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Ancient stars shed light on Earth’s similarities to other planets
Earth-like planets may be common in the universe, a new UCLA study implies. The team of astrophysicists and geochemists presents new evidence that the...
Weaving quantum processors out of laser light
An international team of scientists from Australia, Japan and the United States has produced a prototype of a large-scale quantum processor made of laser...
Dark matter tugs the most massive spiral galaxies to breakneck speeds
When it comes to galaxies, how fast is fast? The Milky Way, an average spiral galaxy, spins at a speed of 130 miles per...
New catalyst helps turn carbon dioxide into fuel
Imagine grabbing carbon dioxide from car exhaust pipes and other sources and turning this main greenhouse gas into fuels like natural gas or propane:...
Queuing for eternity: Fossils show lining up is primal urge
Ever felt like you've been queuing forever?
Scientists say fossils found in Morocco suggest the practice of forming orderly lines may date back 480 million...
Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death
Cells undergo natural aging and death, processes that impact a multitude of cellular factors. A new Stony Brook University-led study, to be published in PNAS,...
Scientists discover fractal patterns in a quantum material
A fractal is any geometric pattern that occurs again and again, at different sizes and scales, within the same object. This "self-similarity" can be...
How human brain development diverged from great apes
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have...
Researchers obtain the first mice born with hyper-long telomeres
A chance finding 10 years ago led to the creation by researchers of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) of the first mice...
Society’s tendency to denigrate kids these days is a ‘memory tic,’ says cognitive scientist
They're leaders in important social, environmental and political movements, finding ways to tackle the most pressing issues of our time, from climate change to...
Mathematical modelling vital to tackling disease outbreaks
Predicting and controlling disease outbreaks would be easier and more reliable with the wider application of mathematical modelling, according to a new study.
The study...
