Today's Science News
September 14, 2024
Throat problems could impair autonomic nervous system’s ability to regulate blood pressure - Patients with throat problems have reduced blood pressure control, possibly impacting long-term survival and holistic health.Supercooling of Earth's inner core may finally reveal how old it is - The Earth's core may be much younger than previously thought.
Wearable brain imaging device shines a light on how babies respond in real-world situations - New wearable brain imaging tech measures babies' brain activity, aiding understanding of early neurodevelopment and neurodiversity.
Science news this week: 'Thorin' the last Neanderthal and a 'smiley face' on Mars - Sept. 14, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Breakthrough research sheds light on the hidden effects of stress on sperm - Groundbreaking research shows stress enhances sperm motility post-stress, potentially impacting fertility and fetal development.
Mirror, mirror, in my tank, who’s the biggest fish of all? - Fish demonstrate self-awareness by checking body size in a mirror, suggesting similarities with human self-awareness.
September 13, 2024
A Gravity Map of Mars Uncovers Subsurface Mysteries - A team of scientists presented a new gravity map of Mars at the Europlanet Science Congress 2024.Navy captains don’t like abandoning ship—but with Starliner, the ship left them - "As the commander or pilot of your spacecraft, you don’t want to see it go off without you."
Oxycodone use in Australia drops after new policies - Oxycodone use in Australia nearly halved after a policy change, according to a new study.
Mindfulness meditation really does relieve pain, brain scans reveal - A new study suggests that mindfulness meditation influences how the brain perceives pain in ways that are distinct from the placebo effect.
Multiple ways to evolve tiny knee bone could have helped humans walk upright - Primates' knee bone evolution may explain human upright walking.
Saline nose drops may shorten colds and cut transmission, trial hints - Giving children saline nose drops at the start of a cold may shorten its duration and reduce the likelihood that they will pass the illness to others, a study hints.
Feeling Gravity’s Pull - Two theoretical physicists have a lively conversation about how abstract concepts can feel down-to-Earth.
Sols 4304-4006: 12 Years, 42 Drill Holes, and Now… 1 Million ChemCam Shots! - Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 Today, I need to talk about ChemCam, our laser and imaging instrument on the top of Curiosity’s mast.
Super Harvest Moon lunar eclipse: How to watch online for free on Sept. 17 - A partial lunar eclipse of the Super Harvest Moon is coming on Sept. 17, 2024.
Century-old experiment secures beer and whiskey’s future - Researchers identified genes enabling barley's adaptability, crucial for its survival and climate-resilient crop development.
Scientists Recreate Mars Spiders in the Lab - In 2003, strange features on Mars’s surface got scientists’ “spidey senses” tingling when they saw them.
'We just ran out of time': Boeing Starliner astronauts on why their spaceship returned to Earth without them - The decision to send Boeing's Starliner capsule home uncrewed from the ISS was driven in part by time constraints, according to NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore.
Summer 2024 Was the Hottest Ever Measured, Beating Last Year - The year 2024 could easily shape up to be the hottest ever measured, climate scientists say
NASA Ames Selects Aeronautics and Exploration Support Contractor - NASA has awarded the NASA Academic Mission Services 2 (NAMS-2) contract to Crown Consulting Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, to provide the agency’s Ames
Here’s why you shouldn’t freak out about lead in your cinnamon - For the most part, you'd have to eat a weirdly large amount to cause a problem.
Polaris Dawn is Away, Sending Another Crew Into Orbit to Perform the First Private Spacewalk - We’ve officially entered a new era of private spaceflight.
The Outer Reaches of the Milky Way are Full of Stars, and the JWST is Observing Them - The Milky Way’s outer reaches are coming into view thanks to the JWST.
More Bodies Discovered in the Outer Solar System - The outer Solar System has been a treasure trove of discoveries in recent decades.
The best 70s sci-fi movies - Sci-fi in the 1970s was weird, wonderful, and where franchises were born.
