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Atmospheric dust levels are rising in the Great Plains
Got any spaces left on that 2020 bingo card? Pencil in "another Dust Bowl in the Great Plains." A study from University of Utah...
Restoring 30% of the world’s ecosystems in priority areas could stave...
Returning specific ecosystems that have been replaced by farming to their natural state in all continents worldwide would rescue the majority of land-based species...
A newly discovered protein repairs DNA
Researchers from the University of Seville, in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Murcia and Marburg (Germany) have identified a new protein that...
Bringing a power tool from math into quantum computing
The Fourier transform is an important mathematical tool that decomposes a function or dataset into a its constituent frequencies, much like one could decompose...
Popularity of COVID-19 conspiracies and links to vaccine ‘hesitancy’ revealed by...
A new study of beliefs and attitudes toward COVID-19 in five different countries—UK, US, Ireland, Mexico and Spain—has identified how much traction some prominent...
World first study shows that some microorganisms can bend the rules...
The dominant thinking in evolution focuses on inheritance between parent and offspring – or 'vertical gene transfer (VGT)'.
But now scientists are paying more attention...
Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light
A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory...
The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter...
At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. Astronomers have...
Simulations reveal that rocky super-Earths with thin atmospheres are often protected...
An international group of astronomers, led by Martin Schlecker of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, has found that the arrangement of rocky, gaseous...
In the eye of a stellar cyclone: Bizarre secrets of a...
While on COVID lockdown, a University of Sydney honours student has written a research paper on a star system dubbed one of the "exotic...
Generating photons for communication in a quantum computing system
MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected to a microwave transmission line have shown how the qubits can generate on demand the photons, or...
