• Physics 18, s8
Researchers find that two types of biological magnetic sensor can sense fields close to the quantum limit, a finding that could guide the design of lab-made devices.
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Biological Magnetic Sensing Comes Close to Quantum Limit
Strange Swapping Behavior Defines New Particle Candidate
• Physics 18, 11
Researchers predict the existence of a class of particles that behave differently from those already known.
M. Norton/Rice University.
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Ancient, engraved stones may have been buried to summon the sun
As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back.
A trove of engraved stones unearthed from ritual gathering sites on Bornholm,…
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Stanford Researchers Produce Ammonia Fuel From Thin Air
Lots of green energy experiments in the lab publish impressive results—but what’s more impressive is when those results come from an actual on-site pilot demonstration in the real world. That’s the case with new research that is able to…
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New Research Explores Decision-Making Processes of Early Hominin Tool-Makers
Paleoanthropologists have characterized the properties of raw stone materials that were selected and used by Early Pleistocene tool-makers at an Acheulian site in the Ethiopian Highlands between 1.6 and 1 million years ago.
Handaxes made on…
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Meta’s New Translation AI Is Nearly a Babel Fish
Universal translators in science fiction, such as the Babel fish in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, have long offered the dream of instantaneous translation from one spoken language to another. Now, in what may be a key step toward making…
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Iron Age Celtic women’s social and political power just got a boost
Celtic women’s social and political standing in Iron Age England has received a genetic lift.
DNA clues indicate that around 2,000 years ago, married women in a Celtic society, known as Durotrigians, on the coast of south-central…
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Brain Response Relies on Avalanches
• Physics 18, s4
A new model reveals that bursts of neural activity known as critical avalanches underlie the brain’s ability to respond consistently to stimuli.
According to the “critical brain hypothesis,” the…
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Orderly State of Electrons Melts on Camera
• Physics 18, 10
A cryogenic microscope reveals the atomic-scale processes that disrupt the charge-ordered state in a material as the temperature rises.
Melting away. Left: A map of the periodic lattice distortions… Continue Reading
Archaeologists Discover What May Be World’s Oldest Three-Dimensional Map
The Paleolithic rock shelter of Ségognole 3 in the Paris Basin contains a miniature representation of the surrounding landscape, says a team of archaeologists from the University of Adelaide and the MINES Paris – PSL.
View of the…
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