Watch space aliens invade in wild new 'Venom: The Last Dance' trailer (video) - Sony Pictures released a final launch trailer for "Venom: The Last Dance," which premieres on Oct. 25, 2024.
UW researchers develop a stretchable, wearable device that lights up an LED using only the warmth of your skin - Researchers at UW have developed a flexible, durable electronic prototype that harnesses body heat to power small electronics.
Waxing Gibbous Moon over Minnesota - An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this picture of the Moon as the station orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state of Minnesota on Dec. 17, 2021.
The Stealthy Assassin Robberfly - Don’t underestimate this slender predator from the British grasslands.
SpaceX Super Heavy rocket gets supersonic wind tunnel test for NASA's Artemis moon missions (photos) - A 1.2% scale model of SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy rocket underwent NASA wind tunnel testing, during which high-speed forced air simulated varying flight conditions.
How Do Other Animals See the World? - It’s hard to know what the world looks like to animals, but scientists have developed a new technology to help with that.
A Huge Tsunami Caused by a Thinning Glacier Created a Seismic Event for Nine Days - Scientists have traced a baffling monotonous planetary hum that lasted for nine days back to a glacier in Greenland
NASA’s Lunar Challenge Participants to Showcase Innovations During Awards - Editor’s note: This media advisory was updated Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, with a correct phone number for the media contact at NASA’s Glenn Research Center.
Sols 4302-4303: West Side of Upper Gediz Vallis, From Tungsten Hills to the Next Rocky Waypoint - Earth planning date: Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024 The rover is on its way from the Tungsten Hills site to the next priority site for Gediz Vallis channel exploration, in which we plan to get in close enough for arm science to one of the numerous large dark-toned “float” blocks in the channel and also to […]
'Star Wars Outlaws' finally lets fans play as the scoundrel (review) - The first open-word game from the galaxy far, far away feels like the Han Solo simulator we've been waiting for.
NASA Airport Throughput Prediction Challenge - The Digital Information Platform (DIP) Sub-Project of Air Traffic Management - eXploration (ATM-X) is seeking to make available in the National Airspace
Evidence of “snowball Earth” found in ancient rocks - An outcrop in Scotland has material from when the Earth went into a deep freeze.
NASA’s Artemis II Crew Uses Iceland Terrain for Lunar Training - At first glance, it seems like a scene from an excursion on the Moon’s surface…except the people are in hiking gear, not spacesuits.
Fossil fish explains how tectonics played a key role in evolution - Fossil fish skull helps explain how plate tectonics played a key role in the evolution of ancient bony fish which eventually led to humans.
Sahara desert hit by extraordinary rainfall event that could mess with this year's hurricane season - The world's largest hot desert, the Sahara, is being hit with unusually heavy rain.
Pivotal Ancient Fish Fossils Mark a Key Turning Point in a Slow Evolution - Researchers compare new coelacanth fossils to ones that came before and after and link evolutionary changes to tectonic activity.
Apollo 11 moonwalk footprint featured on Sprayground's latest backpack - Follow in the footsteps of Apollo astronauts with a new space-themed backpack that aims to inspire a sense of exploration and transport wearers to the lunar surface.
'Mountain of God' volcano in Tanzania is bulging, study finds - Satellite data suggest a volcano in Tanzania that expels extremely runny lava could be creeping toward an eruption.
How the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Rover Will Drill for Samples on Mars - Russia’s attack on Ukraine has delayed its launch, but the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover is heading toward completion.
Coal mine plan quashed by High Court - A High Court judge rules the decision to give permission for the mine was "legally flawed".
Celestron Origin Intelligent Home Observatory review - The Celestron Origin will have you taking crystal clear stunning pictures of deep sky objects in minutes.
Guilt Over Kids’ Screen Time Is Common − But it can Have a Silver Lining - As unpleasant as this guilt is, the good news is that those feelings, if you listen to them, can help encourage healthier choices for you and your kids.
