No birds alive today have teeth. But that wasn’t always the case– many early fossil birds had beaks full of sharp, tiny teeth. In a… Read More
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Beyond Telomerase: The Quest for Chromosome Immortality
Recent research challenges the long-standing understanding of the end-replication problem in DNA, revealing two distinct issues rather than one. Half a century ago, scientists Jim… Read More
Read More »In Search of Muons: New Study Unveils Unexpected Behavior in Magnetic Oxides
Muon spectroscopy serves as a crucial experimental method for exploring the magnetic characteristics of materials. This technique involves embedding a spin-polarized muon within the crystal… Read More
Read More »Rethinking Earth’s Surface: Geoscientists Discover Hidden Faults of the Pacific Plate
Research indicates that the Pacific Plate is being torn apart at undersea plateaus across the ocean, due to the weight of the oceanic plate subducting… Read More
Read More »Lightweight, Efficient, Durable: The Triple Promise of FIDO Solar Cells
A novel material called fullerene indanones (FIDO) has been created by a Japanese research team, offering improved durability and efficiency for next-generation solar cells, with… Read More
Read More »Unlocking the Future of Security With MIT’s Terahertz Cryptographic ID Tags
MIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on… Read More
Read More »Beware – Sleeping Too Little Increases Your Risk of Diabetes
A recent study from Uppsala University, published in JAMA Network Open, has found that adults sleeping between three to five hours per night are at… Read More
Read More »Unmasking the Universe With AI: How Machine Learning Unravels Black Hole Mysteries
It takes more than a galaxy merger to make a black hole grow and new stars form: machine learning shows cold gas is needed too… Read More
Read More »D-Wave says its quantum computers can solve otherwise impossible tasks
Quantum computing firm D-Wave says its machines are the first to achieve “computational supremacy” by solving a practically useful problem that would otherwise take millions of years on an ordinary …
Read More »Breaking the Ice: Historic Lows in the Great Lakes Unveiled
The effects of a warm winter in the upper Midwest are evident in the lack of lake ice. Ice coverage on the Great Lakes typically… Read More
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