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Discovery of 'young' deep groundwater tells surprising tale
Groundwater at depths of several hundred meters or more can be hundreds of millions of years…
Engineers develop new tool that will allow for more personalized cell therapies
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities team has, for the first time, developed a new tool…
A new method to detect exoplanets
In recent years, a large number of exoplanets have been found around single “normal” stars. New…
Mapping urban heat from the ground up
Just one year ago, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory assembled…
New fossil shows four-legged fishapod that returned to the water while Tiktaalik ventured onto land
A meme has been circulating online during the pandemic featuring Tiktaalik roseae, the iconic, four-legged “fishapod”…
Mammals were not the first to be warm-blooded
Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat…
Strange new phase of matter created in quantum computer acts like it has two time dimensions
By shining a laser pulse sequence inspired by the Fibonacci numbers at atoms inside a quantum…
Human eggs remain healthy for decades by putting 'batteries on standby mode'
Immature human egg cells skip a fundamental metabolic reaction thought to be essential for generating energy,…
Discovery of unique protein brings us a step closer insect-resistant crops
Plants face constant attack by diseases, insect swarms, and fungi, resulting in crop losses that threaten…