DNA in preserved museum specimens can allow scientists to explore the history of species and humanities…
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Nesting nanotubes to create 1-D van der Waals heterostructures
An international team of researchers has found a new way to create 1-D heterostructures—by nesting nanotubes.…
Chemists simplify the synthesis of antitumor compounds
A RUDN chemist in collaboration with colleagues from N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry and N.K.…
Your brain on Mars: How scientists will track astronauts' mental performance on missions
A journey to Mars is not going to be easy and there are a number of…
Inoculation theory: The vaccine for climate disinformation
Australia’s recent bushfire crisis will be remembered for many things—not least, the tragic loss of life,…
Media 'impartiality' on climate change is ethically misguided and downright dangerous
In September 2019, the editor of The Conversation, Misha Ketchell, declared The Conversation’s editorial team in…
Exploring strangeness and the primordial Universe
Physicists believe that in the Universe’s first ten microseconds free quarks and gluons filled all of…
Image: Hubble spies bar, baby stars
The galaxy depicted in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a barred spiral known as NGC…
How do woodpeckers avoid brain injury?
Slamming a beak against the trunk of a tree would seem like an activity that would…
Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don't fit their worldview
Something is rotten in the state of American political life. The U.S. (among other nations) is…