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(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) IFJ PAN scientists together with colleagues from the University of Milano (Italy) and other countries confirmed the need to include the...

The US Marine Corps is testing a long-range alternative to stun guns - it is a projectile that can be fired from a shotgun and that uses a parachute to slow down before delivering an electric shock

A new study highlights the most common neurological and psychological complications that arise as a result of coronavirus infection. The most common brain complication was stroke, reported in 77 of 125 patients studied. ...

For half a millennium, people have tried to enhance human vision by technical means. While the human eye is capable of recognizing features over a wide range of size, it reaches its limits when peering at objects over gi...

Adding an exotic particle known as a Xi hyperon to a helium nucleus with three nucleons could produce a nucleus that is temporarily stable, calculations by RIKEN nuclear physicists have predicted. This result will help e...

Traditional lenses--like the ones found in eyeglasses--are bulky, heavy and only focus light across a limited number of wavelengths. A new, ultrathin metalens developed by researchers at the University of California, Ber...

People with dyslexia experience difficulties when acoustic variation was added to speech sounds. In the absence of the variation, neural speech sound processing was consistent between dyslexic and typical readers. Diffic...

A trio of theoretical physicists at the Pennsylvania State University has calculated the upper limit for the possible quantization of time--they suggest 10'33 seconds as the upper limit for the period of a universal osci...

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne scientists have coupled a new material with light at the level of a single photon. The achievement opens up prospects for better controlling and understanding the properties of qu...

Air quality could reach dangerous levels across a wide chunk of the continental U.S. and Caribbean this weekend as a rare, giant Saharan dust storm reaches the U.S.

A mint product that contained gymnemic acids from the Gymnema sylvestre plant significantly reduced the intake of high-sugar sweet foods compared to a placebo. For those with a sweet tooth, the mint significantly decreas...

Moons are ubiquitous in our solar system, but we have not definitively found any farther afield - that may be changing with 6 new exomoon candidates

Modern physics knows a great deal about how the universe works, from the grand scale of galaxies down to the infinitesimally small size of quarks and gluons. Still, the answers to some major mysteries, such as the nature...

Alaska's Okmok volcano eruption in 43 B.C. had far-reaching impacts on climate in the Mediterranean, leading to famine and social disruption in the Roman Republic.

The UK-wide coronavirus lockdown led to a drop in nitrogen dioxide levels to concentrations not seen in the past decade, according to a network of air pollution sensors

Trace metals like iron and copper became rare in the oceans around 2 billion years ago, around when complex "eukaryotic" cells first appeared

A study of managers in veterinary medicine - where over half the workforce is female - finds that women are seen as less competent and worthy of lower salary compared with men with identical performance reviews

Pooled testing allows one diagnostic test to be used on several samples.

In a new study of axion motion, researchers propose a scenario known as "kinetic misalignment" that greatly strengthens the case for axion/dark matter equivalence. The novel concept answers key questions related to the o...

IFJ PAN scientists together with colleagues from the University of Milano (Italy) and other countries confirmed the need to include the three-nucleon interactions in the description of electromagnetic transitions in the ...

The United States had its second day of record-high cases of COVID-19. Not all states are faring the same; here's what to look out for in your state.

Using the large synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8 in Japan, a collaboration of researchers from Kumamoto University, the University of Tokyo, and others from Japan and France have precisely measured the density of ...