After drugmaker Novo Nordisk tweaked its diabetes drug Ozempic into Wegovy—a formulation expressly designed to help users shed pounds—sales of both drugs skyrocketed. Other pharmaceutical giants took notice, and over…
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Upskilling and Certification Are New Keys To Securing Tech Talent
Ongoing global economic uncertainty is impacting technical hiring strategies. Given the persistent financial challenges, more organizations are revising their hiring plans by freezing new positions. However, the demand for skilled…
Emulating how krill swim to build a robotic platform for ocean navigation
Pleobot is a small robotic platform that emulates krill-like swimming. Credit: Wilhelmus Lab. Picture a network of interconnected, autonomous robots working together in a coordinated dance to navigate the pitch-black…
Stone head found in Lake Nemi may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships |
A stone head found at the bottom of Lake Nemi in Italy’s Lazio region may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships. The discovery was made by the Municipal Civil Protection of…
Headlines involving the fascinating (and perilous) world of oceanography and marine biology can be viewed on the Marine Science channel
The recent tragic loss of the Titan submersible in the depths of the North Atlantic has brought the fascinating (and very dangerous) world of Oceanography and Marine Science to the…
Bottlenose dolphin moms use baby talk with their calves
McKenzie Prillaman was the Spring 2023 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience with a minor in bioethics from the University of Virginia and…
Novel ‘toggle-switch’ could lead to more versatile quantum processors with clearer outputs
This photo shows the central working region of the device. In the lower section, the three large rectangles (light blue) represent the two quantum bits, or qubits, at right and…
Being born in a city no longer increases their chances of survival
by Peter Macharia, Andrea Barnabas Pembe, Claudia Hanson and Lenka Benova, The Conversation Each dot on this map represents a group of households surveyed during the 2016 Tanzania Demographic and…
