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Stellar magnetism: What’s behind the most brilliant lights in the sky?
Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal...
Astrochemists reveal the magnetic secrets of methanol
A team of scientists, led by Boy Lankhaar at Chalmers University of Technology, has solved an important puzzle in astrochemistry: how to measure magnetic...
Scientists discover how gene mutation triggers immune disease
Scientists discovered how a gene mutation affects T cell function to promote immune disorders and then tested a treatment based on the discovery--successfully fixing...
Women beat expectations when playing chess against men
Data from 160,000 ranked chess players and more than five million chess matches suggests that women playing against men perform better than expected based...
Northern European population history revealed by ancient human genomes
An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, analyzed ancient human genomes from...
Mammals and birds could have best shot at surviving climate change
New research that analyzed more than 270 million years of data on animals shows that mammals and birds - both warm-blooded animals - may...
Visualizing danger from songbird warning calls
Watch out! Snake!
The moment you hear this, you cannot help but imagine a slithering creature, as your body prepares for a possible attack. In...
How to reduce heat extremes by 2-3 degrees C
New research published today in Nature Geoscience has found that climate engineering that modifies the properties of the land surface in highly populated areas...
Boosting Sirt4 gene activity extends healthy lifespan in fruit flies
A new study on the mechanics of aging and longevity finds that fruit flies inhibited from producing the protein Sirt4 -- which is also...
Body clock disruptions occur years before memory loss in Alzheimer’s
People with Alzheimer's disease are known to have disturbances in their internal body clocks that affect the sleep/wake cycle and may increase risk of...
What happens to language as populations grow? It simplifies, say researchers
Languages have an intriguing paradox. Languages with lots of speakers, such as English and Mandarin, have large vocabularies with relatively simple grammar. Yet the...
