Surprise twist suggests stars grow competitively
Credit: Takemura et al. A survey of star formation activity in the Orion Nebula Cluster found similar mass distributions for newborn stars and dense gas...
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Autism develops differently in girls than boys, new research suggests
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications New research has shed light on how autism-spectrum disorder (ASD) manifests in the brains of girls, prompting the scientists...
Leonardo da Vinci definitely did not sculpt the Flora bust
Credit: © SMB-SPK "It is machination, it is deception," said the Director General of the Berlin Royal Museums in his defence when criticized for buying...
Inspired by data warehousing: A new platform integrates disparate information systems
A new digital platform called Research Integrated Network of Systems (RINS) facilitates information sharing about clinical studies across disparate systems.Credit: Illustration by Danielle Hutchison. Academic...
Experiments cast doubts on the existence of quantum spin liquids
Report in ScienceCredit: University of Stuttgart, PI1 When temperatures drop below zero degrees Celsius, water turns to ice. But does everything actually freeze if you...
A new drought monitoring approach: Vector Projection Analysis (VPA)
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has proposed a satellite-aided drought monitoring method that can adequately represent the complex drought conditions into...
Fit matters most when double masking to protect yourself from COVID-19
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that wearing two face coverings can nearly double the effectiveness of filtering out SARS-CoV-2-sized particles, preventing them...
Scientists report remarkable enhancement of α-particle clustering in uranium isotopes
Credit: ZHANG Zhiyuan It is always exciting to find new isotopes with extreme neutron/proton numbers in nuclear physics research. In the region of heavy nuclei,...
$50 million for WA to process signals from the dawn of time
Credit: ICRAR, SKAO The federal government will invest $50 million to establish a centre in Perth to process and analyse data from the Square Kilometre...
Study sheds light on stellar origin of 60Fe
Credit: Physical Review Letters Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators have recently made great...
Wearable sensors that detect gas leaks
Credit: POSTECH Gas accidents such as toxic gas leakage in factories, carbon monoxide leakage of boilers, or toxic gas suffocation during manhole cleaning continue to...
Thermoelectric material discovery sets stage for new forms of electric power in the future
Clemson physicist joins forces with collaborators from China and Denmark to create hybrid compoundCredit: Clemson University College of Science Thermoelectrics directly convert heat into electricity...
Highly dense urban areas are not more vulnerable to COVID-19, researchers say
Credit: Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir, Ayyoob Sharifi & Nabi Moradpour A person who owns a car or who has a college education may be less vulnerable...
Combining news media and AI to rapidly identify flooded buildings
Credit: MLIT, Shikoku Regional Development Bureau Artificial intelligence (AI) has sped up the process of detecting flooded buildings immediately after a large-scale flood, allowing emergency...
Generation of super-resolved optical needle and multifocal array using graphene oxide metalenses
Credit: Opto-Electronic Advances In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI https://doi.org/10.29026/oea.2021.200031, Researchers led by Professor Baohua Jia at Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria, Australia,...