Researchers have produced new evidence of how graphene, when twisted to a precise angle, can become a superconductor, moving electricity with no loss of energy.
Superconductivity
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When neutron stars collide they produce an explosion that is, contrary to what was believed until recently, shaped like a perfect sphere. Although how this is possible is still a mystery, the discovery may provide a new key ...
Astronomy
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Researchers have used nearly half a million fossils to solve a 200-year-old scientific mystery: why the number of different species is greatest near the equator and decreases steadily toward the polar regions. The results—published ...
Ecology
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The rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica appears to be driven by different processes under its floating ice shelf than researchers previously understood. Novel observations from where the ice enters the ocean ...
Earth Sciences
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Studying changes in marine biogeographic patterns and the factors impacting these patterns over geological time can help scientists understand current responses in organisms due to human-driven climate change. For instance, ...
Environment
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Advances in computing power over the decades have come thanks in part to our ability to make smaller and smaller transistors, a building block of electronic devices, but we are nearing the limit of the silicon materials typically ...
Nanomaterials
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A team of biologists from Rothamsted Research, the University of Bristol and Curtis Analytics Limited—all in the U.K.—has used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing system to knock out the asparagine gene in wheat grown in real-world ...
Pinus kesiya and its sister species Pinus yunnanensis form savanna and forest communities in tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia (SEA). Their ranges overlap in southern Yunnan and have a wide zone of contact. To date, ...
Evolution
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Climate change and worsening severe weather events pose increasing threats to global water safety, with limited access to safe water projected to impact approximately 5 billion people worldwide by the year 2050, according ...
Environment
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists set out to address one of the biggest uncertainties about how carbon-rich permafrost will respond to gradual sinking of the land surface as temperatures rise. Using a high-performance ...
Earth Sciences
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