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Just Three Orbiting Black Holes Can Break Time-Reversal Symmetry

Most of the laws of physics don’t care which direction time is travelling. Forwards, backwards… either way, the laws work exactly the...

Data Are Finally In: Electric Cars Really Do Produce Less CO2 Pollution

Electric cars absolutely do produce less CO2 than gas guzzlers, a new study has confirmed – countering claims that carbon emissions from...

A Glacier in Antarctica Has Retreated With Astonishing Speed, Threatening Collapse

The ice sheet that sits atop Earth’s deepest land canyon stands on shaky ground. A detailed mapping of Denman Glacier in East...

Coronaviruses Similar to The COVID-19 One Have Just Been Found in Pangolins

A search for the ‘missing link’ in the chain of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has uncovered two close cousins of the new...

Analysis Has Failed to Find a Dark Matter ‘Glow’ in The Milky Way’s Halo

Once again, a search for signs of dark matter outside its gravitational effect has turned up zilch – but this time it’s...

Scientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells

In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have...

Makeshift Koala Hospital in Australia Scrambles to Save Animals Hurt in Bushfires

Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park’s makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or...

The fastest-spinning object ever made could help spot quantum friction in a vacuum

To detect the quantum friction of empty space, scientists are going for a spin.A twirling nanoparticle, suspended in a laser beam inside...

Scientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip

Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the...

Playing With Babies Can Make Your Brain Waves Sync Up Together

Playing with a tiny human is one of those small pleasures in life where you really feel like you’re connecting with a...

Representing 500 Million Citizens, The EP Officially Declares a Climate Emergency

The European Parliament declared a climate emergency on Thursday, in a largely symbolic move that nonetheless increases pressure on member states to...

New Details About The Infamous ‘CRISPR Babies’ Experiment Have Just Been Revealed

More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui’s attempt to use CRISPR technology to modify human...

Astronomers Have Caught This Pulsar Glitching For The Very First Time

After keeping a dead star under close observation for over two decades, astronomers have finally caught it acting out. A pulsar called...

This New Type of ‘Quantum Camouflage’ Can Hide Heat Signatures From Infrared Vision

A unique material that appears to decouple an object’s temperature from the amount of thermal radiation it produces could provide a new...

Australia Is Being Ravaged by The Worst-Ever Heatwave, And That Says a Lot

Australia may set a record for its hottest day this week, as temperatures soar past 104 degrees (40 Celsius) in most of...

NASA Just Observed a Totally New Kind of Magnetic Eruption on The Sun

The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas, a continual flow of super-hot plasma creates ropes...

Study paves way to better understanding, treatment of arthritis

Oregon State University research has provided the first complete, cellular-level look at what’s going on in joints afflicted by osteoarthritis, a debilitating...

Researchers discover brain circuit linked to food impulsivity

Within seconds, you’ve ordered a tub of the stuff and have eaten several handfuls.Impulsivity, or responding without thinking about the consequences of...

Underwater Loudspeakers Make Fish Flock to Dead Coral in Radical Experiment

The desperate search for ways to help the world’s coral reefs rebound from the devastating effects of climate change has given rise...

A Familiar Feature in a Far-Away Solar System

How typical is our Solar System? The question bedevils planetary scientists, but making detections of analogous features in other planetary systems is...

NASA’s New Planet-Hunting Space Telescope

Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these...

Brain Scans Confirm There’s No Difference Between Boy And Girl Brains Doing Math

There are no gender differences in the brain when it comes to maths processing ability, a new study has confirmed. This could...

New Quantum Physics Suggests Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist

Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum...

An ‘Unsinkable’ Metal That Floats Even When Damaged

It took just 2 1/2 hours for the Titanic to sink after it collided with an iceberg in 1912.Before the disaster, the...

Antidepressants Affecting Fish in a Strange Way, Study Shows

Immersed in a ‘drug soup‘ of pharmaceutical pollutants, aquatic wildlife acts in ways that puts them at risk of becoming an easily...

Algae inside blood vessels could act as oxygen factories

CHICAGO — It’s a strange mash-up, but it works: Algae living inside tadpoles’ blood vessels can pump out oxygen for nearby oxygen-starved...

Sleep may trigger rhythmic power washing in the brain

Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first...

Plant-based fire retardants may offer a less toxic way to tame flames

Flame retardants are going green. Using compounds from plants, researchers are concocting a new generation of flame retardants, which one day could...

