Nell Greenfield Boyce
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La dinamica
Cose sbagliate, cose giuste - #21
Unlike dogs, cats, and horses, people can't literally prick up their ears. Our evolutionary ancestors seem to have lost this ability millions of years ago. Recently, though, lab scientists put electrodes on the muscles around people's ears and ran some tests. And the electrodes registered tiny amounts of electrical activity in one muscle whenever people were listening especially hard.
La dinamica
Cose sbagliate, cose giuste - #21
It was the muscle that, in other animals, lifts the ear up. The research appears in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience. Researchers say a smart hearing aid could monitor this muscle to keep track of how much effort it was taking for someone to hear and then respond accordingly. Nell Greenfield-Boyce, NPR News.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-18-2024 6PM EST
Astronauts brought back moon rocks, and almost all date back to around 4.35 billion years ago. Trouble is, scientists think the moon got created much earlier than that, when an object the size of Mars slammed into the Earth. Now, in the journal Nature, researchers offer this explanation.
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NPR News: 12-18-2024 6PM EST
As the moon moved away from Earth, at a certain point, it underwent a temporary period of remelting due to gravitational forces that heated it up. Francis Nimmo is with the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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NPR News: 12-18-2024 6PM EST
Creating new rocks that appeared to be younger than the true age of the moon. Nell Greenfield Boyce, NPR News.