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- Future information technologies: Nanoscale heat transport under the microscope (22 Aug 2018)
- A timescale for the origin and evolution of all of life on Earth (22 Aug 2018)
- Ocean acidification accelerates erosion of coral reefs: Researchers found that increased activity by worms and other organisms act on coral skeletons (14 Aug 2018)
- Scientists develop proteins that self-assemble into supramolecular complexes (27 Jul 2018)
- Applying machine learning tools to earthquake data offers new insights: Algorithms pick out hidden signals that could boost geothermal energy production (18 Jul 2018)
- Improving stroke treatment through machine learning (14 Jul 2018)
- Artificial intelligence used to identify bacteria quickly and accurately: Microscope-based artificial intelligence could alleviate shortage of clinical microbiologists (14 Jul 2018)
- Magnetic vortices: Two independent magnetic skyrmion phases discovered in a single material (13 Jul 2018)
- Light receptors determine the behavior of flashlight fish (13 Jul 2018)
- Quantum-enhanced sensing of magnetic fields (03 Jul 2018)
- Neanderthals practiced close-range hunting 120,000 years ago (03 Jul 2018)
- Understanding gravity: The nanoscale search for extra dimensions: Scientists use high-sensitivity experiments to probe exotic gravitational force (01 Jul 2018)
- Portable optical clock used to measure gravitation for the first time: For the first time, researchers measure gravitation with a portable optical clock, paving the way for standardised measurement of (01 Jul 2018)
- Navigating with the sixth sense: Desert ants sense Earth's magnetic field (01 Jul 2018)
- Genetic evidence that magnetic navigation guides loggerhead sea turtles: Loggerhead sea turtles that nest on beaches with similar magnetic fields are genetically similar (01 Jul 2018)
- Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologies (01 Jul 2018)
- Speedy collision detector could make robots better human assistants (29 Jun 2018)
- Challenging existing models of black holes (21 Jun 2018)
- Organic insect deterrent for agriculture: Biodegradable crop protection products without risks or side effects (17 Jun 2018)
- Neutron tomography: Insights into the interior of teeth, root balls, batteries, and fuel cells (07 Jun 2018)
- Breakthrough in controlling DNA-based robots: Researchers use magnets to move tiny nano-devices faster than ever before (07 Jun 2018)
- Researchers develop data bus for quantum computer (26 Apr 2018)
- In living color: Seeing cells from outside the body with synthetic bioluminescence (20 Apr 2018)
- Revolutionizing nuclear waste reprocessing and saving money: A 'molecular trap' for capturing radioactive iodides in nuclear waste (19 Nov 2017)
- Self-esteem mapped in the human brain (25 Oct 2017)
- Brain patterns underlying mothers' responses to infant cries: Behaviors and brain activity consistent between mothers from different countries (24 Oct 2017)
- Health: New protein aggregation measurement tool: First simple, standardized tool for studying phenomenon in living cells (23 Oct 2017)
- Learning during development is regulated by an unexpected brain region (18 Oct 2017)
- Single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16 million atoms: Researchers have demonstrated the entanglement between 16 million atoms in a crystal crossed by a single photon, confirming the theory b (13 Oct 2017)
- Biology study suggests father's nutrition before sex could contribute to health of baby: Biologists find the diet of male fruit flies influences the survivorship of their embryos. (13 Oct 2017)
- Virtual humans work better than current ways to identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers: Computer-generated interviewers combine anonymity with social rapport to help troops open up about mental he (12 Oct 2017)
- Major breakthrough identifies new mechanism for the development of schizophrenia (11 Oct 2017)
- Growing human brain cells in the lab: Scientists develop a cheaper, quicker, and more reliable stem cell-based technology to facilitate drug discovery (11 Oct 2017)
- Zero gravity: Graphene for space applications (08 Oct 2017)
- Plant cells survive but stop dividing upon DNA damage: NAIST researchers show the molecular pathway through which plants cease cell division upon DNA damage (08 Oct 2017)
- Jupiter: Atmosphere and aurora in unprecedented detail (08 Oct 2017)
- Imaging of scar tissue formation: Noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging of lung fibrogenesis with an amino acid targeted probe (08 Oct 2017)
- Fruit flies journey to International Space Station to study effects of zero gravity on the heart (08 Oct 2017)
- First laboratory generation of astrophysical shock waves created (08 Oct 2017)
- Faster biosensor for healthcare now developed (08 Oct 2017)
- Even non-migratory birds use a magnetic compass (08 Oct 2017)
- 3-D-printed magnets: How can you produce a magnet with exactly the right magnetic field? For the first time, magnets can be made with a 3-D printer (07 Oct 2017)
- Scientists track the brain-skull transition from dinosaurs to birds (06 Oct 2017)
- Genetic 'fossils' reveal long-term viral partnerships in grass: Within host cells, partner viruses may exchange genetic material and evolve together over time (06 Oct 2017)
- Amber specimen offers rare glimpse of feathered dinosaur tail (05 Oct 2017)
- Gene circuit design strategy to advance synthetic biology (04 Oct 2017)
- Snake eats lizard eats beetle: Fossil food chain from the Messel Pit examined (25 Sep 2017)
- First 'image' of a dark matter web that connects galaxies (21 Sep 2017)
- Why animals have evolved to favor one side of the brain (11 Sep 2017)
- Urbanization costs five billion years of evolutionary history (11 Sep 2017)
- Research unlocks molecular key to animal evolution and disease (11 Sep 2017)
- Highway to health: New findings point way to more nutritious crops: Researchers uncover inner workings of plant circulation and storage (31 Aug 2017)
- Plumage evolution: Explaining the vivid colors of birds (19 Mar 2017)
- Men welcome revolutionary male contraceptive (19 Mar 2017)
- Linguists explore the evolution of color in new study (19 Mar 2017)
- Got eczema? It may just be bad evolutionary luck, study finds (19 Mar 2017)
- Decision-making involves a little known brain region in the thalamus (25 Jul 2016)
- Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use (25 Jul 2016)
- Lab storing information securely in DNA (21 Jul 2016)
- Scientists sequence genome of worm that can regrow body parts, seeking stem cell insights: Worm's genome could lead to better understanding of its regenerative prowess, advance stem cell biology (11 Jul 2016)
- Physicists determine 3-D positions of individual atoms for the first time: Finding will help scientists better understand the structural properties of materials (11 Jul 2016)
- The structural memory of water persists on a picosecond timescale (04 Jul 2016)
- New report examines implications of growing gap in life span by income for entitlement programs (04 Jul 2016)
- Method for detecting quantum entanglement refined (21 Jun 2016)
- Study validates monkey model of visual perception (14 Jun 2016)
- Light-matter interplay probed: Physicists achieve quantum Hall state with light (14 Jun 2016)
- Glitter from silver lights up Alzheimer's dark secrets (14 Jun 2016)
- Cannabis use may influence cortical maturation in adolescent males: ...who have a high genetic risk for schizophrenia (14 Jun 2016)
- At the origin of language structure (14 Jun 2016)
- Scientists discover electrical control of cancer cell growth (31 May 2016)
- New drug protects against the deadly effects of nuclear radiation 24 hours after exposure (31 May 2016)
- Bilingualism and the brain: How language shapes our ability to process information (31 May 2016)
- The unique ecology of human predators (28 May 2016)
- 'Memory region' of brain also involved in conflict resolution: Hippocampus is involved in quick, successful decisions (28 May 2016)
- Research examines relationship between autism and creativity: New research has found that people with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to produce unusually creative ideas (27 May 2016)
- How a female X chromosome is inactivated (17 May 2016)
- World's first bilateral hand transplant on child (16 May 2016)
- Researchers design first artificial ribosome (16 May 2016)
- Using low-dose irradiation, researchers can now edit human genes: Effectiveness of gene editing in human stem cells improves tenfold using new technique (15 May 2016)
- Weyl points, first predicted in 1929, observed for the first time (14 May 2016)
- How birds learn foreign languages: Biologists have succeeded in teaching wild birds to understand a new language (14 May 2016)
- Agriculture's next frontier? Growing plants in space (14 May 2016)
- Gene associated with thinking skills: Gene underlying healthy information processing identified (12 May 2016)
- Extreme makeover: Humankind's unprecedented transformation of Earth (10 May 2016)
- Exercising early in life yields rewards in adult years: Early-age exercise in mice has positive effects on adult levels of voluntary exercise (10 May 2016)
- More women are reaching 100 but centenarian men are healthier (09 May 2016)
- Emotional brains 'physically different' from rational ones (09 May 2016)
- Scientists grow multiple brain structures and make connections between them: Model of neuronal connectivity using stem cells (08 May 2016)
- Global freshwater consumption crossing its planetary boundary (08 May 2016)
- Scientists gain first glimpse of new concepts developing in the brain (07 May 2016)
- Epicenter of brain's predictive ability pinpointed by scientists (07 May 2016)
- DNA that only females have (07 May 2016)
- The atom without properties (22 Apr 2016)
- 1200 years of water balance data challenge climate models (11 Apr 2016)
- New tool enables scientists to interpret 'dark matter' DNA: Breakthrough technology opens the door to identifying new drug targets that could treat many genetic diseases (05 Apr 2016)
- How diet shaped human evolution: The Neanderthal rib-cage and pelvis expanded to adapt to a high-protein diet in Ice-Age Europe (05 Apr 2016)
- Neanderthals diet: 80% meat, 20% vegetables: Isotope studies shed a new light on the eating habits of the prehistoric humans (15 Mar 2016)
- Half of the Amazonian tree species are endangered (15 Mar 2016)
- Songbird's reference genome illuminate key role of epigenetics in evolution of memory and learning: Smart songbird's reference genome is milestone for ecological research (29 Jan 2016)
- Both hemispheres of the brain process numbers (29 Jan 2016)
- Nordic Seas cooled 500,000 years before global oceans (28 Oct 2015)
- Capacity to regenerate body parts may be the primitive state for all four-legged vertebrates (27 Oct 2015)
- Tiny plant shows us how living things cope with big changes (20 Oct 2015)
- Scientists track speed of powerful internal ocean waves: New technique to measure speed of waves below ocean surface (20 Oct 2015)
- From hummingbird to owl: New research decodes bird family tree (20 Oct 2015)
- Simple detection of magnetic skyrmions (08 Oct 2015)
- Knee-deep in spider leg evolution (08 Oct 2015)
- Large trees -- key climate influencers -- die first in drought: First systematic review of patterns, 38 worldwide forests studied (30 Sep 2015)
- Chimpanzee personality linked to anatomy of brain structures (29 Sep 2015)
- New lineage of prehistoric, plankton-eating sharks discovered (27 Sep 2015)
- 2-million-year-old fossils reveal hearing abilities of early humans (27 Sep 2015)
- Unlocking secrets of how fossils form (19 Sep 2015)
- Paleo-engineering: Complexity of triceratops' teeth revealed (14 Sep 2015)
- The million year old monkey: New evidence confirms the antiquity of fossil primate (05 Sep 2015)
- Magnetic 'wormhole' connecting two regions of space created for the first time (03 Sep 2015)
- Fossil specimen reveals a new species of ancient river dolphin (02 Sep 2015)