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Earth Sciences Oct 14, 2025

Paleomagnetic analysis could map the ancient history of Earth's surface

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists.

Social Sciences Aug 21, 2025

Grandparenting from a distance: What's lost when families are separated, and how to bridge the gap

Becoming a grandparent is often envisioned as a deeply intimate, hands-on journey, holding a newborn, sharing first smiles, witnessing the first wobbly steps. It is traditionally grounded in physical presence, marked by spontaneous ...

Archaeology Aug 14, 2023

Rising seas and a great southern star: Aboriginal oral traditions stretch back more than 12,000 years

How long do you think stories can be passed down, generation to generation?

Astronomy Aug 29, 2022

X-shaped radio galaxies might form more simply than expected

When astronomers use radio telescopes to gaze into the night sky, they typically see elliptical-shaped galaxies, with twin jets blasting from either side of their central supermassive black hole. But every once in a while—less ...

Astronomy Oct 21, 2021

NEID spectrometer lights up path to exoplanet exploration

A new NASA instrument will look for planets by detecting subtle wobbles from their parent stars. To prepare, it will study the sun.

Astronomy Jul 20, 2021

Exoplanet discovery tool begins its mission

The NEID spectrometer, a new tool for the discovery of planets outside of our solar system, has now started its scientific mission at the WIYN 3.5m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona.

General Physics Jun 12, 2020

Physicists publish worldwide consensus of muon magnetic moment calculation

For decades, scientists studying the muon have been puzzled by a strange pattern in the way muons rotate in magnetic fields, one that left physicists wondering if it can be explained by the Standard Model—the best tool physicists ...

Social Sciences Feb 26, 2019

Studying an emerging sign language won't kill it – so what are linguists scared of?

Connie de Vos was sitting on her hands. It was 2006, her first stay in the Balinese village of Bengkala, and visitors had come every night to her house, sitting on the floor of the front patio, eating fruit- or durian-flavoured ...

Engineering Feb 4, 2019

Virtually reality: Future factories run by digital twins

A*STAR has built a testbed for digital twins, the virtual counterparts of real manufacturing equipment. These factory innovations could help companies save huge amounts of time and money by predicting and adjusting for their ...

Cell & Microbiology Dec 13, 2017

Clathrin assembly defines the onset and geometry of cortical patterning

Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore, report that endocytosis, which was previously thought to be a random process, actually occurs in a coordinated manner ...

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