Age and content of textile fragment is in accordance with a medieval myth about Saint Francis of Assisi
For more than 700 years the Friary of Folloni near Montella in Italy has protected and guarded some small fragments of textile.
For more than 700 years the Friary of Folloni near Montella in Italy has protected and guarded some small fragments of textile.
Archaeology
Sep 25, 2017
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A team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and Duke University has made the first determination of the atomic structure of Transient Receptor Potential Melastatin 8 (TRPM8), a molecular sensor in nerve ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 7, 2017
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A team of researchers with members from Nankai University in China and Rice University in the U.S. has developed a type of foam that retains its squishiness when exposed to extremely cold temperatures. In their paper published ...
This past July was the hottest single month in Earth's recorded history, but warming isn't the only danger climate change holds in store. Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the simultaneous occurrence of extremely ...
Environment
Sep 2, 2016
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A way of shrinking the devices used in quantum sensing systems has been developed by researchers at the UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing, which is led by the University of Birmingham.
Quantum Physics
Jul 29, 2020
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Seemingly ordinary, water has quite puzzling behavior. Why, for example, does ice float when most liquids crystallize into dense solids that sink?
Condensed Matter
Jun 18, 2014
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Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord.
Ecology
Jan 28, 2019
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Scientists have wondered for decades why marine animals that live in the polar oceans and the deep sea can reach giant sizes there, but nowhere else. University of Hawai'i at Manoa zoology Ph.D. student Caitlin Shishido, ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 10, 2019
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Spade-toothed whales are the world's rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern Pacific Ocean. However, scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 16, 2024
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(Phys.org)—A team at Harvard University has found a way to create a cold-atom Fermi–Hubbard antiferromagnet, which offers new insight into how electrons behave in solids. In their paper published in the journal Nature, ...