Iron winds and molten metal rains ravage a hellish hot Jupiter exoplanet - "Iron Winds and Metal Rain."
SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base, lands rocket (video) - SpaceX's latest Starlink satellite launch lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sept. 12, adding to a constellation of more than 6,300 operational satellites.
ESA's JUICE spacecraft confirmed Earth is habitable. Here's why - JUICE successfully identified water and the building blocks of life in Earth's atmosphere.
DAILY DOSE: First Commercial Spacewalk Achieved by Polaris Dawn; OpenAI Unveils o1 Model with Enhanced Reasoning. - Polaris Dawn achieves historic commercial spacewalk, reaching record altitudes.
Remembering where your meals came from key for a small bird’s survival - For small birds, remembering where the food is beats forgetting when it's gone.
Exploring ternary metal sulfides as electrocatalysts for carbon dioxide reduction reactions - One of the most promising avenues for actively reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere is recycling it into valuable chemicals via electrocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions.
The Boeing Starliner has Returned to Earth Without its Crew - A former astronaut details what that means for NASA, Boeing and the astronauts still up in space.
New photocatalyst achieves superior oxidative methane coupling - Researchers have developed a novel catalyst Au/BiOx-TiO2 for efficient, selective and stable photocatalytic light-driven oxidative coupling of methane (OCM).
Cosmic Collision: Ancient galaxies merge to create luminous quasars - Researchers have used a massive telescope to observe a pair of galaxies merging 12.8 billion years away, creating one of the brightest objects in the universe.
Gateway to the underworld: The enormous permafrost 'megaslump' in Siberia that keeps getting bigger - The growing "gateway to the underworld," officially known as the Batagay megaslump, is the largest megaslump in the world and exposes permafrost layers that are 650,000 years old.
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Longest Nerve in the Body - Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of the mind such as mood, pleasure and fear
Chemical imaging method holds promise for separate overlapping fingerprints - A new study from the Department of Forensic Medicine at Aarhus University is the first in the world to analyze fingerprints on gelatin lifters using chemical imaging.
Rocket Report: China leaps into rocket reuse; 19 people are currently in orbit - Launch startups in China and Europe are borrowing ideas and rhetoric from SpaceX.
AI models believe racist stereotypes about African Americans that predate the Civil Rights movement — and they 'try to hide it when confronted' - When exposed to terms common in different racial dialects, large language models make inherently racist assumptions about people from particular racial groups, even without explicitly knowing their race.
Elon Musk Owes His Success to Coming in Second Place - The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, owes his superstar success to self-satisfied competitors who blew obvious opportunities
Hubble Examines a Spiral Star Factory - This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668.
See 15 Amazing Photos of Beautiful Birds - These Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest images celebrate our feathered friends
Plant-derived secondary organic aerosols can act as mediators of plant-plant interactions - A new study reveals that plant-derived secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) can act as mediators of plant-plant interactions.
Folded or cut, this lithium-sulfur battery keeps going - Most rechargeable batteries that power portable devices, such as toys, handheld vacuums and e-bikes, use lithium-ion technology.
Bacteria work together to thrive in difficult conditions - In a new study, researchers have determined through both statistical analysis and in experiments that soil pH is a driver of microbial community composition -- but that the need to address toxicity released during nitrogen cycling ultimately shapes the final microbial community.
Is a Supermoon Really Special? - Supermoons are popular in the media, but are they really so different from how our extraordinary moon ordinarily appears?
Erbium-doped electrocatalyst enhances oxygen evolution reactions in acidic environments - A group of researchers has developed an electrocatalyst that promises to significantly enhance the efficiency and stability of oxygen evolution reactions (OER) in acidic environments.
Rain Bosworth studies how deaf kids experience the world - This deaf experimental psychologist has found that babies are born ready to learn sign language, just like spoken language.
