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Under a business-as-usual-scenario, 65 per cent of land animals and plants in the Antarctic will decline by the end of the century, with Emperor penguins among those that will endure the steepest population loss

Multiple neurodegenerative disorders harbor similar fundamental dysfunctional cellular processes.

A metallic alloy of chromium, cobalt, and nickel is over 100 times tougher than graphene and gets even more resistant to damage at extremely low temperatures.

People who score higher for empathy traits are better able to understand and decode the emotional sounds of animals.

Ten children with the rare condition Artemis-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency had their immune systems either partially or fully restored with gene-replacement therapy

Much of modern electronic and computing technology is based on one idea: Add chemical impurities, or defects, to semiconductors to change their ability to conduct electricity. These altered materials are then combined in...

How would our world be viewed by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? Such a picture would be clearly different from what we encounter every day. "We should expect to see not only phenomena that happen spontan...

The National Science Review recently published a study by Huaping Wang's group at Zhejiang University. Inspired by electromagnetic metamaterials, the research team designed and fabricated a water wave superscattering dev...

Prof. Duanduan Wan and Prof. Meng Xiao at the School of Physics of Wuhan University recently published a study in the journal National Science Review. Their work provides a simple while intuitive example, demonstrating w...

By channelling nearly 90 per cent of their blood into their liver while sleeping, glass frogs more than double their transparency - without any apparent health consequences

Glassfrogs can render themselves nearly invisible while they sleep with a unique trick; they pack nearly 90% of their red blood into one of their organs.

A telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory could cut satellite interference in its images by half by sacrificing about 10 per cent of the time spent observing the night sky

The use of light to produce transient phases in quantum materials is fast becoming a novel way to engineer new properties in them, such as the generation of superconductivity or nanoscale topological defects. However, vi...

The state's ambitious plan to be carbon-neutral by 2045 relies on carbon offsets through the state's forests. But scientists say it may be causing more harm than good

A recent Nature publication continues to generate headlines over its findings that scientists from the California Institute of Technology developed a model of a traversable wormhole on the Google Sycamore quantum process...

Robots and autonomous cars will have eyes that see much more than the human eye is capable of, a review of the growing field of meta-optics has found.

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered new artifacts and carvings from the Cave of Salome, a place of pilgrimage for early Christians who thought that it was the burial place for Salmone, the supposed midwife of Jesus.

Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a revolutionary programmable integrated microwave photonic filter with a record-breaking dynamic range. This represents a major breakthrough in the integration of fu...

As the world attempts to transition away from fossil fuels over the next several decades, critical minerals will likely be among the world's most sought-after commodities. The US isn't in a great position with respect to...

Positrons are anti-particles of electrons. At SuperKEKB B-Factory (SuperKEKB), they are produced in copious amounts and smashed into electrons at world-record luminosity. By studying the hundreds of decay patterns of B m...

The infamous barbarian's most devastating incursions took place in years with extremely dry summers.

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