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Why there is no speed limit in the superfluid universe
Physicists from Lancaster University have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit in a continuation of earlier Lancaster research.
Helium-3 is...
Like humans, chimpanzees can suffer for life if orphaned before adulthood
Researchers observed three chimpanzee communities of the Tai National Park. They kept full demographic records and collected fecal samples to conduct paternity tests on...
VLBA makes first direct distance measurement to magnetar
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have made the first direct geometric measurement of the distance to a magnetar...
Botanists unearth new ‘vampire plant’ in UK carpark
Scientists Dr. Chris Thorogood at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, and Dr. Fred Rumsey at London's Natural History Museum have just described a...
Astronomers capture stellar winds in unprecedented detail
Astronomers have presented an explanation for the shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on a set of observations of stellar winds around...
Supercooled water is a stable liquid, scientists show for the first...
Supercooled water is really two liquids in one. That's the conclusion reached by a research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest...
Researchers discover effective pathway to convert carbon dioxide into ethylene
A research team from Caltech and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated a promising way to efficiently convert carbon dioxide into ethylene—an...
A scientific first: How psychedelics bind to key brain cell receptor
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline cause severe and often long-lasting hallucinations, but they show great potential in treating serious psychiatric conditions,...
Ecologists sound alarm on plastic pollution
Ecologists studying the prevalence of plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems around the world are concerned after measuring the scale of human response needed to...
Could breadfruit be the next superfood?
A fruit used for centuries in countries around the world is getting the nutritional thumbs-up from a team of British Columbia researchers.
Breadfruit, which grows...
Mapping cavefish brains leads to neural origin of behavioral evolution
For more than 1 million years, independent cavefish populations that are geographically and hydrologically isolated from one another have evolved to include about 29...