Thousands of jellyfish clones are multiplying in B.C. lakes - A new jellyfish species from China, the peach blossom jellyfish, is spreading in B.C.
Parasitic 'horror' wasp that bursts from a fly's abdomen like an 'Alien' xenomorph discovered in Mississippi backyard - Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive.
Astrophotography Tips from an Astronaut on the International Space Station - NASA flight engineer Matthew Dominick’s astrophotography helps us see our world—from space.
Meet The AI Scientist About to Change Research Forever - Computer scientists have automated the entire scientific process using an AI machine that develops hypotheses, tests them in appropriate experiments and writes up the results in a scientific paper.
In Graphic Detail: By-caught Birds - When commercial fishers haul up their nets, they often find dolphins, sharks, sea turtles, and other creatures entangled amid their catches.
Tasmanian tiger’s 3 oldest ancestors discovered in Queensland - New members have been added to the family tree of the now extinct thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus).
Dealing with this introduced pest is like shooting Bambi - The rainforests of eastern Victoria are home to giant tree ferns which pre-date the dinosaurs.
Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models Add a Dimension to Developmental Biology - Studying human embryonic development is complicated for several reasons.
Better Living Through Algae Biotechnology - Scientists explore how unicellular aquatic organisms could help humanity exist more sustainably.
Eavesdropping on Ion Channels Using the Patch Clamp Technique - Cells send electrical impulses throughout the body, but electrophysiologists struggled to tune into these signals until the patch clamp technique was developed.
Algae: The Next Green Revolution - Researchers explore algal biology for new strategies to help humans live more sustainably.
Infographic: Bridging the Sex Bias Gap - Researchers challenge a male-dominated field and advocate for more representation of female subjects.
The Dynamic Lives of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins - Shapeshifting proteins challenge a long-standing maxim in biology.
Understanding Neurodegenerative Disease with Prion Research - Molecular neurobiologist Julie Moreno explores the consequences of protein misfolding in the brain.
Meet the Team: Laura Tran, PhD - Driven by her desire to concoct creative stories, Laura Tran merged her scientific knowledge with the art of storytelling.
XX Marks the Spot: Addressing Sex Bias in Neuroscience - For years, neuroscience research overlooked female subjects, creating a significant bias.
In Search of FACS: The History of Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting - In the middle of the 20th century, science disciplines collided and set the stage for a technology that changed cell research.
Infographic: The Many Paths to Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models - Culturing pluripotent stem cells to replicate different stages of embryonic development allows researchers to more easily investigate this period.
An Endometrial Stem Cell Pioneer - Two decades ago, Caroline Gargett identified adult stem cells in the endometrium.
An Ode to Stem Cells - Leveraging the versatility of stem cells allows researchers to advance science across multiple disciplines.
Infographic: Shapeshifters in the Proteome - Textbooks often depict proteins as nicely folded three-dimensional structures, but many proteins are far from it.
Artemis Missions Could Put the most Powerful imaging Telescope on the Moon - Ground-based interferometry on Earth has proven to be a successful method for conducting science by combining light from several telescopes into acting like a single large telescope.
Sri Lanka’s presidential hopefuls back science and tech - Leading Sri Lankan presidential candidates pledge to prioritise science and research to aid economic recovery.
Butterfly thieves handed $200,000 fine - Two Italian men were arrested at a Sri Lankan wildlife park after they were found with hundreds of protected insects.
And the Winner is…. Astronomy Photographers of the Year 2024 Announced - Every year, the “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” competition provides incredible images of our night sky — whether they are stunning views of distant galaxies or dramatic photos of aurorae or other views from our home planet.
Ignore antifungal resistance in fungal disease at your peril, warn top scientists - Without immediate action, humanity will potentially face further escalation in resistance in fungal disease, a group of scientists from the around the world has warned.
Researchers hope to monitor Antarctic vegetation remotely - ARC Laureate Fellow Professor Sharon Robinson is designing ways to enable scientists to monitor the Antarctic region without having to fly there.
