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A new formula that connects a material’s magnetic permeability to spin dynamics has been derived and tested 84 years…
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Changes at Reading leave chemistry students worried about their future | News
Chemistry students at the University of Reading say that they are facing an uncertain future following news of planned changes to the department, announced at the end of last year.
Although the University of Reading has decided not to close…
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NASA’s Experimental Hybrid Hydrogen Engine Could Finally Cut Flight Emissions : ScienceAlert
Air travel produces around 2.5 percent of all global CO2 emissions, and despite decades of effort in developing alternative fuels or more efficient aircraft designs, that number hasn’t budged much.
However, NASA – also the US’s Aeronautics…
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Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve
New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth’s surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish.
By chemically analysing crystals in ancient rocks, the researchers…
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Toward high electro-optic performance in III-V semiconductors
From integrated photonics to quantum information science, the ability to control light with electric fields — a phenomenon known as the electro-optic effect — supports vital applications such as light modulation and frequency transduction….
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Humans inherited their flexible joints from the earliest jawed fish
The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a study published February 25 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Neelima…
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Pygmaclypeatus daziensis, a unique lower Cambrian arthropod with two different compound eye systems
Schoenemann, B. & Clarkson, E. N. K. At first sight–functional analysis of lower Cambrian eye systems. Palaeontogr. A 297, 123–149 (2012).
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Vannier, J. & Chen, J. Y. The Early…
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LTT 9779 b: A Window into Extreme Exoplanetary Weather
What can an extremely hot Neptune-sized exoplanet teach scientists about exoplanetary weather? This is what a recent study published Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team of researchers…
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Giant Flying Squirrels Once Lived in North America
Paleontologists have found the 4.9-million-year-old (Early Pliocene) fossilized remains of the extinct flying squirrel Miopetaurista webbi in Tennessee, the United States. The occurrence of the genus Miopetaurista in eastern North America is…
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Medieval church discovered beneath Eschwege car park
Construction works to transform a former car park into a public space has revealed the remains of a medieval church.
Situated near the Nikolaiturm in Eschwege, Germany, the structure’s massive hewn limestone foundations suggest it once covered…
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