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Study has implications for evolution of technology and culture in humans. Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for…
Study has implications for evolution of technology and culture in humans. Teach a chimpanzee to fish for insects to eat, and you feed her for…
Princeton scientists demonstrate that two silicon quantum bits can communicate across relatively long distances in a turning point for the technology. Imagine a world where…
Emerging fluctuation-based functionalities are expected to open a way to novel memory device technology. An international joint research team led by NIMS succeeded in fabricating…
By introducing a chemical cocktail to granulosa cells, researchers in China induced the cells to transform into functional oocytes in mice. Once fertilized, these oocytes…
The fact that our Universe is expanding was discovered almost a hundred years ago, but how exactly this happens, scientists realized only in the 90s…
Small fish are speedy and easy to scare. So how is it that a giant humpback whale, attacking at speeds about as fast as a…
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is…
A major issue with operating ring-shaped fusion facilities known as tokamaks is keeping the plasma that fuels fusion reactions free of impurities that could reduce…
New Generations, Equipped with New Technologies, Prepare to Analyze 50-Year-Old Samples in the New Year Fortunately for today’s scientists, Apollo-era leaders had the foresight to…
Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency. Crystalline silicon solar panels could be just…
How to tell if a brain is awake: EEG may not always be a reliable reflection of consciousness Remarkably, scientists are still debating just how…
Scientists have captured the birth of a high-speed ice feature for the first time on top of a Russian glacier. In a remote archipelago of…
Advances in the characterization of high dynamic range or HDR images: A set of techniques used in image processing that allow better viewing between the…
University of Chicago Team Discovers Innovative Way to Tune Quantum Signals After decades of miniaturization, the electronic components we’ve relied on for computers and modern…
Watermelon Supplements Bring Health Benefits to Obese Mice Eating watermelon in the form of powdered supplements helped adult obese mice avoid some detrimental health effects…
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) in a collaboration with the University of Groningen (UG) in the Netherlands, have developed a method to…
A team of scientists in Hungary recently published a paper that hints at the existence of a previously unknown subatomic particle. The team first reported…
Heat Energy Leaps Through Empty Space, Thanks to Quantum Fluctuations If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know…