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A research team at The University of Tokyo has developed a powerful machine learning algorithm that predicts the properties and structures of unknown samples from an electron spectrum. This process may rapidly accelerate...

(Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR)) 26 March 2019/Kiel. Nitrogen is an essential element for both the life on land and in the oceans. Moreover, it affects the climate of Earth. However, many factors in th...

Renewable energy use is rising but 2018 still saw a record increase in global carbon emissions - the equivalent of doubling emissions from all air travel in a single year

(Duke University) Materials scientists at Duke University have theorized a new 'oil-and-vinegar' approach to engineering self-assembling materials of unusual architectures made out of spherical nanoparticles. The resulti...

Some of the first dinosaurs may have lived and hunted on the largest delta plain ever discovered, which was 10 times the size of the Amazon river delta

AIs have some superhuman abilities, but just how clever are they overall? To find out, a new competition will adapt tests used to study animals

Vice president Mike Pence has announced that NASA's newest goal is to land astronauts on the south pole of the moon by 2024, in an effort to beat Russia and China

Weird things happen when water droplets smash into each other.

Rising temperatures in the Arctic may be weakening winds in China and India, lessening air flow over major cities and exacerbating winter smogs

Concerns are rising about the loss of pollinators in Britain after analysis found 33 per cent of bee and hoverfly species have declined since 1980

The sound of a sonic boom may produce about the same magnitude of gravitational pull as a 10-milligram weight, a new study finds. Oddly, the findings also suggest the pull is in the opposite direction of the gravitationa...

Aneurysms form as abnormal bulges or balloonings over an artery, and, if ruptured, can lead to serious health complications or even death. Some aneurysms can exist for a long time without rupturing, and the surgery invol...

Earlier this month, the Muon g-2 ("g minus two") experiment at Fermilab began its second run to search for hidden particles and forces.

Anyons form the basis for topological quantum computation and error correction, where the topological aspect of anyonic braiding is one of the important features that gives rise to fault tolerance. More qubits to control...

Respondents to Symmetry's survey about what it's like to earn a PhD in particle physics or astrophysics offer their views of the experience. In the mid-1980s, Nigel Smith was a graduate student at Leeds University. He wa...

Star Trek's famous holodeck is a virtual reality stage that simulates any object in 3-D as if they were real. However, 3-D holographic projection has never been realized. A team of scientists from Bilkent University, Tur...

A team led by George Church has used CRISPR to make a record number of DNA changes in one cell, taking us a step closer to thoroughly re-writing our genomes

NASA scheduled the first ever spacewalk with only female astronauts this week, but it has been cancelled because there isn't enough time to configure a spacesuit that fits

Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?

Since March 25, 2019, the Belle II detector instrument in Japan has been measuring collisions of particles generated in the SuperKEKB accelerator. The new duo produces more than 50 times the number of collisions compared...

A team at the University of Tokyo has described in unprecedented detail the rare phenomenon of liquid-to-liquid phase transitions in a pure substance. By showing how a liquid made of just one type of molecule can switch ...

The mightiest Tyrannosaurus rex on record is a behemoth named Scotty, who -- during its lifetime on Earth about 65 million years ago -- weighed a honking 19,555 lbs. (8,870 kilograms), or about as much as 6.5 Volkswagen ...