The research team tested materials ranging, from films with randomly arranged molecules to more organized molecular crystals to the fixed lattices of different 2D materials to identify three guiding rules…
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‘Is there something emerging from my head?’ ‘Solar Opposites’ season 6 clip reveals the horror of Beta Nuts (exclusive)
Our favorite Schlorpian family is back for the sixth and final season of “Solar Opposites”, as Korvo, Terry, Jessie, Yumyulack, and the Pupa continue to try to adapt to Earth’s…
Event Horizon Telescope images reveal new dark matter detection method
Simulated images of the supermassive black hole M87*. Left panel shows radiation from astrophysical plasma and right panel illustrates potential emission from dark matter annihilation. Credit: Yifan Chen. According to…
Young sunlike star reveals rapid two-year magnetic cycle
Credit: AIP/J. Alvarado-Gómez – STScI/NASA Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have uncovered the intricate magnetic heartbeat of a distant star remarkably similar to our own sun—but…
How pollution and the microbiome interact with Tregs, the immune system regulators whose discovery was honored with the Nobel Prize
A special group of immune cells known as regulatory T cells, or Tregs for short, became an overnight sensation when a trio of U.S. and Japanese scientists won the Nobel…
Flu season has arrived – and so have updated flu vaccines
As the autumn’s cool weather settles in, so does flu season – bringing with it the familiar experiences of sniffles, fever and cough. Every year, influenza – the flu –…
Can you really be addicted to food? Researchers are uncovering convincing similarities to drug addiction
People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest. But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could…
AI, drone ships and new sensors could leave submarines with few places to hide
A US Virginia-class attack submarine during sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: US Navy courtesy of General Dynamics Electric Boat For over a century, the ocean has been the…
Joint pain or osteoarthritis? Exercise could be the first line of treatment
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Stiff knees, aching hips and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older. But while osteoarthritis is…
Book review: When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows—Stephen on ‘common knowledge’
Common knowledge is something everyone knows that everyone knows. He saw it. She saw it. He knows that she saw it, and vice versa, ad infinitum. According to Steven Pinker, Johnstone…