September 12, 2024
CEO of “health care terrorists” faces contempt charges after Senate no-show - Senators are pursuing both civil and criminal contempt charges.See a First-Person View of the First Private Spacewalk - On Tuesday, September 10th, at 5:23 a.m. EST (03:23 p.m. PST), the Polaris Dawn mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying a crew of four to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
Drunk Worms Wiggle Their Way to an Ig Nobel Win - University of Amsterdam researchers claimed the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studying polymers by racing inebriated and sober worms through a chromatography maze.
Meet the winners of the 2024 Ig Nobel Prizes - The award ceremony features miniature operas, scientific demos, and the 24/7 lectures.
Falling Down a Rabbit Hole in Real Life - Neurologists are just beginning to understand Alice in Wonderland syndrome.
Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data - Harvard, however, will still face trial over how it managed the investigation.
Crown-of-thorns starfish thrive in degraded coral - Researchers in Queensland might have discovered why attempts to eradicate crown-of-thorns starfish is so difficult.
Groundbreaking New Maps of the Sun’s Coronal Magnetic Fields - If you enjoyed this summer’s display of aurora borealis, thank the Sun’s corona.
Testing Europa Clipper’s Solar Arrays - On Aug. 21, 2024, engineers and technicians deployed and tested NASA’s Europa Clipper giant solar arrays.
Mystery tremors were from massive nine-day tsunami - Scientists launched an investigation after being baffled by seismic signals picked up across the world
The Search for What Shook the Earth for Nine Days Straight - Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring.
AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans - Co-author Gordon Pennycook: "The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies."
When Swarms of Birds Attack Other Birds, They are Using a Mobbing Technique - What is mobbing behavior?
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to Conduct Space Station Research - NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are headed to the International Space Station for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in September.
Laughter Exercise Could Be Treatment For Dry Eye Disease - Dry eye disease is a chronic condition estimated to affect around 360 million people.
Enzyme-inspired catalyst puts chemicals in right position to make ethers - Taking inspiration from enzymes, chemists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a catalyst to simplify the synthesis of ethers, key functional components of many drugs, foods, personal care items and other consumer goods.
Dual-feedback mechanism can enhance anti-oxidation coatings in fiber composites - Fiber-reinforced ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) have been the primary choice for radome materials in hypersonic vehicles due to their high toughness, strength, and other advantageous properties.
Normal Sleep Duration 50% Less Common After A Stroke - Getting enough sleep is correlated to brain and heart health and after a stroke that is even more important.
Researchers achieve efficient electro-oxidation of glycerol to formate under room temperature - Glycerol is a key byproduct of biodiesel fabrication, and its production has increased proportionally with the growth of biodiesel production.
Mpox Vaccine Effective In Preventing Infection - A health data simulation has concluded that a single dose of the Modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) was 58% effective in protecting again mpox infection, a disease caused by infection with the Monkeypox virus, which is most likely in men who have sex with men and which causes a rash, along with other symptoms.
Billionaire completes first private spacewalk - A billionaire and an engineer have become the first non-professional crew to perform a spacewalk.
How Microbes can Help Pinpoint Time of Death for Forensic Investigations in the Cold - What happens to a dead body in an extremely cold environment?
The Devil in the Details, Chapter One: The Doctor Who Said No to Thalidomide - Starting with her rejection of an FDA application for thalidomide in 1960, physician and pharmacist Frances Oldham Kelsey took a stand against the now infamous drug
Catalyzing environmental cleanup: A highly active and selective molecular catalyst and electrified membrane - Some chemicals create environmental problems; others, fortunately, can help clean them up.
Development strategies for using carbon-based catalysts in CO₂ conversion - One of the primary drivers of climate change, CO2 emissions, has reached over 35 million tons worldwide.
