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Superconductivity May 9, 2024

Quantum breakthrough sheds light on perplexing high-temperature superconductors

Superfast levitating trains, long-range lossless power transmission, faster MRI machines—all these fantastical technological advances could be in our grasp if we could just make a material that transmits electricity without ...

Biotechnology May 9, 2024

AlphaFold 3 upgrade enables the prediction of other types of biomolecular systems

A combined team of medical researchers and AI systems specialists from Google's Deep Mind project and Isomorphic Labs, both in London, has made what the group describes as substantial improvements to AlphaFold 2 that make ...

Archaeology May 6, 2024

Artifacts from the First Temple in the city of David accurately dated for a more precise timeline

A team of archaeologists, antiquities specialists, Bible scholars and mass spectrometry specialists, affiliated with several institutions in Israel working with one colleague from the U.K. and another from the U.S., has dated ...

General Physics May 3, 2024

The BREAD Collaboration is searching for dark photons using a coaxial dish antenna

Approximately 80% of the matter in the universe is predicted to be so-called "dark matter," which does not emit, reflect, or absorb light and thus cannot be directly detected using conventional experimental techniques.

Evolution May 2, 2024

International team cracks genomic code for earliest forms of terrestrial plant life

Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago, and an international research team co-led by University of Nebraska–Lincoln computational biologist Yanbin Yin has cracked the genomic code of its humble beginnings, ...

Astronomy Apr 30, 2024

Researchers explore an old galactic open cluster

Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from Turkey and India have investigated NGC 188—an old open cluster in the Milky Way. Results of the study, published April 19 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver important ...

General Physics Apr 29, 2024

Laser excitation of Th-229 nucleus: New findings suggest classical quantum physics and nuclear physics can be combined

Physicists have been hoping for this moment for a long time: For many years, scientists all around the world have been searching for a very specific state of thorium atomic nuclei that promises revolutionary technological ...

Plants & Animals Apr 24, 2024

Vast DNA tree of life for plants revealed by global science team using 1.8 billion letters of genetic code

A new paper published today (April 24) in the journal Nature by an international team of 279 scientists led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew presents the most up-to-date understanding of the flowering plant tree of life.

General Physics Apr 23, 2024

Hunting for the elusive: IceCube observes seven potential tau neutrinos

Researchers at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica have found seven signals that could potentially indicate tau neutrinos—which are famously hard to detect—from astrophysical objects.

Cell & Microbiology Apr 16, 2024

Spiraling insights: Scientists observe mechanical waves in bacterial communities

A new study by researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong has reported the emergence of mechanical spiral waves in bacterial matter.

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