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Casimir force used to control and manipulate objects
A collaboration between researchers from the University of Western Australia and the University of California Merced has provided a new way to measure tiny...
CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process
At the 40th ICHEP conference, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons. The muon...
Disposed PPE could be turned into biofuel, study shows
Plastic from used personal protective equipment (PPE) can, and should, be transformed into renewable liquid fuels—according to a new study, published in the peer-reviewed...
Surface clean-up technology won’t solve ocean plastic problem
Clean-up devices that collect waste from the ocean surface won't solve the plastic pollution problem, a new study shows.
Researchers compared estimates of current and...
An insect species can actively escape from the vents of predators...
Prey can evade predators and also avoid attacks. However, some can escape from inside a predator after being swallowed. For example, some animals that...
Your hair knows what you eat and how much your haircut...
Millimeter by millimeter, your hair is building a record of your diet. As hair strands are built from amino acids that come from your...
Scientists discover secret behind Earth’s biodiversity hotspots
The research suggests that biodiversity hotspots—such as the Daintree Rainforest in Australia and the Cloud Forests of Ecuador—are teeming with species because they have...
Black hole fails to do its job
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA's Chandra...
Unequal neutron-star mergers create unique ‘bang’ in simulations
When two neutron stars slam together, the result is sometimes a black hole that swallows all but the gravitational evidence of the collision. However,...
Early Mars was covered in ice sheets, not flowing rivers: study
A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars's surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously...
Neanderthal DNA contributes to genetic diversity, bringing more understanding to human...
The advent of DNA sequencing has given scientists a clearer insight into the interconnectedness of evolution and the web-like path that different organisms take,...
