When humans look out at a visual landscape like a sunset or a beautiful overlook, we experience something—we have a conscious awareness of what that scene looks like. This awareness of the visual world around us is central ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 29, 2021
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(Phys.org) —Yale University researchers have determined how a scarce molecule produced by marine bacteria can kill cancer cells, paving the way for the development of new, low-dose chemotherapies.
Biochemistry
May 12, 2014
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It turns out that the undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, didn't just eat other dinosaurs but also each other. Paleontologists from the United States and Canada have found bite marks on the giants' bones ...
Archaeology
Oct 15, 2010
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There appears to be an upper limit to how big the universe's most massive black holes can get, according to new research led by a Yale University astrophysicist.
Astronomy
Sep 11, 2008
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Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang—tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles—may account for all of the dark matter in the universe.
General Physics
Jan 4, 2022
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One of the world's largest ocean circulation systems may not be as stable as today's weather models predict, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2017
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The mating display of the male bird of paradise owes its optical extravagance to a background so black it is the envy of telescope and solar panel engineers, according to a new study published Jan. 9 in the journal Nature ...
Materials Science
Jan 10, 2018
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It's official. Yale physicists have chilled the world's coolest molecules.
General Physics
Aug 21, 2014
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If powerful new quantum computers are to reach their enormous potential, they will need amplifiers capable of transmitting signals so weak they consist of a single photon. In the May 6 edition of the journal ...
Quantum Physics
May 5, 2010
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A 20-year demographic study of a large chimpanzee community in Uganda's Kibale National Park has revealed that, under the right ecological conditions, our close primate relatives can lead surprisingly long lives in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2017
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