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Probing the properties of magnetic quasi-particles
Researchers have for the first time measured a fundamental property of magnets called magnon polarization—and in the process, are making progress towards building low-energy...
Oldest South American fossil lizard discovered in Brazil
Fossil remains of a novel species of lizard that lived more than 130 million years ago have been found in the north of Minas...
Alaska is getting wetter. That’s bad news for permafrost and the climate
Alaska is getting wetter. A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the...
Machine learning reveals recipe for building artificial proteins
Proteins are essential to the life of cells, carrying out complex tasks and catalyzing chemical reactions. Scientists and engineers have long sought to harness...
Wrong number of fingers leads down wrong track
Have you ever wondered why human hands have five fingers? And what about amphibians? They usually only have four. Until now, researchers assumed that...
Researchers create ‘decoy’ coatings that trick infrared cameras
Light can sometimes play tricks on our eyes. If you look at a shiny surface, what you see will largely depend on the surrounding...
New approach refines the Hubble’s constant and age of universe
Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations in Hubble's constant, a research team led by a University of Oregon astronomer...
Researchers offer unprecedented look into ‘central engine’ powering a solar flare
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the "central engine" of a large...
New paper squares economic choice with evolutionary survival
If given the chance, a Kenyan herder is likely to keep a mix of goats and camels. It seems like an irrational economic choice...
Researchers build first AI tool capable of identifying individual birds
New research demonstrates for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to train computers to recognize individual birds, a task humans...
Researchers develop an optical fiber made of gel derived from marine algae
An optical fiber made of agar has been produced at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This device...
