The use of the decimal point is a century and a half older than historians thought
Excerpt from Bianchini’s “Compositio instrumenti”. Reproduced with permission from the Biblioteca Estense di Modena (Cod. Lat. 145, f. 7r). Credit: ...
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Penile fibroblasts are more important for erectile function than previously thought
Credit: CC0 Public domain Regular erections may be important for maintaining erectile function, according to a new mouse study published ...
Ice ages weren’t as dry as we thought, surprising new study of Australian caves finds
by Rieneke Weij, Jon Woodhead, Josephine Brown, Kale Sniderman and Liz Reed, The Conversation Selection of fossil pollen grains extracted ...
Greenland has lost more ice than previously thought, study finds
Greenland. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain Climate change has caused 20% more ice loss than previously thought, according to a study ...
Landscapes of Oregon’s Western Cascades have historically burned more often than previously thought
Fire history from 1450 to 1950 CE at 16 data collection sites in the Upper Middle Fork Study Area. The ...
Color of light is less important to the internal clock than initially thought, study finds
Credit: CC0 Public domain Vision is a complex process. Visual perception of the environment is created by a combination of ...
Colon cancer screenings more effective than previously thought: study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain Colon cancer screening reduces cancer rates much more than previous analyzes of randomized trials suggest, according ...
Potential signs of life on Mars may be easier to find than first thought
The experiment rose to the edge of space before falling back to Earth, simulating the atmosphere of Mars. Credit: Thales ...
New study concludes that finding a cure for malaria may prove even more difficult than previously thought
Credit: Cellular host and microbe (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2023.10.019 Researchers who have studied malaria for decades, hoping to find a cure, ...
Everything you thought you knew about dopamine is wrong!
Until now, it was thought that dopamine, the “pleasure molecule”, was mainly involved in the reward circuit linked to positive ...
