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Researchers discover solid phosphorus from a comet
An international study led from the University of Turku discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from a comet. The finding indicates...
Stability of Earth’s biggest lump of ice at risk from warming...
The drastically increasing influence of humans on Earth's climate causes a melting of polar ice sheets and therefore a rise in global sea levels....
Graphene balloons to identify noble gases
New research by scientists from Delft University of Technology and the University of Duisburg-Essen uses the motion of atomically thin graphene to identify noble...
The solar system follows the galactic standard—but it is a rare...
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have investigated more than 1000 planetary systems orbiting stars in our own galaxy, the Milky...
Keyhole wasps may threaten aviation safety
Over a period of 39 months, invasive keyhole wasps (Pachodynerus nasidens) at the Brisbane Airport were responsible for 93 instances of fully blocked replica...
Hitting the quantum ‘sweet spot’: Researchers find best position for atom...
Researchers from the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) working with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) have located the 'sweet spot'...
Researchers offer new theory on ‘Venus’ figurines
One of world's earliest examples of art, the enigmatic 'Venus' figurines carved some 30,000 years ago, have intrigued and puzzled scientists for nearly two...
Unexpected similarity between honey bee and human social life
Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine. Yet despite their many differences, surprising similarities in the ways that they...
Air-filled fiber cables capable of outperforming standard optical fibers
The next generation of optical fiber could be a step closer as a new study has shown that fibers with a hollowed out center,...
In search for dark matter, new fountain design could become wellspring...
You can't see it. You can't feel it. But the substance scientists refer to as dark matter could account for five times as much...
Stable ocean circulation in changing north Atlantic Ocean, study finds
Ocean vertical structures are changing as a result of global warming. Whether these changes are in pace with the ocean circulation is unknown.
Now, an...
