Outflowing gas from galaxy supermassive black hole nuclei
Supermassive black holes at the nuclei of most galaxies, including our Milky Way, develop gradually as material accretes onto the seed black hole. The...
‘Carbon bubble’ coming that could wipe trillions from the global economy: study
Fossil fuel stocks have long been a safe financial bet. With the International Energy Agency projecting price rises until 2040, and governments prevaricating or...
Who gets their mass from the Higgs?
The Higgs field is like an endless ocean through which all matter swims. Some particles are like sponges and sop up mass as they...
Peering at atomic structures with no more than pencil and paper
Who would guess that cracking the mystery of how infinitesimally small atoms arrange themselves at the edges of crystals in advanced materials could be...
Spooky quantum particle pairs fly like weird curveballs
Curvy baseball pitches have surprising things in common with quantum particles described in a new physics study, though the latter fly much more weirdly.
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A filthy first—the six common types of disgust that protect us from disease revealed
Disgust has long been recognised as an emotion which evolved to help our ancestors avoid infection, but now researchers have been able to show...
Hats on for Easter Island statues
How do you put a 13-ton hat on a giant statue? That's what a team of researchers is trying to figure out with their...
Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
Rakesh Mogul, a Cal Poly Pomona professor of biological chemistry, was the lead author of an article in the journal Astrobiology that offers the...
Atomically thin nanowires convert heat to electricity more efficiently
Waste heat can be converted to electricity more efficiently using one-dimensional nanoscale materials as thin as an atom – ushering a new way of...
Two ancient populations that diverged later ‘reconverged’ in the Americas
A new genetic study of ancient individuals in the Americas and their contemporary descendants finds that two populations that diverged from one another 18,000...
Secrets behind Pluto’s dunes revealed
Scientists have discovered dunes on Pluto, and say they are likely to have been formed of methane ice grains released into its rarefied atmosphere.
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