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Superconductivity – the ability of a material to transmit an electric current without loss – is a quantum effect that, despite years of research, is…
Superconductivity – the ability of a material to transmit an electric current without loss – is a quantum effect that, despite years of research, is…
Extensive X-ray screening reveals binding to key virus protein. A team of researchers, including scientists from the MPSD, has identified several candidates for drugs against…
The fossil skull of a woman in Czechia has provided the oldest modern human genome yet reconstructed, representing a population that formed before the ancestors…
The chest beats given by adult male gorillas reliably indicate their body size. Gorillas usually stand bipedally and rapidly beat their chests with cupped hands…
On March 21, 1991, the Asdex Upgrade experimental facility at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching generated the first plasma. For 30…
eROSITA space telescope finds largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-rays. In the first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG, astronomers at…
Because of their interactions and conflicts with the major contemporaneous civilizations of Eurasia, the Scythians enjoy a legendary status in historiography and popular culture. The…
Superconductivity is a complete loss of electrical resistance. Superconductors are not merely very good metals: it is a fundamentally different electronic state. In normal metals,…
A new large-scale study uncovers recent genetic connectivity between chimpanzee subspecies despite past isolation events. Researchers from the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee (PanAf)…
Researchers develop a low-cost and fast method to detect a COVID-19 infection from a pool of gargle lavage samples. Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR)…
An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Leiden University has discovered a whirlwind of dust and pebbles in orbit around a young…
Energy-providing bacterial endosymbiont enables its unicellular eukaryotic host to breathe nitrate, demonstrating that unicellular eukaryotes may acquire endosymbionts to complement or replace functions of their…
Periodic pattern consisting of magnons is formed at room temperature. A team of researchers has succeeded in creating a micrometer-sized space-time crystal consisting of magnons…
Long held in a private collection, the newly analyzed tooth of an approximately 9-year-old Neanderthal child marks the hominin’s southernmost known range. Analysis of the…
New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna. A new study…
Experts from the Natural History Museum, The Francis Crick Institute, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jena have joined together…
Competition among sperm cells is fierce – they all want to reach the egg cell first to fertilize it. A research team from Berlin now…
Research Shows How Language Humanizes AI Intelligent algorithms are used to create paintings, write poems, and compose music. According to a study by an international…