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/ 1 week agoWhich venomous snakes strike the fastest?
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/ 1 week agoQuantum ‘echoes’ reveal the potential of Google’s quantum computer
Google says its quantum computer achieved a verifiable calculation that classic computers cannot. The work could point to future applications.Read More
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Thousands of at-risk manta and devil rays become accidental bycatch in tuna fishing nets every year. A simple sorting grid could...
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/ 1 week agoMost women get uterine fibroids. This researcher wants to know why
Biomedical engineer Erika Moore investigates diseases that disproportionately affect women of color.Read More
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/ 1 week agoAn ancient bone recasts how Indigenous Australians treated megafauna
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At an effective temperature of 13 million kelvins, the jiggling glass sphere could help scientists understand physics at the microscale.Read More
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Comparing animals’ susceptibility to optical illusions can show how perception evolved.Read More
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While ultramarathoners are capable of huge energy spurts, overall the athletes top out at 2.5 times the metabolic rate needed for...
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/ 2 weeks agoTwo teenagers have once again proved an ancient math rule
Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have published 10 trigonometric proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, a feat thought impossible for 2,000 years.Read...



