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PHOENIX — An abnormally huge cosmic structure has put a ring on it — and that bling might threaten a fundamental assumption of cosmology.

A ring of dense matter spans more than 3.3 billion light-years, cosmologist Alexia Lopez…

Prisoners on Alcatraz once risked the perilous waters in San Francisco Bay to escape the island’s high-security prison. Now, a wily coyote has been filmed doing the opposite: swimming to Alcatraz Island for the first time.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a stunning time-lapse of a trio of solar eruptions exploding into space from the sun during an “artificial eclipse.” The unique footage, captured by the newly operational Proba-3 mission, could help…

Mouse husbandry

Mice were housed in standard conditions on a 12-h light–dark cycle and provided with water and standard chow ad libitum. In some experiments, as documented in the main text, mice were provided with water infused with an…

A recent study proposes that gravity, the force shaping galaxies and anchoring planets, might not be fundamental after all. Instead, it could arise from entropy, a measure of disorder. The theory, developed by physicist and mathematician…

The number of cells of a given type in a tissue section can change by division or death, moving in or out of the section (flux) or transdifferentiation⁴⁰. If we restrict ourselves to modelling cell types that do not transdifferentiate at…

Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ —…