Crowds Of Living Organisms Behave Like Groups Of Quantum Particles
Electrons whizzing around an atom and a group of people at a concert hardly seem to have much in common. So, it comes as a…
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How Large Meteorite Impacts Affect Planetary Mantle Convection
Every now and then, car- or house-sized bodies entering Earth’s atmosphere from outer space meet a fiery end in a final blaze and remind us…
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How X-Ray Fluorescence Methods Reveal Past Climate Changes
Geology tries to understand the past by looking at the contemporary world. There is the famous phrase of uniformitarianism “Present is the key to the…
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Time For An Epstein-Barr Virus Vaccine
Autoimmunity is often thought of as a genetic malady that will require a genetic route for cure and prevention. Many of us have relatives and…
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Scientists Have Just Created Human-Sheep Hybrids
Scientists have recently managed to create a human-sheep hybrid, bringing them closer to creating artificially grown organs for use in organ transplants. The research project involved…
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Social Behaviors In Newly-Hatched Tortoises
Monday morning, London tube. Standing there, in a crowd of hundreds, your mind goes to your plans for the day, your morning appointments, errands to…
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80 Million Year Old Shark Species Found Off The Coast Of Portugal
From movies to books and television shows, sharks have captivated the minds of people. They have an entire week dedicated to showcasing how they are…
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Is Quantum Mechanics Internally Inconsistent? Thought Experiment Probes the Conceptual Foundations of QM
Thought experiments have been the bread and butter of modern physics since its inception. Galileo used a thought experiment to argue that all objects fall…
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Scientists Create Atomic Solid-State Drive With Potentially 1000x More Memory Than Conventional Devices
Researchers at the University of Alberta have created a new atomic-scale solid-state drive (SSD) that could potentially surpass the storage memory of conventional drives 1,000-fold….
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Becoming Personalized: How In Situ Hybridization Helped Revolutionize Healthcare
Have you ever seen one of your genes? The specific part of your genome where it is found? I bet you haven’t, but neither have…
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Tigers Eye: Characteristics And Properties
Tiger’s Eye is a pseudomorph of compact quartz. This popular gemstone is made after Crocidolite, which is a fibrous mineral. We will talk about the…
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