UV-Stimulated Fluorescence Reveals Nearly 50 Hidden Pterodactylus Specimens
These relatives of Pterodactylus will allow paleontologists to reconstruct this flying reptile’s life history from hatchling to adulthood. Holotype specimen of Pterodactylus antiquus. Image credit: Robert S.H. Smyth & David M. Unwin, doi: 10.1080/14772019.2024.2421845. Nearly 250 years ago, the very first pterosaur fossil was found in a quarry in northern Bavaria, Germany. Dubbed Pterodactylus, this
Some People Can’t Imagine Sounds: Anauralia
Some people can’t imagine a dog barking or a police siren; songs can’t get stuck in their heads; they have no inner voices. Anauralia was proposed in 2021 University of Auckland scientists to describe the little-known condition of a silent mind. Now, the University of Auckland will host a global conference on sounds imagined in
The UnitedHealthcare Tragedy Is Why Insurance Needs to Change Now
When I was 17 I was nearly killed when a fight broke out after a high school football game and someone fired a gun. A stray bullet struck my throat, tearing through my trachea and damaging my carotid artery. This near-death experience deeply traumatized my entire family. Yet my parents couldn’t focus solely on my
Physicists Find Evidence for Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry in Decays of Baryons and Beauty Hadrons
The Standard Model of particle physics predicts an asymmetry between matter and antimatter known as charge-parity (CP) violation. But the size of this asymmetry in the Standard Model is not large enough to account for the imbalance and the asymmetry has so far been observed only in certain decays of particles called mesons. In two
Biden Pledges Huge Climate Emissions Cuts He Can’t Enforce. Here’s Why It Still Matters
CLIMATEWIRE | President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will strengthen the United States’ climate target by aiming to cut planet-warming pollution 61-66 percent by 2035, in a move that his successor is certain to disregard. The new goal marks an increase over Biden’s 2021 pledge to slash greenhouse gases 50-52 percent by 2030 over
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