Einstein predicted that time slows down the faster you travel and the time-dilation hypothesis has since been proven by flying atomic clocks on aircraft.
Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2019
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It has long been known that a quarry near the Dutch town of Winterswijk is an Eldorado for fossil lovers. But even connoisseurs will be surprised just how outstanding the site actually is. A student at the University of Bonn, ...
Archaeology
Jan 15, 2019
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International finance markets lagged behind punters having a flutter when it came to getting the Brexit result right on EU referendum night, according to research.
Economics & Business
Jan 11, 2019
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At a fleeting glance, the study of life – biology – seems very separate from that of rocks, or geology.
Earth Sciences
Dec 19, 2018
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Friendship bonds that may seem superficial at first glance could be just deep enough to produce attitude changes that help spark social transformations, according to a Penn State sociologist.
Social Sciences
Dec 13, 2018
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Our prehistoric Earth, bombarded with asteroids and lightning, rife with bubbling geothermal pools, may not seem hospitable today. But somewhere in the chemical chaos of our early planet, life did form. How? For decades, ...
Biochemistry
Dec 3, 2018
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Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is, along with DNA and protein, one of the three primary biological macromolecules and was probably the first to arise in early life forms. In the "RNA world" hypothesis, RNA is able to support life ...
Biochemistry
Nov 6, 2018
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Finnish and American researchers in evolutionary biology conducted an online experiment and survey revealing that women prefer and are more likely to invest in their daughters and men in their sons. The study was designed ...
Evolution
Nov 5, 2018
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Scientists at Scripps Research and their collaborators have created microorganisms that may recapitulate key features of organisms thought to have lived billions of years ago, allowing them to explore questions about how ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 29, 2018
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A new paper recently released in Geology by researchers Jacob Mulder, Karl Karlstrom, and other Australian colleagues provides a new dataset that may resolve the more than three decades-long debate about which continents ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2018
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