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Stacking and twisting graphene unlocks a rare form of magnetism
Since the discovery of graphene more than 15 years ago, researchers have been in a global race to unlock its unique properties. Not only...
Scientists engineer bacteria-killing molecules from wasp venom
A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has engineered powerful new antimicrobial molecules from toxic...
Tetrahedra may explain water’s uniqueness
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo sifted through experimental data to probe the possibility that supercooled water has...
Astronomers produce largest 3-D catalog of galaxies
A team of astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has produced the world's largest three-dimensional astronomical imaging catalog...
Researchers use artificial intelligence language tools to decode molecular movements
By applying natural language processing tools to the movements of protein molecules, University of Maryland scientists created an abstract language that describes the multiple...
Ice melt projections may underestimate Antarctic contribution to sea level rise
Fluctuations in the weather can have a significant impact on melting Antarctic ice, and models that do not include this factor can underestimate the...
How SARS-CoV-2 disables the human cellular alarm system
As the world is more than half a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors and researchers have a fairly good idea of what the...
Birds share food with less fortunate conspecifics
People aren't the only ones who show sympathy. Birds also seem to care about the fate of conspecifics. They notice how much food the...
‘Universal law of touch’ will enable new advances in virtual reality
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team,...
A new look at sunspots
NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up—one of the agency's spacecraft is even on its way to fly...
Evidence of top quarks in collisions between heavy nuclei
The result of recent research by the CMS collaboration opens the path to study in a new and unique way an extreme state of...
