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Thriving underwater 'gardens' found off Wellington's coast
A huge diversity of marine life, including brightly colored sponges, has been found in deep-water reefs…
Social mobility across generations may be substantially overstated, study shows
New research measuring resources passed from parents to children shows that current estimates of intergenerational mobility…
Encrypted, one-touch, human-machine interface technology unveils user physiology
Researchers at UCLA and Stanford University have developed a secure, noninvasive, one-touch technology using hydrogel-coated chemical…
Radiocarbon dating only works half the time. We may have found the solution
Dating is everything in archaeology. Exciting discoveries of ancient burial sites or jewelry might make headlines,…
Researchers generate fusion at 100 million Kelvin for 20 seconds
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in South Korea working with two colleagues from…
Biologists discover genetic pathways linking the immune and circulatory systems of mosquitoes during infection
Vanderbilt biologists have discovered the genetic pathways that link the immune and circulatory systems of mosquitoes…
America's aging infrastructure sags under the pressure of climate change
The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the U.S., with the…
New in-silico-designed protein 'probes' could pave the way to early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases
A team of researchers from the IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) has designed…
What is neoliberalism? A political scientist explains the use and evolution of the term
Neoliberalism is a complex concept that many people use—and overuse—in different and often conflicting ways. …