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Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun’s fusion
A hyper-sensitive instrument, deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos (tiny...
Climate change as a catalyst in Greater Cahokia
Water and air are highly mutable resources that exist in a myriad of physical states and dimensions, and due to...
Shape-Changing Robots that Adapt to Their Environments
When danger approaches, the Moroccan flic-flac spider takes the shape of a ball and rolls away to safety. Just as...
European colonization accelerated erosion tenfold
Rates of soil erosion and alluvium accumulation in North America accelerated 10-fold after Europeans colonized the continent, according to new...
The solar system follows the galactic standard—but it is a rare breed
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have investigated more than 1000 planetary systems orbiting stars in our...
Researchers explore population size, density in rise of centralized power in antiquity
Early populations shifted from quasi-egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies to communities governed by a centralized authority in the middle to late Holocene,...
Covid infections in England fall by 30% over lockdown – React study
By Rachel Schraer Health reporter Coronavirus infections in England have fallen by about a third over lockdown, according to a...
Unprecedented accuracy in quantum electrodynamics: Giant leap toward solving proton charge radius puzzle
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have tested quantum mechanics to a completely new level of precision...
Galaxy survives black hole’s feast—for now
Black holes are thought to gobble up so much surrounding material that they put an end to the life of...
Mine ponds amplify mercury risks in Peru’s Amazon
The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in...