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Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy
Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according to a Hungarian-American team. The researchers believe …
Researchers uncover secret of nanomaterial that makes harvesting sunlight easier
Using sunlight to drive chemical reactions, such as artificial photosynthesis, could soon become much more efficient thanks to nanomaterials.<p>This is …
Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole Out of Galactic Core
Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power …
Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe
Astronomers from Bonn and Tautenburg in Thuringia (Germany) used the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg to observe several galaxy clusters. At the …
Scientists unveil a giant leap for anti-ageing
UNSW researchers have made a discovery that could lead to a revolutionary drug that actually reverses ageing, improves DNA repair and could even help …
Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf
An international team of astronomers has identified a record breaking brown dwarf (a star too small for nuclear fusion) with the ‘purest’ composition …
New Portal to Unveil the Dark Sector of the Universe
Once upon a time, the Universe was just a hot soup of particles. In those days, together with visible particles, other particles to us hidden or dark …
Scientists evade the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
State-of-the-art sensors, such as MRIs and atomic clocks, are capable of making measurements with exquisite precision. MRI is used to image tissues …
Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth's iron
New research challenges the prevailing theory that the unique nature of Earth’s iron was the result of how its core was formed billions of years …
Liquid storage of solar energy – more effective than ever before
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have demonstrated efficient solar energy storage in a chemical liquid. The stored energy …
Whole-body vibration may be as effective as regular exercise
A less strenuous form of exercise known as whole-body vibration (WBV) can mimic the muscle and bone health benefits of regular exercise in mice, …
The body is the missing link for truly intelligent machines
It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, …
New computer software program excels at lip reading
Watch, Attend and Spell (WAS), is a new artificial intelligence (AI) software system that has been developed by Oxford, in collaboration with the …
Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system
As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England’s throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own …
Solar storms trigger surprising phenomena close to Earth
Eruptions on the Sun’s surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that–among other things–can …
Running away from Einstein
Einstein’s theory of gravity may have to be rewritten, after researchers at the University of St Andrews found a gigantic ring of galaxies darting …
Astronomers observe a dying red giant star’s final act
An international team of astronomers has observed a striking spiral pattern in the gas surrounding a red giant star named LL Pegasi and its companion …
How Artificial Intelligence and the robotic revolution will change the workplace of tomorrow
The workplace is going to look drastically different ten years from now. The coming of the Second Machine Age is quickly bringing massive changes …
Researchers create viruses to selectively attack tumor cells
Scientists at the IDIBAPS Biomedical Research Institute and at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) lead a study in which they …
Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe
New observations indicate that massive, star-forming galaxies during the peak epoch of galaxy formation, 10 billion years ago, were dominated by …
42 is the answer
“Although the immune cells went into disarray in weightlessness, they reacted ultra-rapidly and came to a full recovery inside 42 seconds,” reports …
A new approach to the quantum measurement problem
Quantum mechanics is a probabilistic theory that does not describe individual events. Yet when we perform a single measurement, we find a …
Spiders Eat 400-800 Million Tons of Prey Every Year
It has long been suspected that spiders are one of the most important groups of predators of insects. Zoologists at the University of Basel and Lund …
New nano-implant could one day help restore sight
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego and La Jolla-based startup Nanovision Biosciences Inc. have developed the …
New model explains the formation of supermassive black holes in the very early Universe
Simulations performed using supercomputers demonstrate that the radiation from nearby galaxies can facilitate the formation of supermassive black …
Star discovered in closest known orbit around black hole
Astronomers have found evidence for a star that whips around a black hole about twice an hour. This may be the tightest orbital dance ever witnessed …
There's a close association between magnetic systems and certain states of brain activity
Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) have proven for the first time that there is a close relationship between several emerging phenomena …
How do animals see in the dark?
On a moonless night, light levels can by more than 100m times dimmer than in bright daylight. Yet while we are nearly blind and quite helpless in the …
'Blurred times' in a quantum world
In everyday life we are used to the idea that properties of an object can be known to an arbitrary precision. However, in quantum mechanics, one of …