Surprising Dinosaur Discovery: Ankylosaur Was Sluggish and Deaf
Fossil braincase provides new surprising insights. German and Austrian scientists took a closer look at the braincase of a dinosaur from Austria. The group examined…
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Why Do Humans Possess a Twisted Birth Canal? Unraveling an Evolutionary Puzzle
Extraordinary shape makes births more difficult, but guarantees stability. The relatively narrow human birth canal presumably evolved as a “compromise” between its abilities for parturition,…
Physicists Reveal Prethermal Discrete Time Crystals As Classical Phases of Matter
An international team of physicists has shown that novel non-equilibrium phases of matter — called prethermal discrete time crystals (DTCs) — can emerge in classical…
Can We See Quantum Nonlocality at the Macroscopic Scale?
Scientists from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have shown that it is possible to fully preserve the mathematical structure of…
How Special Are We? New Clues to the Formation of Our Solar System
Nearby star-forming region yields clues to the formation of our solar system. The radioactive elements could have been blown onto the nascent solar system by…
3D Magnetic Nanonetwork Breakthrough Could Enable New Generation of 3D Storage Technologies
Emergent Magnetic Monopoles Controlled at Room Temperature Three dimensional (3D) nano-network promise a new era in modern solid state physics with numerous applications in photonics,…
Fear of COVID-19: Psychological, Not Environmental Factors Are Important
During pandemics, protective behaviors need to be motivated by effective communication. A critical factor in understanding a population’s response to such a threat is the…
New Species of Ancient Shark Discovered
In a new study, an international team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes a fossil skeleton of an ancient shark, which…
Microbial Life of a Pure Martian Design
Experimental microbially assisted chemolithotrophy provides an opportunity to trace the putative bioalteration processes of the Martian crust. A study on the Noachian Martian breccia Northwest…
Playing Games With Quantum Interference to Solve a Mysterious Physics Puzzle
As Richard Feynman famously put it, “the double slit experiment is absolutely impossible to explain in any classical way and has in it the heart…
Encrypted Quantum Computing: When Ignorance Is Wanted
Quantum technologies for computers open up new concepts of preserving the privacy of input and output data of a computation. Scientists from the University of…
Surprising Study Finds Sweet Taste Can Reduce Appetite
The sweet taste of sugar, energy intake and the regulatory process of hunger and satiety. The sweet taste of sugar is very popular worldwide. In…
Native Biodiversity Collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean – Most Native Species Are Going Locally Extinct
Most native species are going locally extinct, while introduced tropical species thrive. The coastline of Israel is one of the warmest areas in the Mediterranean…
Extraordinary Diversity: Unusual Sex Chromosomes of Platypus, Emu and Duck
Three papers unveil the extraordinary diversity of animal sex chromosomes. The sex chromosomes genetically define the developmental fate of an embryo to become a male…
Finding Lost Star Siblings: Star Clusters Are Only the Tip of the Iceberg
“Clusters form big families of stars that can stay together for large parts of their lifetime. Today, we know of roughly a few thousand star…
From the Big Bang to the Present: Gravity Is Why the Universe Is So Uniform
The temporal evolution of the universe, from the Big Bang to the present, is described by Einstein’s field equations of general relativity. However, there are…
New Fundamental Limits Beyond the Standard Laws of Thermodynamics Found in Maxwell’s Demon Experiment
Researchers at the Universities Vienna and Stuttgart have investigated a version of Maxwell’s demon embodied by a delayed feedback force acting on a levitated microparticle….
Migrations Reconstructed Through Ancient DNA: Each Mediterranean Island Has Its Own Genetic Pattern
The Mediterranean Sea has been a major route for maritime migrations as well as frequent trade and invasions during prehistory, yet the genetic history of…