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Are search engines bursting the filter bubble? Study finds political ideology plays bigger role than algorithms
Political ideology and user choice—not algorithmic curation—are the biggest drivers of engagement with partisan and unreliable…
Spiny mice found to have bone-plated tails
Mammals are a bit odd when it comes to bones. Rather than the bony plates and…
DNA facilitates escape from metastability in self-assembling systems
Prof. Liang Haojun from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese…
Failed antibiotic could be a game-changing weed killer for farmers
Weed killers of the future could soon be based on failed antibiotics. Click here…
The world's worst animal disease is killing frogs worldwide—a testing breakthrough could help save them
For the past 40 years, a devastating fungal disease has been ravaging frog populations around the…
Why are killer whales attacking boats? Expert Q&A
Orcas living off Europe’s Iberian coast recently struck and sunk a yacht in the Strait of…
Astronomers explore a recently discovered luminous quasar
Using various space telescopes, an international team of astronomers have observed a recently detected luminous quasar…
Progressive quantum leaps—high-speed, thin-film lithium niobate quantum processors driven by quantum emitters
Scalable photonic quantum computing architectures require photonic processing devices. Such platforms rely on low-loss, high-speed, reconfigurable…
Data from Juno suggest lightning on Jupiter pulses in ways similar to lightning on Earth
A team of space scientists affiliated with several institutions in Czechia, Japan and the U.S. has…