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Researchers set new bounds on the mass of leptoquarks
At the most fundamental level, matter is made up of two types of particles: leptons, such as the electron, and quarks, which combine to...
‘Poverty line’ concept debunked by new machine learning model
Mathematicians have used machine learning to develop a new model for measuring poverty in different countries that junks old notions of a fixed 'poverty...
Big Data will analyse the mystery of Beethoven’s metronome
Data science and physics research at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and UNED has analyzed a centuries-old controversy over Beethoven's annotations about the...
Tiny quantum computer solves real optimization problem
Quantum computers have already managed to surpass ordinary computers in solving certain tasks -- unfortunately, totally useless ones. The next milestone is to get...
Longest intergalactic gas filament discovered
More than half of the matter in our universe has so far remained hidden from us. However, astrophysicists had a hunch where it might...
Dark storm on neptune reverses direction, possibly shedding a fragment
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue...
Unique prediction of ‘modified gravity’ challenges dark matter theory
An international group of scientists, including Case Western Reserve University Astronomy Chair Stacy McGaugh, has published research contending that a rival idea to the...
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanet
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation...
Whole genomes map pathways of chimpanzee and bonobo divergence
Chimpanzees and bonobos are sister species that diverged around 1.8 million years ago as the Congo River formed a geographic boundary and they evolved...
Ultracold atoms reveal a new type of quantum magnetic behavior
A new study illuminates surprising choreography among spinning atoms. In a paper appearing in the journal Nature, researchers from MIT and Harvard University reveal how...
World’s earliest python identified from 47 million-year-old fossil remains
Together with his colleague Hussam Zaher of the University in São Paulo, Senckenberg scientist Krister Smith described the world's oldest known fossils of a...