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How planets may form after dust sticks together
Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help...
Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist, and grab
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University has developed a soft polymer material, called magnetic shape...
Study: Favorable environments for large hail increasing across U.S.
A group of atmospheric scientists have uncovered an environmental footprint that could help explain why the cost of hailstorm damage is rapidly increasing in...
Proton-hydrogen collision model could impact fusion research
The motions of plasmas may be notoriously difficult to model, but they can be better understood by analysing what happens when protons are scattered...
Secrets of orangutan language revealed
"Climb on me", "climb on you" and "resume play" are among the requests wild orangutans make to each other, researchers say.
In the first in-depth...
A tech jewel: Converting graphene into diamond film
Can two layers of the "king of the wonder materials," i.e. graphene, be linked and converted to the thinnest diamond-like material, the "king of...
Researchers identify ‘Achilles’ heel’ of drug-resistant superbug
A deadly superbug that infects an estimated 54,500 Americans a year has a secret weapon, a protein, that allows it to defy antibiotic treatment...
In a split second, clothes make the man more competent in...
People perceive a person's competence partly based on subtle economic cues emanating from the person's clothing, according to a study published in Nature Human Behaviour by...
Newly identified jet-stream pattern could imperil global food supplies, says study
Scientists have identified systematic meanders in the globe-circling northern jet stream that have caused simultaneous crop-damaging heat waves in widely separated breadbasket regions-a previously...
How Enceladus got its stripes
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is of great interest to scientists due to its subsurface ocean, making it a prime target for those searching for...
CRISPR-resistant viruses build ‘safe rooms’ to shield genomes from DNA-dicing enzymes
Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are engaged in a molecular arms race as ancient as life itself. Evolution has equipped bacteria with...













