UCLA chemists have found a big problem with a fundamental rule of organic chemistry that has been around for 100 years—it's just not true. And they say, It's time to rewrite the textbooks.
Biochemistry
Oct 31, 2024
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There is power in numbers, or so the saying goes. But in the ocean, scientists are finding that fish that group together don't necessarily survive together. In some cases, the more fish there are, the larger a target they ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 29, 2024
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The ideology of American exceptionalism has long held that the United States is and has been exceptional throughout its history, not making the same mistakes or perpetuating the same evils of other world powers. Yet a new ...
Education
Oct 28, 2024
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Is blood thicker than water? Should family always come first? These clichés about the importance of family abound, despite the recognition that familial relations are oftentimes hard, if not downright dysfunctional.
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2024
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A team of physicists at ETH Zürich has built the first-ever working mechanical qubit. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their novel idea for creating such a qubit and how well it has worked ...
More than 500 bat fossils have been discovered at the Messel Pit UNESCO World Heritage Site over 42 years. A new study, published today in the journal Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, investigates whether the high ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 31, 2024
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A new theory that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single photon.
Optics & Photonics
Nov 19, 2024
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Bio-based materials may pose a greater health risk to some of the planet's most important species than the conventional plastics they are designed to replace, a new study has shown.
Environment
Nov 5, 2024
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Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?
Evolution
Nov 7, 2024
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A new study reveals it would take far longer than the lifespan of our universe for a typing monkey to randomly produce Shakespeare. So, while the Infinite Monkey Theorem is true, it is also somewhat misleading.
Mathematics
Oct 30, 2024
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