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Social Sciences Jul 5, 2022

The extremist watchers: How a network of researchers is searching for the next hate-fueled attack

One evening in early June, a week after 19 students and two teachers were shot and killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, extremism researcher Kesa White started seeing media reports of another mass shooting, ...

Astronomy Jun 14, 2022

NASA telescope to help untangle galaxy growth, dark matter makeup

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study wispy streams of stars that extend far beyond the apparent edges of many galaxies. Missions like the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes would have to patch together ...

General Physics Jun 6, 2022

Origin of the boson peak in amorphous solids

Scientists from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo used molecular dynamics simulations to better understand the unusual properties of amorphous solids, such as glass. They found that certain dynamical ...

Condensed Matter Jun 2, 2022

From black holes to sands: Application of holographic duality to granular matter

Researchers from the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have found that granular matter (such as sand) and some black hole models display ...

Cell & Microbiology May 9, 2022

Crystal study may resolve DNA mystery

When cells reproduce, the internal mechanisms that copy DNA get it right nearly every time. Rice University bioscientists have uncovered a tiny detail that helps understand how the process could go wrong.

General Physics Apr 26, 2022

Kinematics of stretched sheets

In a new study now published as a report and also illustrated as the online cover-page of Science Advances, Julien Chopin, Arshad Kudrolli, and a research team in Physics in the U.S. and Brazil showed how twisted hyper-elastic ...

Plasma Physics Apr 14, 2022

Phase transitions in the early universe and their signals

Phase transitions, such as the boiling of water or the melting of a metal, are commonplace but fascinating phenomena that spur surprises decades after decades. They often occur as the temperature of a substance is changed, ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 14, 2022

Study finds genome loops don't last long in cells: Theories of how loops control gene expression may need to be revised

In human chromosomes, DNA is coated by proteins to form an exceedingly long beaded string. This "string" is folded into numerous loops, which are believed to help cells control gene expression and facilitate DNA repair, among ...

General Physics Apr 14, 2022

Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers, but that's okay

Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock.

Polymers Apr 5, 2022

Watching how a covalent polymer develops using a scanning tunneling microscope

A team of researchers from KU Leuven, the University of Aveiro, OLYMAT, the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and the Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science has used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to observe ...

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