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‘Magic-angle’ trilayer graphene may be a rare, magnet-proof superconductor
New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers.
MIT physicists have observed signs of a rare type...
Artificially designed, amyloid-silk hybrid protein developed in Zhang lab even outperforms some spider silks
Spider silk is said to be one of the strongest, toughest materials on the Earth. Now engineers at Washington University in St. Louis have...
DNA from 93-year-old butterfly confirms the first US case of human-led insect extinction
The last of the Xerces blue butterflies fluttered through the air in San Francisco in the early 1940s. Now, they can only be seen...
First lethal attacks by chimpanzees on gorillas observed
Chimpanzees have been observed attacking and killing gorillas in the wild for the first time. Researchers working in the Loango National Park in the...
Making clean hydrogen is hard, but researchers just solved a major hurdle
Researchers have found a low-cost way to solve one half of the water-splitting equation to produce hydrogen as clean energy -- using sunlight to...
A bug’s life: Millimeter-tall mountains on neutron stars
New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due to the huge gravity on the...
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows
A study published Friday in the journal Science Advances shows that just a sliver of our genome is uniquely shared with other humans, and...
Rare stone discovered outlining ancient Rome’s city limits
Archaeologists have discovered a rare stone delineating the city limits of ancient Rome that dates from the age of Emperor Claudius in 49 A.D....
Building a detailed seafloor map to reveal the ocean’s unknowns
Scientists are building an accurate seafloor map can improve oceanographic and climate models, secure marine navigation, inform defence operations, and guide environmental decisions.
Marine scientists...
Scientists take first snapshots of ultrafast switching in a quantum electronic device
Discovery of a short-lived state that could lead to faster and more energy-efficient computing devices.
Electronic circuits that compute and store information contain millions of...
New evidence of an anomalous phase of matter brings energy-efficient technologies closer
Researchers have found evidence for an anomalous phase of matter that was predicted to exist in the 1960s. Harnessing its properties could pave the...
