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Going beyond the anti-laser may enable long-range wireless power transfer
Ever since Nikola Tesla spewed electricity in all directions with his coil back in 1891, scientists have been thinking up ways to send electrical...
Chromosomes look different than you think
In high school textbooks, human chromosomes are pictured as wonky Xs like two hotdogs jammed together. But those images are far from accurate. "For...
Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties
Researchers at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms have created tiny building blocks that exhibit a variety of unique mechanical properties, such as the...
In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties...
Researchers describe previously unknown mechanism for inducing electron emission in highly oriented pyrolitic graphite
It is something quite common in physics: electrons leave a certain material, they fly away and then they are measured. Some materials emit electrons,...
Greenland’s largest glaciers likely to melt faster than feared: study
The three largest glaciers in Greenland—which hold enough frozen water to lift global sea levels some 1.3 metres—could melt faster than even the worst-case...
New analysis refutes claim that dinosaurs were in decline before asteroid hit
A new study from researchers at the University of Bath and Natural History Museum looking at the diversity of dinosaurs shows that they were...
Researchers improve neuronal reprogramming by manipulating mitochondria
The replacement of lost neurons is a holy grail for neuroscience. A new promising approach is the conversion of glial cells into new neurons....
Researcher sets record for quantum chemistry calculation
A researcher from The Australian National University (ANU) has used one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to predict the quantum mechanical...
Gravitational lenses could hold the key to better estimates of the expansion of the...
The universe is expanding but astrophysicists aren't sure exactly how fast that expansion is happening—not because there aren't answers, but rather because the answers...
Does the human brain resemble the Universe?
An astrophysicist at the University of Bologna and a neurosurgeon at the University of Verona compared the network of neuronal cells in the human...
