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Why there are so many species at the equator and so few at the...
Earth is teeming with strange life forms—crabs with 12-foot-long legs scuttling off the Japanese coast, mushrooms that glow at night in eastern North America,...
For the first time, astronomers catch asteroid in the act of changing color
Last December, scientists discovered an "active" asteroid within the asteroid belt, sandwiched between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The space rock, designated by...
New MIT paper outlines plan to fight election interference
One of the most urgent threats facing our democracy and other democracies abroad is the ability to detect and thwart foreign election interference. But,...
Tiny thermometer measures how mitochondria heat up the cell by unleashing proton energy
Armed with a tiny new thermometer probe that can quickly measure temperature inside of a cell, University of Illinois researchers have illuminated a mysterious...
New artifacts suggest people arrived in North America earlier than previously thought
Stone tools and other artifacts unearthed from an archeological dig at the Cooper's Ferry site in western Idaho suggest that people lived in the...
First human ancestors breastfed for longer than contemporary relatives
By analysing the fossilised teeth of some of our most ancient ancestors, a team of scientists led by the universities of Bristol (UK) and...
Brain waves detected in mini-brains grown in a dish
Scientists have created miniature brains from stem cells that developed functional neural networks. Despite being a million times smaller than human brains, these lab-grown...
Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiber
The quantum internet promises absolutely tap-proof communication and powerful distributed sensor networks for new science and technology. However, because quantum information cannot be copied,...
Physicists create device for imitating biological memory
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have created a device that acts like a synapse in the living brain, storing information...
Providing a solution to the worst-ever prediction in physics
The cosmological constant, introduced a century ago by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity, is a thorn in the side of physicists....
Engineers build advanced microprocessor out of carbon nanotubes
After years of tackling numerous design and manufacturing challenges, MIT researchers have built a modern microprocessor from carbon nanotube transistors, which are widely seen...
