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Researchers discover 2 paths of aging and new insights on promoting healthspan
Molecular biologists and bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have unraveled key mechanisms behind the mysteries of aging. They isolated two distinct...
New study provides evidence for decades-old theory to explain the odd behaviors of water
Water, so ordinary and so essential to life, acts in ways that are quite puzzling to scientists. For example, why is ice less dense...
Why lava tubes should be our top exploration priority on other worlds
When magma comes out of the Earth onto the surface, it flows as lava. Those lava flows are fascinating to watch, and they leave...
Tiny bubbles make a quantum leap
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Montana State University report today that they have found that placing sufficient strain in a 2-D material—tungsten diselenide (WSe2)—creates...
The most ancient evidence of horsemanship in the bronze age
Scientists from South Ural State University (SUSU) have discovered new facts about the use of horses in the Bronze Age, working with materials from...
Scientists have discovered a new physical paradox
Researchers from the Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) have discovered and theoretically explained a new physical effect: amplitude of mechanical vibrations can...
Power of DNA to store information gets an upgrade
A team of interdisciplinary researchers has discovered a new technique to store in DNA information—in this case "The Wizard of Oz," translated into Esperanto—with...
Supercomputer reveals atmospheric impact of gigantic planetary collisions
The giant impacts that dominate late stages of planet formation have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres, according to...
Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
Why don't planets collide more often? How do planetary systems—like our solar system or multi-planet systems around other stars—organize themselves? Of all of the...
New models show how species will be relocated by climate change
Scientists at Duke University are harnessing the power of big data and geospatial analysis to create new ways to track the effects of climate...
Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed on manganese and use the metal as their source of calories. Such microbes were predicted to exist...
