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18.5 million year old vine fossil identified as new species
An 18.5 million-year-old fossil found in Panama provides evidence of a new species and is the oldest reliable example of a climbing woody vine...
Scrap for cash: Bronze Age witnessed revolution in small change across Europe
How did people living in the Bronze Age manage their finances before money became widespread? Researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and Rome have...
Supernovae twins open up new possibilities for precision cosmology
Cosmologists have found a way to double the accuracy of measuring distances to supernova explosions -- one of their tried-and-true tools for studying the...
Massive molecular study uncovers clues to the evolution and diversification of essential plant family
The most comprehensive study of the family tree for legumes, the plant family that includes beans, soybeans, peanuts, and many other economically important crop...
Cellphone converts into powerful chemical detector
Scientists from Texas A&M have developed an extension to an ordinary cellphone that turns it into an instrument capable of detecting chemicals, drugs, biological...
Pyrosomes: Enigmatic marine inhabitants with an important role in the Cabo Verde ecosystem
Pyrosomes, named after the Greek words for 'fire bodies' due their bright bioluminescence, are pelagic tunicates that spend their entire lives swimming in the...
Cryptic sense of orientation of bats localized: The sixth sense of mammals lies in...
Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves...
Review: Most human origins stories are not compatible with known fossils
In the 150 years since Charles Darwin speculated that humans originated in Africa, the number of species in the human family tree has exploded,...
‘Molecular glue’ makes perovskite solar cells dramatically more reliable over time
A research team from Brown University has made a major step toward improving the long-term reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy...
Evading the uncertainty principle in quantum physics
The uncertainty principle, first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in the late 1920's, is a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics. In the quantum world, particles...
Sharks use Earth’s magnetic fields to guide them like a map
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched....
