<![CDATA[Science News from NFB-Newsline.]]> http://www.nfbnewslineonline.net en-us Copyright 2023 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss nfbnewsline@nfb.org <![CDATA[Fish can recognize themselves in photos, further evidence they may be self-aware Self-awareness may be more widespread among animals than we once thought By Betsy Mason]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_15/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_15..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[In the wake of history's deadliest mass extinction, ocean life may have flourished Marine ecosystems were back in action just a million years after the Permian-Triassic die-off By Nikk Ogasa]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_16/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_16..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Cockatoos can tell when they need more than one tool to swipe a snack Besides chimps, the birds are the only known nonhumans to use a tool kit By Erin Garcia de Jesús]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_14/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_14..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[The standard model of particle physics passed one of its strictest tests yet Electrons' magnetism confirms particle physics' most precise prediction By Emily Conover]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_12/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_12..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Climate 'teleconnections' may link droughts and fires across continents New research could help countries forecast and collaborate to deal with dry spells and fires By Nikk Ogasa]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_11/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_11..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[The Kuiper Belt's dwarf planet Quaoar hosts an impossible ring The ring lies outside a typical, mathematically determined distance from the small world Far-out ring By Lisa Grossman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_13/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_13..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Good with tools?]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_17/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_17..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Readers discuss net-zero carbon emissions and glass frogs By Science News Staff]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_18/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_18..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Psychedelics may improve mental health by getting inside nerve cells What matters is on the inside - of neurons By McKenzie Prillaman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_9/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_09..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Rapid melting is eroding vulnerable cracks in Thwaites Glacier's underbelly Scientists have now explored a hard-to-reach ocean cavity under a crucial glacier in Antarctica By Douglas Fox]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_10/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_10..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[How fingerprints form was a mystery - until now A theory proposed by mathematician Alan Turing in the 1950s helps explain the process By McKenzie Prillaman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_4/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_04..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[A newfound 'croakless' frog may communicate via touch The animal might use spines on its throat to recognize potential mates instead of calls By McKenzie Prillaman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_5/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_05..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[76 percent of well-known insects fall outside protected areas The borders of many conservation sites barely overlap with species' ranges By Freda Kreier]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_7/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_07..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Hominids used stone tool kits to butcher animals earlier than once thought The makers of these versatile implements, which enabled a well-rounded diet, remain a mystery By Bruce Bower]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_8/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_08..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Here's why icicles made from pure water don't form ripples The skewers grow drop by drop instead of via a coat of water like their salty counterparts By Emily Conover]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_6/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_06..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Orca moms baby their adult sons.]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_3/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_03..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Ghost Particle' chronicles the neutrino's discovery and what's left to learn Author James Riordon talks with Science News about the new book By Erin Wayman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_1/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_01..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than astronomers had thought Gamma rays reveal the galaxy's star-making power By Ken Croswell]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19427_1_2/Science_News.2023_03_11.All_Content.Article_02..mp3 Podcasts Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:50:00 -0400 <![CDATA[50 years ago, Earth's chances of contacting E.T. looked slim Excerpt from the February 24, 1973 issue of Science News By Erin Garcia de Jesús]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_6/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_06..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Trauma distorts our sense of time and self.]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_7/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_07..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[A new metric of extinction risk considers how cultures care for species When local cultures are threatened, that puts their important species at risk By Jude Coleman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_8/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_08..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[The deadly VEXAS syndrome is more common than doctors thought The inflammatory illness may affect nearly 1 in 4,000 older men in the United States By Meghan Rosen]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_9/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_09..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Are your cats having fun or fighting?]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_10/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_10..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Chemical residue reveals ancient Egyptians' mummy-making mixtures Mummification specialists had distinct concoctions for specific parts of the body By Bruce Bower]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_11/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_11..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Earth's inner core may be reversing its rotation Such a turnaround might sound bizarre, but isn't likely to have profound effects on life By Nikk Ogasa]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_12/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_12..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[These shape-shifting devices melt and re-form thanks to magnetic fields Gallium plus magnetism equals something straight out of Terminator 2 By McKenzie Prillaman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_13/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_13..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Enceladus is blanketed in a thick layer of snow The fluff suggests the moon's famous plume was once more active than it is today By Lisa Grossman]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_14/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_14..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Water is weird.]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_15/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_15..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Fossils suggest early primates lived in a once-swampy Arctic The animals probably moved north as the planet warmed, to a new habitat opening near the poles By Freda Kreier]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_16/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_16..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[How plant 'muscles' fold up a mimosa leaf fast Specially shaped cells work like motors to close mimosa leaflets like a book By Susan Milius]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_17/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_17..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Procrastination may harm your health.]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_18/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_18..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Prairie voles can find partners just fine without the 'love hormone' oxytocin The hormone was thought to be essential to how social bonds form between the animals By Darren Incorvaia]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_19/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_19..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[How the science of rocks is like the science of humans What field of science could be more solid than geology?]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_20/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_20..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Readers ask about fungal lung infections By Science News Staff]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_21/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_21..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[We Are Electric' delivers the shocking story of bioelectricity The book chronicles an underexplored area of science and how it could advance medicine By Meghan Rosen]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_4/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_04..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Some 'friendly' bacteria backstab their algal pals.]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_3/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_03..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars?]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_1/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_01..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[Physicists stored data in quantum holograms made of twisted light By James R. Riordon]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_2/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_02..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400 <![CDATA[This dinosaur might have used its feet to snag prey in midair like modern hawks How well Microraptor flew is debated, but its toe pads are giving clues to how it behaved By Derek Smith]]> http://216.230.123.8:8888/waves/gen/wv__749_19413_1_5/Science_News.2023_02_25.All_Content.Article_05..mp3 Podcasts Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:17:00 -0400