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Link between DNA and chronic widespread joint pain
Image Credit: Flickr/Esther Max
Scientists at King's College London, funded by the charity Arthritis Research UK, have found a link between changes in marks on...
Even physicists are ‘afraid’ of mathematics
Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, new research suggests.
The study, published in the New Journal of Physics, shows that...
Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information between matter and light
From stationary to flying qubits at speeds never reached before…. This feat, achieved by a team from Polytechnique Montréal and France’s Centre national de...
4 ways the ozone hole is linked to climate, and 1 way it isn’t
A screenshot from an animation of ~200 three-second exposures displaying the awesome movement of Auroras. Patrick Cullis took pictures of the Milky Way over...
Scientists develop light-driven motors to power nanorobots of the future
The operating principle of the proposed translational photomotor. Credit: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
A collaborative of scientists has proposed a model for a...
Meteorites reveal lasting drought on Mars
Meteorite accumulation at Victoria Crater. Credit: University of Stirling
The lack of liquid water on the surface of Mars today has been demonstrated by new...
What Does It Take to Make a Memory? Study Says New Proteins
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have now for the first time identified a sub-region in the brain that...
Climate Change Already Dramatically Disrupting All Elements Of Nature
Global changes in temperature due to human-induced climate change have already impacted every aspect of life on Earth including Arctic species like this bearded...
Researchers discover new method to dissipate heat in electronic devices
Fariborz Kargar, a graduate student researcher, is measuring the acoustic phonon dispersion in the semiconductor nanowires in UCR's Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center,...
Hazardous chemicals discovered in flavored e-cigarette vapor
DRI scientists used a controlled sampling system to simulate the most common vaping conditions. E-cigarette vapor was produced from each device by a four-second,...
Two types of liquid water
Writing in the International Journal of Nanotechnology, Oxford University’s Laura Maestro and her colleagues in Italy, Mexico, Spain and the USA, explain how the...
