thing: None of the countries that actually have nuclear weapons adopted the treaty, so it doesn’t technically apply to them.

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Submitted on July 8th 2017 by TNY

A journalist exploring psychedelics’ therapeutic potential participates in a ceremony of the Native American Church. By John Horgan. (July 5, 2017)

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Submitted on July 8th 2017 by AdelleChattre

An Air Canada pilot mistakenly started to land on a SFO taxiway, where four fully-loaded planes were waiting to take off, rather than the runway.

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Submitted on July 11th 2017 by iamsanchez

Anxiety over “wind-turbine syndrome” stems from a decades-old misunderstanding of inaudible noise. By Philip Jaekl. (June 19, 2017)

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Submitted on July 9th 2017 by AdelleChattre

A new memoir lends a fresh perspective to one of the great mysteries of modern linguistics.

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Submitted on July 12th 2017 by LisMan

Escaping methane gas has blown at least two new holes in the Siberian tundra in the past few months, according to eyewitness accounts to the Siberian Times and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Reindeer herders northwest of the village of Seyakha in Siberia's far north reported seeing an eruption of fire and smoke on the morning of June 28 — an event caught on seismic sensors at 11 a.m. local time, according to The Siberian Times. Scientists visiting the site photographed a fresh crater blown into the banks of a river.

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Submitted on July 7th 2017 by grandtheftsoul with 1 comments

If it works in humans, the compound could help reverse memory decline in patients.

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Submitted on July 12th 2017 by tranxene

A femur discovered in a cave in southwestern Germany has provided researchers with firm evidence that a small population of humans left Africa and then vanished, long before the big migration that saw humans populate the globe.

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Submitted on July 10th 2017 by hiihii

What is actually happening when you can't think of the word you mean? It's called Tip of the Tongue syndrome and yes, it's been studied.

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Submitted on July 11th 2017 by gladsdotter

The torrent of snow in this incredible picture is nearly half a mile long.

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Submitted on July 7th 2017 by baron778

Discovery has major implications for hunt for alien life on the red planet as it means any evidence is likely to be buried deep underground. By Ian Sample.

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Submitted on July 8th 2017 by AdelleChattre

The team that discovered gravitational waves put their data online. Now an independent group of researchers claims that they’ve found what might be a serious problem.

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Submitted on July 10th 2017 by kxh with 1 comments

In “Through the Shadowlands,” Julie Rehmeyer explores an illness that, in her words, “science doesn’t understand.”

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Submitted on July 11th 2017 by gladsdotter with 2 comments