Two COVID-19 pandemic curves emerged within many cities during the one-year period from March 2020 to March 2021.
General Physics
Jun 22, 2021
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A population of bridled nailtail wallabies in Queensland has been brought back from the brink of extinction after conservation scientists led by UNSW Sydney successfully trialled an intervention technique never before used ...
Plants & Animals
May 24, 2021
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A new system capable of identifying complex molecular signatures could aid in the search for alien life in the universe and could even lead to the creation of new forms of life in the laboratory, scientists say.
Astrobiology
May 24, 2021
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Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have discovered a new spintronic phenomenon—a persistent rotation of chiral-spin structure.
Condensed Matter
May 21, 2021
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Scientists at the theoretical institutes, Chinese Academy of Science and Cybermedia Center at Osaka University performed extensive computer simulations to generate and examine random packing of spheres. They show that the ...
General Physics
May 6, 2021
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When people are asked to draw the flower of a sunflower plant, almost everyone draws a large circle encircled by yellow petals.
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2021
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A team of researchers from the University of Oklahoma, and one from the University of Notre Dame, has found that on July 27, 2019, approximately 46 million pallid-winged grasshoppers hovered over Las Vegas, Nevada—one of ...
A camera-trap study in the Mendocino National Forest in Northern California reveals that black bears are adept at finding and stealing the remains of adult deer killed by pumas. This "kleptoparasitism" by bears, as scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2021
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The Abel Prize, which honours achievements in mathematics, was awarded Wednesday to Hungarian Laszlo Lovasz and Israeli Avi Wigderson for their contributions to computer security, the Norwegian Academy of Science said.
Mathematics
Mar 17, 2021
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A new study at ISOLDE finds no signature of a "magic" number of neutrons in potassium-51, challenging the proposed magic nature of nuclei with 32 neutrons.
General Physics
Feb 19, 2021
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