10 results for “ombialik”
There are these repeated injuries in hadrosaur tails. There were a few theories on this, but one of them stands out. No easy way to say this: some dinosaurs were really into rough sex.
Link: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02000-0
New paper in the wild!
Dolomite is a weird mineral, for many reasons. One of which is that most of it is old. But there is a bit of new dolomite, such as in the Abu Dhabi sabkhas, and we used those to control for the seawater signals dolomite retains.
There's the science you do to pay the bills, and there's the science you do because you're interested in it. It's nice when the two overlap (esp. as the first often takes a larger volume of your time), but they often enough won't.
"The proportion of persons identifying as bisexual and the proportion of persons who report engaging in sex with partners of both sexes in the U.S. have increased markedly since 1989."
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2023.2225176
Digital spaces have now become a permanent part of our sex lives across age groups. Whether it's solo engagement, searching online for sexual information, or even interacting with other people in sexual ways (mostly the first two).
Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-026-10626-2
I feel like I'm a bit stuck with this revision.
Time to switch palettes and go back to one of the two manuscripts I'm supposedly writing.
At some point, we need to remind people that the things that win wars (and also keep the systems that prevent them) are usually not the flashy superweapons and gimmicks. It's the boring stuff: the finance, the infrastructure, the logistics, social cohesion, and trust in institutions.
Celular de-aging I'd put under #SciFiScience... except there was just a major breakthrough with that. In an experiment turning blood cells into brain stem cells (cool enough), it turned their epigenetic clocks sort of reset.
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acel.70751
All I wanted was a nice graphical element to add to my student's poster... and we accidentally stumbled into a relatively new paper from a different field that might have solved a major issue we've been struggling with for months.
There is a reason I named my lab SERENDIPITY.
The old ladies might have had a point; rule-breaking might be "contagious". At least in the sense that the odds are that more people will break the rules if they see someone else doing it first.