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Scientists find genes with large effects on head and brain size
The size of children's heads is not only related to the growth of their skull, but also their brain. A genome-wide analysis, published in...
Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree
Paleontologists at the University of Chicago have discovered the first detailed fossil of a hagfish, the slimy, eel-like carrion feeders of the ocean. The...
An entangled atom-light state realizes a paradoxical thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger
An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated a thought experiment designed to capture the paradoxical nature...
Scientists discover new quantum spin liquid
An international research team led by the University of Liverpool and McMaster University has made a significant breakthrough in the search for new states...
Revealing the black hole at the heart of the galaxy
Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the first time, astronomers have found that the emission from the supermassive black hole...
Famous freak wave recreated in laboratory mirrors Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’
A team of researchers based at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh have recreated for the first time the famous Draupner freak wave measured...
Greenland ice melting four times faster than in 2003, study finds
Greenland is melting faster than scientists previously thought—and will likely lead to faster sea level rise—thanks to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth's...
How hot are atoms in the shock wave of an exploding star?
A new method to measure the temperature of atoms during the explosive death of a star will help scientists understand the shock wave that...
Scientists warn of climate ‘time bomb’ for world’s groundwater
Future generations face an environmental "time bomb" as the world's groundwater systems take decades to respond to the present day impact of climate change,...
Ancient climate change triggered warming that lasted thousands of years
A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according...
New nanoparticle targets tumor-infiltrating immune cells, flips switch
Immunotherapy's promise in the fight against cancer drew international attention after two scientists won a Nobel Prize this year for unleashing the ability of...
