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Full Space Station Mission Simulation Completed by Boeing’s Starliner System
Space Station Mission Simulation is a success. Past years were not good for Boeing at all. The company's flagship airliner 737 Max series of...
Yes, you can have more than 150 friends: New study deconstructs Dunbar’s number
An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as "Dunbar's number"—that the architecture of the...
Long-term monitoring shows successful restoration of mining-polluted streams
Many miles of streams and rivers in the United States and elsewhere are polluted by toxic metals in acidic runoff draining from abandoned mining...
A physics perspective on wound healing
In material physics understanding how systems interact across the interfaces separating them is of central interest. But can physical models clarify similar concepts in...
New bonobo genome fine tunes great ape evolution studies
Chimpanzees and bonobos diverged comparatively recently in great ape evolutionary history. They split into different species about 1.7 million years ago. Some of the...
Humans weren’t always agents of destruction when arriving on uninhabited islands
An international team of researchers led by Griffith University discovered the arrival of ancient humans to uninhabited islands doesn't always lead to widespread extinctions...
The oldest human burial in Africa uncovered
Despite being home to the earliest signs of modern human behavior, early evidence of burials in Africa are scarce and often ambiguous. Therefore, little...
Biologists discover a trigger for cell extrusion
For all animals, eliminating some cells is a necessary part of embryonic development. Living cells are also naturally sloughed off in mature tissues; for...
Plastic pollution in the deep sea: A geological perspective
A new focus article in the May issue of Geology summarizes research on plastic waste in marine and sedimentary environments. Authors I.A. Kane of the Univ....
Catastrophic sea-level rise from Antarctic melting possible with severe global warming
The Antarctic ice sheet is much less likely to become unstable and cause dramatic sea-level rise in upcoming centuries if the world follows policies...
New algorithm uses a hologram to control trapped ions
Researchers have discovered the most precise way to control individual ions using holographic optical engineering technology.
The new technology uses the first known holographic optical...
