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Archaeology Feb 24, 2022

What medieval skeletons tell us about modern day pandemics

A young woman walks Trondheim's streets 800 years ago, carrying a secret in her body. It's 150 years before the plague—the Black Death—but this young women is sick with a disease that no one thought was found in Europe ...

Astronomy Feb 2, 2022

Shadow of cosmic water cloud reveals the temperature of the young universe

An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background temperature of the young Universe only 880 million years after the Big Bang. It is the first time that the ...

Plants & Animals Jan 13, 2022

Scientists discover the gene that codes for the gold coloration of Midas cichlids

All he touched turned to gold, according to the legend of King Midas from Greek mythology.

Earth Sciences Dec 15, 2021

New findings on the occurrence of rare earth metals outside of Grännaa

New technologies and expanding electrification mean a growing need for both common and uncommon metals, such as rare earth metals. One of Europe's largest deposits is in Norra Kärr outside of Gränna.

Environment Nov 1, 2021

How 1.5 C temperature rise can cause significant changes in coastal species

A temperature increase of around 1.5°C—just under the maximum target agreed at the COP23 Paris meeting in 2017—can have a marked impact on algae and animal species living on UK coastlines, new research has found.

Other Oct 2, 2021

Scientists decipher Marie Antoinette's redacted love notes

"Not without you." "My dear friend." "You that I love."

Astronomy Sep 14, 2021

Astronomers monitor nearby blazar Markarian 501

A team of astronomers from Switzerland and Germany has conducted a long-term multi-band photometric monitoring of a nearby blazar known as Markarian 501. The observational campaign delivered essential information regarding ...

Archaeology Sep 8, 2021

Late Neanderthals used complex tool-making techniques

Neanderthals living in the Swabian Jura more than 45,000 years ago used sophisticated techniques with many different production strategies to make stone tools. The Heidenschmiede site has yielded many stone tools and by-products ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 7, 2021

Transatlantic slave trade introduced novel pathogenic viruses in the Americas

The transatlantic slave trade may have introduced new pathogenic viruses from Africa to North America that affected Indigenous communities, shows an analysis of ancient DNA published in eLife.  

Quantum Physics Sep 3, 2021

Tapping into magnets to clamp down on noise in quantum information

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has recently funded both DOE's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana (UIUC) in a new project related to quantum information science. The Argonne team ...

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