Study shows human ancestors could have consumed hard plant tissues without damaging their teeth
Go ahead, take a big bite.
Evolution
Jan 17, 2020
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News tagged with fundamental concepts
Building blocks of all life gain new understanding
New research on an enzyme that is essential for photosynthesis and all life on earth has uncovered a key finding in its structure which reveals how light can interact with matter to make an essential pigment for life.
Biochemistry
Oct 23, 2019
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Video: Framework to characterize the collective behavior of a large number of macroscopic objects
Let's put winter behind us—it's time to think about sand.
General Physics
Apr 6, 2015
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Statistics is more than a numbers game – it underpins all sciences
We are all familiar with many instances of statistics in everyday life: the statistics of sport, weather, population, the stock market … the sort of thing that might appear in the "number crunch" column in The Age and The ...
Mathematics
Jul 1, 2014
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Breaking nature's superfluid symmetry
Superfluids are an exotic state of matter in which particles flow without experiencing viscosity. Hiroki Ikegami and colleagues from the RIKEN Low Temperature Physics Laboratory in Wako have now observed another remarkable ...
General Physics
Sep 6, 2013
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New theory uncovers cancer's deep evolutionary roots
A new way to look at cancer—by tracing its deep evolutionary roots to the dawn of multicellularity more than a billion years ago—has been proposed by Paul Davies of Arizona State University's Beyond Center for Fundamental ...
General Physics
Jul 12, 2013
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Creativity that counts
In a digital world, literature, art and music are often the result of collaborative efforts. But who owns what, and can copyright law cope? New research aims to find out.
Economics & Business
May 15, 2013
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Research helps to show how turbulence can occur without inertia
(Phys.org) —Anyone who has flown in an airplane knows about turbulence, or when the flow of a fluid—in this case, the flow of air over the wings—becomes chaotic and unstable. For more than a century, the field of fluid ...
General Physics
Apr 30, 2013
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Tool boosts success of online collaborations by redistributing the burdens of leadership
The Web makes it possible for lots of people to collaborate on projects, but it doesn't make it easy to lead them. A Carnegie Mellon University researcher has developed a new tool that helps leaders see complex, collaborative ...
Software
Feb 20, 2013
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In it for the long haul: Longer transmission lengths boost spin electronic applications
All modern electronics are based on the fundamental concept of electrical charges moving through a circuit. There are, however, alternative schemes that promise faster and more efficient types of computing. An example is ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 25, 2013
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