Summary: People can unlock their creative potential and enhance their creativity by embracing frustration and using it as a tool to inspire new methods and ideas. Source: Jacobs University In…
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A new way to share secret information, using quantum mechanics
Experimental implementation of the continuous variable system for all-optical quantum state sharing. Credit: Yingxuan Chen, East China Normal University Quantum information is a powerful technology for increasing the amount of…
Evidence of prehistoric glue used 20,000-years-ago during the Palaeolithic period |
Researchers from UNED and the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) have found evidence of adhesives being used to fasten lithic hunting heads to arrow shafts approximately 20,000-years-ago. In a paper,…
Newfound bat skeletons are the oldest on record
Two fossilized bat skeletons unearthed in western Wyoming represent a new species and are the oldest set of bat bones yet discovered, researchers say. The incredibly complete fossils of Icaronycteris…
Researchers reveal quantum interference in inter-layer Coulomb drag
Schematics for intra-layer and inter-layer quantum interference. Credit: Zhu Lijun et al. A team led by Prof. Zeng Changgan and Associate Researcher Li Lin from the University of Science and…
Podcast transcript – Functional Ecologists
In this podcast for Functional Ecology, Assistant Editor, Frank Harris, sits down with Lauren Nadler and Sandra Binning—two of the four guest editors (also Shelley Adamo & Dana Hawley)—to discuss…
High status tomb discovered in Saqqara necropolis
A joint archaeological mission, led by researchers from the Leiden Museum in the Netherlands and the Egyptian Museum in Turin, have discovered a high-status tomb in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt.…
Videos of gold nanoparticles snapping together show how some crystals grow
Mesmerizing videos offer a new look at the ways crystals form. The real-time clips, described March 30 in Nature Nanotechnology, show closeup views of microscopic gold particles tumbling, sliding and…
Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is filling ICUs this spring – a pediatric infectious disease specialist explains this little-known virus
In the year 2000, Dutch scientists went on a mission of exploration – not to discover lands or riches, but to identify unknown causes of acute respiratory infections. These illnesses,…
