An international team of scientists have dated a species of fossil monkey found across the Caribbean to just over 1 million years old.
Archaeology
Sep 4, 2015
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Is Donald Trump at war with science?
Political science
Jan 29, 2020
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The Japanese government intends to discharge all 1.34 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, an operation that began on 24 August 2023. Presumably, it also plans to discharge the wastewater ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2023
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At the University of Melbourne, a rare, eight-carat diamond has been smashed to smithereens in a bid to discover the secrets of its origin and a potential 'mother lode' of diamonds.
Condensed Matter
Nov 11, 2015
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144
Our planet formed around 4.54 billion years ago but few hints of this ancient world remain—just a small outcrop of rocks in northwestern Canada dating back 4.03 billion years and tiny crystals of the mineral zircon from ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 26, 2019
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,,Quantum computers are expected to offer tremendous computational power for complex problems –currently intractable even on supercomputers—in the areas of drug design, data science, astronomy and materials chemistry ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 17, 2020
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576
Sleep forms a basic part of our everyday lives, yet surprisingly little is known about its purpose and evolutionary history.
Evolution
Jun 10, 2016
0
28
Very low concentrations of the popular organic insecticide spinosad have profound effects on beneficial insect species, including vision loss and neurodegeneration, new research led by the University of Melbourne has found.
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2022
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475
Australians could see fewer suitable environments for the country's iconic eucalypt trees within a generation, according to a new international research project.
Ecology
Sep 20, 2016
0
11
The quest to uncover the nature of dark matter is one of the greatest challenges in science today, but the key to finally understanding this mysterious substance may well lie in the stars.
General Physics
Oct 26, 2021
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