Hannah Price

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Hannah covers news and science for Contoh – the stories behind the headlines, and why they matter.

Energy Drinks Were Linked to 11 Times More Cardiac Arrest Reports, a Preliminary Study Finds

A preliminary analysis of FDA reports found energy drinks and stimulant supplements were mentioned far more often with serious heart events. It can’t prove cause.

CERN Finds Evidence of a One-in-10-Billion Particle Decay After a 40-Year Search

The LHCb experiment reports 3-sigma evidence of an ultra-rare decay. It is not a confirmed discovery, and the result still matches the Standard Model.

Gas Leaks on Mars Hint at Hidden Volcanic Heat Beneath Alba Mons, Study Finds

A European orbiter spotted hydrogen chloride seeping from fresh cracks on a giant Martian volcano. Scientists say it may point to a dormant magma chamber, but no eruption has been seen.

Dinosaur Blood Chemistry Found in 115-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Researchers Report

Curtin University researchers report chemical traces of hemoglobin inside fossilized red blood cells from a Brazilian dinosaur. Here is what they found and what remains unproven.

A Spear Likely Killed This 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal, and He Was Buried Afterward

Cambridge researchers say a wooden spear pierced a Neanderthal’s chest in Iraqi Kurdistan, in what may be the oldest fatal spear attack in the fossil record.

Spiders Sleep in Two Stages, and One Looks Like REM, a Study Finds

University of Bonn researchers filmed jumping spiders overnight and found two distinct sleep stages, one with REM-like twitching. Whether spiders dream is still unknown.

Earth’s Core May Be Leaking Hydrogen Into the Mantle, a New Study Suggests

Computer simulations from a Chinese team suggest hydrogen has been seeping from Earth’s core into the mantle for billions of years. It is a modeling result, with open questions.

Soil Bacteria Make a “Pac-Man” Enzyme That Eats Bioplastics, and It Can Also Break Down Penicillin

German researchers found a soil-bacteria enzyme with a wide-open active site that breaks down biodegradable plastics and, in lab tests, penicillin. Ordinary polyethylene went almost untouched.

Why Does the Moon Have Two Faces? First Far-Side Rocks Point to Earth’s Pull

Rocks from China's Chang'e-6 mission suggest Earth's gravity heated the young Moon unevenly, pushing crust-building magma to the far side. Here's the evidence, and the catch.

A Fossil That Sat in a Museum Drawer for Nearly 100 Years Is Europe’s First Megaraptor

A skull fragment collected on England’s Isle of Wight and overlooked since 1924 is a new species of claw-handed predator, the first megaraptor confirmed in Europe.

A Canadian Telescope Picks Up the Faint Glow of Hydrogen From 9 Billion Years Ago

The CHIME radio telescope detected a faint signal from hydrogen gas in the distant universe on its own, a step toward mapping cosmic expansion and testing ideas about dark energy.

Physicists Build the First Working Nuclear Clocks, and One Can Keep Itself in Tune

Two teams report the first clocks that tick with an atomic nucleus instead of electrons. A Vienna prototype even stabilizes itself. Here is how they work and what they could mean.

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