MountainTrue reports major improvements in French Broad River quality
MountainTrue, an Asheville-based nonprofit, is continuing to survey Helene's impact on the French Broad River in Helene.
Strontium isotope analysis tracks prehistoric ostrich eggshell bead exchange in southern Africa
A recent study by archaeologist Prof. Peter Mitchell and his colleagues published in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa examines how ostrich eggshell (OES) beads moved across southeast southern ...
Scientists Are Building the World’s Most Accurate Clock. It Could Be a Turning Point for Humanity.
The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...
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Chernobyl’s frogs are living long, healthy lives
To do this, we measured the levels of caesium in their muscles and strontium in their bones, allowing us to precisely ...
Historians Got It Wrong: New DNA Evidence From Pompeii Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About Ancient Rome
New DNA evidence from Pompeii’s body casts reveals that traditional assumptions about residents’ relationships and origins ...
A breakthrough in timekeeping: Progress toward a nuclear clock
Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...
For the First Time Ever, Scientists Have Witnessed the Birth of a Heavy Atom
The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...
MountainTrue releases more post-Helene soil, water samples: How polluted is the French Broad?
The latest results from Hot Springs, Asheville and other parts of the watershed are in, according to the French Broad ...
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India partners with International Energy Agency for cooperation in critical minerals
The Ministry of Mines and International Energy Agency (IEA) signed an MoU on Wednesday for cooperation in the area of ...
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Frogs exposed to radiation show no signs of accelerated aging
The frogs residing in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone appear remarkably unaffected by radiation when it comes to their age and ...
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Secrets of Scotland's 'Trimontium Man' unlocked by single 2,000-year-old tooth
Aged between 35 and 46 years old at the time of his death, a tooth was extracted from the man’s skull for strontium isotope analysis to test how traces of the element corresponded with that found in ...