Researchers solve long-standing mystery of alumina surface structure - Aluminum oxide (Al2O3), also known as alumina, corundum, sapphire, or ruby, is one of the best insulators used in a wide range of applications: in electronic components, as a support material for catalysts, or as a chemically resistant ceramic, to name a few.
Discovery could lead to longer-lasting EV batteries, hasten energy transition - Researchers have discovered why lithium-ion batteries, which power most electronic devices, lose capacity overtime.
How El Nino and mega ocean warming caused the greatest-ever mass extinction - Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research.
Climate-change-triggered 2023 mega-landslide caused Earth to vibrate for nine days - A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a new study.
Eminent officials say NASA facilities some of the “worst” they’ve ever seen - Buildings at Johnson Space Center in Houston are among the worst at any NASA facility.
Tubular scaffolds boost stem cell-driven bone regeneration in skull defects - Scientists from Sun Yat-sen University's School of Biomedical Engineering have developed tubular scaffolds made from electrospun membranes, which significantly enhance bone regeneration in critical skull defects.
Smart supramolecular assemblies: Researchers show how additives promote self-assembly of spherical microparticles - If you've ever opened a box from IKEA and wished the pieces inside could somehow spontaneously merge to form a table or chair, then a simple virus could have a thing or two to teach you.
Invisibility cloaks? Wave scattering simulation unlocks potential for advanced metamaterials - Could invisibility cloaks become a reality?
Trilobite fossils from upstate New York reveal 'extra' set of legs - A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head.
Hair-thin wire to help simulate cosmic conditions - Extreme conditions prevail inside stars and planets.
Path to prosperity for planet and people shrinking rapidly, scientists warn - Our planet will only remain able to provide even the most basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, a new report shows.
Impact of climate change on agriculture suggests even greater challenges to the environment, global food supply and public health - A sweeping global research review of the links between climate and agriculture reveals the likelihood of an emergent feedback loop whereby, as climate change puts more pressure on the global food supply, agriculture will, by necessity, adopt practices that may exacerbate its environmental impact.
NASA's Webb peers into the extreme outer galaxy - Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy.
Powered by renewable energy, microbes turn CO2 into protein and vitamins - Researchers can harvest protein and vitamin B9 from microbes by feeding them nothing much more than hydrogen, oxygen, and CO2.
Quantum researchers cause controlled 'wobble' in the nucleus of a single atom - Researchers have been able to initiate a controlled movement in the very heart of an atom.
Researchers discover building blocks that could 'revolutionize computing' - A research team has made a major discovery by designing molecules that could revolutionize computing.
Research reveals reality of Ice Age teen puberty - Landmark new research shows Ice Age teens from 25,000 years ago went through similar puberty stages as modern-day adolescents.
Can Thermodynamics Go Quantum? - The Industrial Revolution brought us the laws of thermodynamics, and new ideas about work, energy and efficiency.
Winning Westerns: Tips and Tricks for Protein Electrophoresis and Western Blotting - In this webinar, Kelly Wolfe will highlight how to obtain more reliable and reproducible western blots.
Understudied protein blobs have global effects on cell biochemistry - Most biological chemistry research has historically focused on the obvious cogs of machinery that keep life moving.
Scientists Will Engineer the Ocean to Absorb More Carbon Dioxide - A research consortium plans to revive geoengineering trials of the controversial iron fertilization technique to pull carbon dioxide from the air, despite public backlash
Is Weight Loss as Simple as Calories in, Calories out? - In the end, it’s your gut microbes and leftovers that make your calories count.
Two private astronauts took a spacewalk Thursday morning—yes, it was historic - "Today’s success represents a giant leap forward for the commercial space industry."
Polaris Dawn Astronauts Perform First Private Space Walk in a Stellar Success for SpaceX - The world’s first commercial space walk, performed by billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, tested new technology and was practically flawless
Fighting chance: new theory of behaviour for weird fossil bird - For palaeontologists, deducing the behaviour of long-dead animals is notoriously tricky.