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Why can’t monkeys speak?
With their vocal tract, it would be easy for monkeys to produce many different language sounds.Credit: Tecumseh Fitch/University of Vienna
Monkeys and apes are unable...
New bird species and giraffe under threat
The global giraffe population has plummeted by up to 40% over the last 30 years, and the species has been listed as Vulnerable on...
Scientists shed new light on how the brain processes, maintains what we don’t see
A team of scientists has mapped out how our brains process visuals we don't even know we've seen, indicating that the neuronal encoding and...
Half of people believe fake facts
Around 50% of us are susceptible to believing we’ve experienced fictitious events, University of Warwick research finds
False memory study included over 400 people
Raises questions...
Cassini Beams Back First Images from New Orbit
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft was obtained about two days before its first close pass by the outer edges of Saturn's main rings...
Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons
Technosphere includes physical human-made structures such as houses, factories, smartphones, computers and landfill.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Leicester
"The technosphere is a major new...
Quantum particles form droplets
Quantum droplets may preserve their form in absence of external confinement because of quantum effects. Credit: IQOQI/Harald Ritsch
In experiments with magnetic atoms conducted at...
First ‘water-wave’ laser created
Artistic illustration of “Water-Wave” Laser. Credit: Technion Spokesperson's Office
Technion researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, that laser emissions can be created through the...
Scientists discover a nearby ‘super-Earth’
Artistic design of the "superearth" GJ 536 b and the star GJ 536. Credit: Gabriel Pérez, SMM (IAC).
Doctoral student Alejandro Suárez Mascareño, of the...
Team discovers major supercluster of galaxies hidden by Milky Way
The Vela supercluster in its wider surroundings: The image displays the smoothed redshift distribution of galaxies in and around the Vela supercluster (larger ellipse;...
A milestone in small RNA biology: piRNA biogenesis from start to finish
PIWI-interacting RNAs, or piRNAs for short, are a class of 'small regulatory RNAs' -- tiny pieces of nucleic acid just 22-30 nucleotides in length....
