Lately, there has been a flood of interest in gravitational waves. After the first official detection at LIGO / Virgo in 2015, data has been coming in showing how common these once theoretical phenomena actually are. Usually ...
Astronomy
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Even when they can't speak te reo Māori, New Zealanders have a surprisingly sophisticated knowledge of the language, newly published University of Canterbury research shows.
Other
Dec 21, 2020
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Santa's reindeer at Santa's Village in Jefferson, N.H., are more skilled at selecting stocks than U.S. Senators and members of Congress were in 2020, according to a Dartmouth study. In analyzing the performance of stocks ...
Economics & Business
Dec 21, 2020
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In research published in the International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, Peng Zhou of Cardiff University proposes a new filter technique that can separate the yolk from egg white, figuratively speaking. ...
Economics & Business
Dec 21, 2020
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Groundwater and its nutrients sustain the deep-rooted phreatophytes. However, how phreatophyte seedlings respond to water and nutrients in topsoil before their roots reach groundwater remains unclear.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2020
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Seahorses epitomize the exuberance of evolution. They have the unique characteristic of male pregnancy, which includes the carrying of many embryos in a brood pouch that incubates and nourishes the embryos, similar to the ...
Ecology
Dec 21, 2020
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A team of scientists from the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source at SLAC and Brookhaven National ...
Materials Science
Dec 21, 2020
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Bonobos, when abruptly interrupted in a social activity with another bonobo, resume it as soon as the interruption is over with the same partner. This ability—the feeling of mutual obligation when interacting—has previously ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2020
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Why do some ferroelectric materials display bubble-shaped patterning, while others display complex, labyrinthine patterns?
General Physics
Dec 21, 2020
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"Oobleck" is a strange fluid made of equal parts of cornstarch and water. It flows like milk when gently stirred, but turns rock-solid when impacted at high speed. This fascinating phenomenon, known as shear-thickening, results ...
General Physics
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