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Researcher helps crack decades-old math problem
Spiros Michalakis, manager of outreach and staff researcher at Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), and Matthew Hastings, a researcher at Microsoft,...
Genome sequencing sheds light on yellow fever outbreak in Brazil
A pioneering Oxford University research collaboration into yellow fever virus (YFV) has shed new light on the exceptional recent outbreak in Brazil and how...
Inbreeding and disease are factors in decline of yellow-banded bumblebee
By sequencing the genome of the yellow-banded bumblebee, York University researchers have found that inbreeding and disease are likely culprits in their rapid decline...
Shape-shifting material can morph, reverse itself using heat, light
A new material developed by University of Colorado Boulder engineers can transform into complex, pre-programmed shapes via light and temperature stimuli, allowing a literal...
The dimension of a space can be inferred from the abstract network structure
Networks describe relations between objects. They show how objects relate to one another and which ones are mutually influential. In this context, how does...
Fossil turtle didn’t have a shell yet, but had the first toothless turtle beak
There are a couple of key features that make a turtle a turtle: its shell, for one, but also its toothless beak. A newly-discovered...
Macaws may communicate visually with ‘blushing,’ ruffled feathers
Parrots -- highly intelligent and highly verbal -- may also ruffle their head feathers and blush to communicate visually, according to a new study...
The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe light
You don't focus as well as you think you do.
That's the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University...
Efficient eddies carry warmer waters across the Atlantic
Eddies formed off South Africa can trap and transport water across the vast expanse of the Atlantic to Brazil, and, in doing so, make...
Uncovering atomic movements in crystal
Scientists can spend a long time in heated debates over tiny details – for example, how and whether atoms in a crystal move when...
Rare intermediate fossils give researchers insight into evolution of bird-like dinosaur
An international team of researchers discovered a new species of dinosaur, Xiyunykus pengi, during an expedition to Xinjiang, China. The discovery is the latest...
