Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be Locked Beneath a Frozen Wall
Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, has drawn scientific interest because its frozen surface may hide a global…
Plasmonic metamaterial time crystal | Nature
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Humans may not be the only primates with geometric intuition as monkeys recognise shapes in remarkably similar ways, study finds |
For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human intelligence: our ability to recognise geometric patterns was thought…
Ice Age Humans Favored Female Mammoths, DNA Shows
Analysing ancient DNA of over 500 mammoth bones, an international team of researchers found that Ice Age humans…
Carbon credits need fixing so that greenhouse gas emitters take genuine steps to reduce their carbon
As furnace-like heatwaves fan wildfires across France, Spain and Italy – burning an area four times the size…
Titan experiences clouds, rain, rivers and changing seasons like Earth; Saturn’s 29-year journey around the Sun makes each season last more than seven Earth years
Titan has four seasons much like Earth’s, but there is one very strange catch to them A single…
Pusan National University Researchers Have Developed a Hybrid Quantum Network with Indistinguishable Quantum Sources
Insider Brief Researchers from Pusan National University and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated photon interference…
For centuries, scientists couldn’t explain why flamingos aren’t born pink until a breakthrough in the 1960s revealed the answer |
For centuries, flamingos were recognised by their vivid pink feathers, yet the reason behind that striking colour remained…
New AI-based program is a shrink ray for proteins
A new AI-based program, dubbed Raygun, can suggest strategic cuts to a protein’s amino acid sequence to…
Europe burns: a visual guide to the wildfires | Wildfires
The hellish infernos that have torn through parts of France and Spain have caused deaths, the evacuation of…
On this day in space! July 30, 1610: Galileo sees Saturn’s rings for the 1st time
On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet…
Future of UK physics threatened by ‘ruinous’ funding cuts, says Institute of Physics – Physics World
Future of UK physics threatened by ‘ruinous’ funding cuts, says Institute of Physics – Physics World Skip to…