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Sharks are ingesting drugs in the Bahamas

Nearly one third of sharks studied near the Bahamas’ Eleuthera Island were found to have caffeine, painkillers and other drugs in their bloodstreams.
sciencenews 44h ago 11°

A static electricity mystery comes to the surface

Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces
sciencenews 45h ago

To make a ‘Snowball Earth,’ sci-fi moves fast. Geology is far slower

The Day After Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Snowball Earth: Such end-of-days visions of a frozen Earth are fantastical … but can contain a snowflake of truth.
sciencenews 18h ago

A new study questions when people first reached South America

Data suggest people lived at Chile’s Monte Verde site thousands of years later than thought, challenging key “pre-Clovis” evidence. Not all agree.
sciencenews 23h ago

How warming is shifting microbial worlds

Climate change is affecting microbes, and that has implications for all life on Earth.
sciencenews 18h ago

Earth’s continental plates were moving 3.48 billion years ago

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.