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To predict an epidemic, evolution can’t be ignored

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When scientists try to predict the spread of something across populations—anything from a coronavirus to misinformation—they use complex mathematical models to do so. Typically,...

Early Earth may have been a ‘waterworld’

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Kevin Costner, eat your heart out. New research shows that the early Earth, home to some of our planet's first lifeforms, may have been...

Carbon chains adopt fusilli or spaghetti shapes if they have odd...

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Helical shapes are very familiar in the natural world and, at the molecular level, of DNA, the very blueprint of life itself. Scientists at the...

Two stars merged to form massive white dwarf

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A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs merged together according to an international team led by...

Fish school by randomly copying each other, rather than following the...

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Fish school by copying each other and changing directions randomly, rather than calculating and adapting to an average direction of the group, a group...

Researchers find string theory link in a class of complex numbers

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A collaboration of a mathematician and a physicist has shown that the modular forms associated with elliptic curves with complex multiplications are expressed in...

Scientists seize rare chance to watch faraway star system evolve

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At only 1% the age of the sun, the DS Tuc binary system shows us how a planet might naturally develop before its orbit...

Scientists measure electron spin qubit without demolishing it

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A group of scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan has succeeded in taking repeated measurements of the spin of...

Egg stem cells do not exist, new study shows

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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have analyzed all cell types in the human ovary and found that the hotly debated "egg stem cells"...

Study reveals link between income inequality and French kissing

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Income inequality may be linked to how often people French kiss, according to a worldwide study by Abertay University. The cross-cultural research involved 2,300 participants...

New study explains why superconductivity takes place in graphene

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Graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms, has many extreme electrical and mechanical properties. Two years ago, researchers showed how two sheets laid on...