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A study reported in Current Biology shows how physical disabilities in the animal world can be overcome through behavioral innovation. The report feat...
Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein's theory of relativity, time is not absolute: its passage depends on m...
On April 17, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 call...
Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a group of primitive plants to...
The rapid increase in electric vehicle adoption in recent years has highlighted a crucial issue: the energy conversion efficiency of electric motors....
Engineers have developed a new high-performance tungsten–copper metallic coating in one step using plasma spray, for future high heat flux (HHF) plasm...
Spanish Renaissance master El Greco is often considered one of the greatest painters of all time, and many of his artworks are displayed in galleries...
Two independent research teams have each demonstrated collisional quantum gates using fermionic atoms: a long-sought milestone in quantum computing wh...
The cost of school uniforms is proving a barrier to education for secondary students in Aotearoa, with some missing school because they don't have a f...
Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk Maxwell first predicted that li...
Older workers are stereotyped as less competent, less trainable, and less adaptable by their younger colleagues, influencing how they are viewed by ma...
2D materials are widely seen as a promising path toward better computer chips. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that some of these materials are...
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