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Scientists create atomic scale, 2-D electronic kagome lattice
Scientists from the University of Wollongong (UOW), working with colleagues at China's Beihang University, Nankai University, and Institute of Physics at Chinese Academy of...
Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil...
Until recently, scientists thought of viruses as mostly small infectious agents, tiny compared to typical bacteria and human cells. So imagine the surprise when...
Freeze-frame microscopy captures molecule’s ‘lock-and-load’ on DNA
Pushing the limits of cryo-electron microscopy, University of California, Berkeley, scientists have captured freeze-frames of the changing shape of a huge molecule, one of...
Scientists explain how wombats drop cubed poop
Wombats, the chubby and beloved, short-legged marsupials native to Australia, are central to a biological mystery in the animal kingdom: How do they produce...
Researchers have created a virtual reality simulation of a supermassive black...
The black hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, has been visualised in virtual reality for the first time. The details are...
Earth’s magnetotail: First-ever views of elusive energy explosion
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have captured a difficult-to-view singular event involving "magnetic reconnection" -- the process by which sparse particles and...
Solar panels for yeast cell biofactories
Genetically engineered microbes such as bacteria and yeasts have long been used as living factories to produce drugs and fine chemicals. More recently, researchers...
Dietary fat is good? Dietary fat is bad? Coming to consensus
Which is better, a low-fat/high-carbohydrate diet or a high-fat/low-carbohydrate diet -- or is it the type of fat that matters? In a new paper...
Trans-galactic streamers feeding most luminous galaxy in the universe
The most luminous galaxy in the universe has been caught in the act of stripping away nearly half the mass from at least three...
Infinite-dimensional symmetry opens up possibility of a new physics—and new particles
The symmetries that govern the world of elementary particles at the most elementary level could be radically different from what has so far been...
Tiny raptor tracks lead to big discovery
Tracks made by dinosaurs the size of sparrows have been discovered in South Korea by an international team of palaeontologists.
University of Queensland researcher Dr....
