(Phys.org)—China's Chang'e-3 mission landed on the moon in December 2013 and deployed a lunar rover known as Yutu or Jade Rabbit; it also carried a robotic telescope designed to observe various celestial objects such as ...
You might be disappointed to hear that some intriguing underwater structures recently discovered off the Greek island of Zakynthos are not part of the lost city of Atlantis. But the structures, which resemble colonnades of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2016
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Researchers at Yale University traced how a cluster of water molecules adapts to incorporate an extra proton, the positively charged subatomic particle, in the formation of an aqueous acid. Their spectroscopic "snapshot" ...
Materials Science
Aug 8, 2016
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Is there a reproducibility crisis in science? A recent news feature published in Nature is only the latest piece to suggest that there may be.
Other
Aug 8, 2016
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Close contact between badgers and cattle may not be responsible for the transmission of bovine tuberculosis, according to a new paper.
Ecology
Aug 8, 2016
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New experimental results show a difference in the way neutrinos and antineutrinos behave, which could explain why matter persists over antimatter.
General Physics
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A new rapid 3-D imaging system offers a non-invasive approach to accurately monitoring tumour development in adult zebrafish.
Biochemistry
Aug 8, 2016
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Researchers at the joint CSIC-University of Valencia Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, Cristina Vilanova and Manuel Porcar, have proposed a change in the way massive sequencing studies into the microbial composition ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2016
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EPFL scientists have invented a new type of "acoustic prism" that can split a sound into its constituent frequencies. Their acoustic prism has applications in sound detection.
General Physics
Aug 8, 2016
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Conversations with physicist Ralf Jungmann demand a great deal of concentration. He takes one at a sizzling pace through a world that is inconceivably minute, a world which, according to the laws of optics, is not directly ...
Nanophysics
Aug 8, 2016
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