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Researchers set new bounds on the mass of leptoquarks

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...