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Explaining the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy
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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
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Using sunlight to drive chemical reactions, such as artificial photosynthesis, could soon become much more efficient thanks to nanomaterials. This is …
Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole Out of Galactic Core
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ago. …
Liquid storage of solar energy – more effective than ever before
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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
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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
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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
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A new computer software program has the potential to lip-read more accurately than people and to help those with hearing loss, Oxford University …
Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Forty-two is the answer, but what is the question? Scientists from the University of Zurich wanted to probe how immune cells adapt to weightlessness …
A new approach to the quantum measurement problem
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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 …