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Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnifying lens

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Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly...

Investing in love and affection pays off for species that mate...

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The males of species that form long-lasting pair-bonds, like many birds, often continue to make elaborate displays of plumage, colors and dances after they...

Lakes worldwide are experiencing more severe algal blooms

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The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater...

Study shows a much cheaper catalyst can generate hydrogen in a...

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Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a cheap catalyst can...

Scientists pinpoint cause of harmful dendrites and whiskers in lithium batteries

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Scientists have uncovered a root cause of the growth of needle-like structures—known as dendrites and whiskers—that plague lithium batteries, sometimes causing a short circuit,...

The nano-guitar string that plays itself

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Scientists at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford have created a nano-electronic circuit which vibrates without any external force. Using a tiny suspended wire, resembling...

Scientists reveal mechanism of electron charge exchange in molecules

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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a new scanning transmission electron microscopy method that enables visualization of the electric charge density...

Researchers design new material using artificial intelligence

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Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new supercompressible but strong material without conducting any experimental tests at all, using only artificial intelligence (AI)....

Black holes stunt growth of dwarf galaxies

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Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive black holes in the centers of dwarf galaxies have...

Private property, not productivity, precipitated Neolithic agricultural revolution

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Humankind first started farming in Mesopotamia about 11,500 years ago. Subsequently, the practices of cultivating crops and raising livestock emerged independently at perhaps a...

Six degrees of nuclear separation

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Argonne scientists look to 3-D printing to ease separation anxiety, which paves the way to recycle more nuclear material. Astronauts now print their own parts in space...