Brett McGuire searches space for the chemistry of life

In a different reality, space might smell like almonds. After all, scientists surveying the chemicals in the cosmos have found benzonitrile; just...

Molecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated

When things heat up, most solids expand as higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate more dramatically, necessitating more space. But some solid...

Physics Nobel awarded for discoveries about the universe’s evolution and exoplanets

Two sets of cosmic discoveries have garnered the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics. Half of the prize of 9 million Swedish kronor...

Physicists have found quasiparticles that mimic hypothetical dark matter axions

An elusive hypothetical particle comes in imitation form. Lurking within a solid crystal is a phenomenon that is mathematically similar to proposed...

Hundreds of Mysterious ‘Ice Eggs’ Have Washed Up on a Finland Beach

Ice comes in many shapes and sizes, from mountainous icebergs to tiny flurries of snow. But few of us will ever come...

TESS Data May Already Hold a Clue to The Mysterious Planet Nine

There seems to be something large lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System, messing with the orbits of some of...

Geology, not CO2, controlled monsoon intensity in Asia’s ancient past

Shifting tectonic plates, not atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, controlled the strength of the powerful East Asian monsoon throughout its history, scientists say....

Google officially lays claim to quantum supremacy

Quantum supremacy is here, researchers from Google claim. For the first time, a quantum computer has solved a problem that can’t be...

A will to survive might take AI to the next level

Fiction is full of robots with feelings. Like that emotional kid David, played by Haley Joel Osment, in the movie A.I. Or...

Mesmerising Video Shows Waves of Spinal Fluid Washing Over The Brain During Sleep

We are quite literally having our brains washed every night. Neuroscientists have now produced a fascinating video that shows this nocturnal pulsing...

Using AI to predict where and when lightning will strike

Lightning is one of the most unpredictable phenomena in nature. It regularly kills people and animals and sets fire to homes and...

Vitamin E acetate is a culprit in the deadly vaping outbreak, the CDC says

For the first time, a chemical potentially responsible for widespread vaping-related lung injuries and deaths in the United States has been found...

Light leaking from a distant galaxy hints at a cosmic makeover’s origins

A leaky galaxy might be offering up clues about a vast cosmic makeover foisted on the universe during its youth. Within about...

American whiskeys leave unique ‘webs’ when evaporated

Step aside, whiskey connoisseurs. Scientists have a new way to discern quality among bourbons.  An analysis of residues from evaporated bourbons reveals...

Trapping atoms in a laser beam offers a new way to measure gravity

By watching how atoms behave when they’re suspended in midair, rather than in free fall, physicists have come up with a new...

Scientists Study Sea Levels 125,000 Years Ago And It’s a Terrifying Look at Our Future

Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according to new research that offers...

Decades of dumping acid suggest acid rain may make trees thirstier

A forest watered by acid rain may be less able to slake its thirst. That’s one finding from a decades-long experiment in...

Discovery of Birds With a Complex Society Shows Mammals Aren’t as Unique as We Thought

It has long been thought that one of the reasons we humans developed large brains was to allow us to maintain complex social...

Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Have a Huge Flaw When It Comes to Jaywalkers

Software detected the woman almost six seconds before Uber’s self-driving car struck her, investigators say, in the crash that would lead to...

Massive Review Confirms House Plants Aren’t Actually ‘Purifying’ The Air in Your Home

Filling your house with potted plants might make you happier and more productive, but it’s not going to make the air you...

NASA Just Opened a Moon Dirt Sample Untouched Since The ’70s

For the first time in more than 40 years, NASA scientists have opened up a sample of Moon matter collected during the...

The Real Cause of Your Neck Pain Probably Has Very Little to Do With Bad Posture

If you suffer from neck pain, you’re not alone. Spinal pain is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide and its...

Chronic Form of B12 Deficiency:Major Health Issues

An estimated 6 percent of people in the US and UK suffer from vitamin B12 deficiency. The condition is recognised by the...

‘Causal Connection’ Between Sleep Quality And Anxiety

Everybody knows to get a good night’s sleep if they want to feel their best, but the emotional consequences of not having...

Even More Insects Than We Feared Have Disappeared in The Last Decade

The world’s insects are in trouble. In recent years, growing evidence has found a scary number of bugs are missing from the...

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