Researchers have successfully measured the quantum structure of radium monofluoride (RaF) using ion-trapping and specialized laser techniques, allowing for the detailed characterization of its rotational energy levels and establishing a laser-cooling scheme. These findings are crucial for future experiments focused on laser-cooling and trapping RaF molecules, which are expected to...

Physicists Just Made a Breakthrough That Could Explain Why We Exist

These invasive, blood-sucking fish “may hold the key to understanding where we came from.”. One of only two jawless vertebrates, sea lampreys, which are causing significant damage to Midwestern fisheries, are also aiding scientists in understanding the origins of two crucial stem cells that played a key role in the evolution of vertebrates.

New Study: These Bizarre Blood-Sucking Fish Have a “Jaw-Dropping” Evolutionary Origin

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For the first time, researchers have reconstructed fossilized chromosomes

Scientists just made a big breakthrough with woolly mammoth DNA

Researchers from Japan have discovered a new form of ice called ice 0, which can seed the formation of ice crystals in supercooled water. Their study reveals that ice nucleation can occur near the surface of water droplets due to ice 0-like structures, resolving a longstanding debate. These findings have significant implications for various fields, including climate studies and food sciences, by enhancing our understanding of ice formation.

Ice 0: Scientists Discover Unusual New Form of Ice

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A fragment of skin trapped in permafrost for 52,000 years has just given us a marvelous world first.
Left by a wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), the material has delivered unto us not just a genome, but a three-dimensional reconstruction of the once-magnificent animal's chromosomes.



					
			

"This is a new type of fossil, and its scale dwarfs that of individual ancient DNA fragments – a million times more sequence," says geneticist Erez Lieberman Aiden of Baylor College of Medicine in the US.
"It is also the first time a karyotype of any sort has been determined for an ancient sample."
The last wooly mammoths died off...

Scientists Reconstruct Mammoth Chromosomes in 3D in Amazing First

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Scientists may have discovered how to create a real-life tractor beam using electromagnetic radiation that can draw particles toward it. The result is something very akin to the tractor beam seen in science fiction media like Star Wars. Further, the scientists say they may have found a way to make it more portable.
A paper on the team’s findings is published in the journal ACS Photonics. While yes, a tractor beam sounds like something that could never exist in our real world, the actual best usage we could probably find for something like that would be in the healthcare industry.
That’s because...

Scientists might’ve discovered how to make a tractor beam in real life

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Scientists have demonstrated a new type of quantum sensor that uses quantum entanglement to make measurements that seemingly “travel back in time.” The research, led by Kater Murch from Washington University in St. Louis and collaborators from NIST and the University of Cambridge, was published in Physical Review Letters on June 27, 2024. The process involves entangling two quantum particles, or qubits, in a quantum singlet state where their spins point in opposite directions.

Scientists unveil ‘time-traveling’ quantum sensor breakthrough

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“When I think of my whole career in physics, this is the work that I think 10 to 20 years from now could change the world.”

MIT’s breakthrough transistor could be game-changer for electronics

Sunlight-photosynthesizing organisms like plants and algae have long been believed to be the Earth's original producers of oxygen. But now, researchers have found evidence of a natural O2 factory that needs neither the Sun nor the lifeforms that harness its power. The source is a chemical reaction taking place in rocks lying on the lightless seafloor thousands of feet beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean, releasing what the researchers have dubbed "dark oxygen."

Scientists Say They've Detected a Strange Source of Electricity at the Bottom of the Ocean

Quantum computing has the potential to provide insights into profound questions about the universe, such as how space-time emerges from fundamental quantum processes. This capability is particularly valuable because many of these processes are currently beyond our reach with classical computational methods. The concept of emergent space-time suggests that our...

Quantum Physicist John Preskill Explores Information as Fundamental Reality

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Primary school geography paints such a neat picture of the world.It tells us, for example, that there are seven continents on Earth, but the truth is far more complex.Researchers are constantly encountering lost landmasses that constitute important pieces in the puzzle of our planet’s geological past.Now, a whole new continent has been found lurking beneath the icy waters of the northern Atlantic Ocean.The discovery was made around the Davis Strait, a large stretch of water located between Canada’s Baffin Island and Greenland.The strait was formed millions of years ago when the tectonic plates between the two islands shifted, reconfiguring the...

Scientists have just discovered a brand new continent

An international team of astronomers employing NASA’s Webb Space Telescope captured an exoplanet 12 light years away, and in a location that may be familiar to fans of science fiction. The alien planet orbits the K-type star Epsilon Indi A, which is around the same age as Earth’s Sun, but is slightly cooler.

NASA's Image Of An Alien Planet 12 Light Years Away Gives Astronomers Chills

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Researcher: ‘I’ve been excited about it for nine straight months.’

University of Utah research shows evidence of the closest known example of a black hole

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Natural compounds called polyphenols from tea and berries could help ice cream hold its shape longer at room temperature, according to science.

Scientists invented 'no melt' ice cream that holds its shape for 4 hours, but you can't eat it yet

Researchers at Korea’s Institute for Basic Science (IBS) have developed a groundbreaking remote mind control device capable of manipulating the human brain using magnetic fields. Tested on mice, the device induced maternal instincts and reduced appetite, leading to significant weight loss. Professor Cheon Jinwoo, leading the project, envisions its...

South Korean scientists develop the first-ever remote device that can control human mind

Researchers have discovered that Rembrandt used special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint in “The Night Watch.”. Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have, for the first time, determined how Rembrandt used special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint effect. Utilizing advanced spectroscopic techniques, they mapped the presence of pararealgar (yellow) and semi-amorphous pararealgar (orange/red) pigments in intricate detail in his renowned painting, The Night Watch.

Unique Pigments Discovered: Chemists Unveil New Secrets of Rembrandt’s Famous Painting “The Night Watch”

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

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The drug may eliminate the virus from concealed regions in the brain by focusing on infected cells, addressing a significant hurdle in HIV treatment. According to a new study by Tulane University, an experimental drug initially developed for cancer treatment may help clear HIV from infected cells in the brain.

Unexpected Efficacy: Experimental Drug Could Help Clear HIV From the Brain

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Magnetogenetics: Is This World-First Technology Really "Mind Control"?

The aluminum is pretreated with a rare metal alloy that can react with seawater to generate hydrogen.

MIT researchers make hydrogen fuel from soda cans, seawater, caffeine

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Scientists Have Developed a New Way To Study Aging Using Math

Researchers have developed mathematical tools to quantify how quickly cell proteins degrade, offering new insights into aging and disease. Their study categorizes proteins into three degradation...

Scientists Have Developed a New Way To Study Aging Using Math

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