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If you lived among the ancient Maya, let’s hope you liked your fish super salty.
Archaeologists working at a former Maya salt mine near the coast in Belize say that they’ve found evidence of the fairly large-scale production of salted fish for trade at markets further inland. In the jungle, where seafood was a luxury and food wouldn’t keep well, the salty fish could have been a valuable commodity.
It’s further evidence that producing ...read more
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Scientists are making science fiction a reality. For the first time, three people have read each other’s minds, researchers report in a new study recently posted to the preprint server arXiv. The new interface combines noninvasive brain imaging and brain stimulation to let multiple people communicate through their thoughts. Its creators say the fresh tech could allow humans to solve problems using a “social network” of connected brai ...read more
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If you’re a fish, it sucks to have a hole ripped in your mouth by a hook.
Actually, researchers found, it sucks less.
New research out today in the Journal of Experimental Biology found that fish can’t suck up food as well after having a hole poked in their mouth by a fishing hook.
The team, led by Tim Higham at UC-Riverside, focused on marine shiner perch for their study. These perch are a common target for anglers and belong to a broader group of f ...read more
Greenhouses and food production will be an important component of any future martian settlement. Credit: NASA/CASE FOR MARS
A visit to Mars is almost guaranteed within the next decade or so, with everyone from NASA to warring tech billionaires setting their sights on the Red Planet. And long-term occupation may not be much farther behind.
But before we do, there are many obstacles to overcome, some highly technical. But one of them is a challenge humans have been tackling almost since our ance ...read more
This visualization compares the orbits of “The Goblin” and other, similar objects.(Credit: Illustration by Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science)
Astronomers have found a dwarf planet out beyond Neptune called “The Goblin” because of its initial discovery around Halloween. The Goblin, officially named 2015 TG387, joins other small objects far out in our solar system, and it adds to a tantalizing theory about anothe ...read more
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