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Giant Roo Relic Found in PNG

Palaeontologists from Flinders University in South Australia have described a new genus of giant fossil kangaroo from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea.

Global Fish Stocks Can’t Rebuild If Nothing Done to Halt Climate Change and Overfishing, New Study Suggests

Global fish stocks will not be able to recover to sustainable levels without strong actions to mitigate climate change, a new study has projected.

How the Brain Generates Rhythmic Behavior

MIT neuroscientists have identified an oscillatory circuit that controls the rhythmic movement of mouse whiskers.

Virginia Tech and Zimbabwean Paleontology Teams Lead Discovery and Naming of Africa’s Oldest Known Dinosaur

A Virginia Tech graduate student found and unearthed the fossil with other paleontologists during two digs in Zimbabwe in 2017 and 2019.

Life at Close Quarters

Larvae with extremely inflated trunks, fossilized in amber, are giving LMU zoologists insights into the evolution and lifestyle of early lacewings.

Individual Risk-Factor Data Could Help Predict the Next Ebola Outbreak, New Study Shows

Researchers confirm a relationship between social, economic and demographic factors and the propensity for individuals to engage in behaviors that expose them to Ebola spillover.

Changes to Florida's Climate Threaten Oyster Reefs, Usf Researchers Warn

With temperatures rising globally, cold weather extremes and freezes in Florida are diminishing

‘Naturally Insulating’ Material Emits Pulses of Superfluorescent Light at Room Temperature

Researchers looking to synthesize a brighter and more stable nanoparticle for optical applications found that their creation instead exhibited a more surprising property

Bound By Light

Glass nanoparticles show unexpected coupling when levitated with laser light

SU(N) Matter Is About 3 Billion Times Colder Than Deep Space

Universe’s coldest fermions open portal to high-symmetry quantum realm

Signs of Saturation Emerge from Particle Collisions at RHIC

Suppression of a telltale sign of quark-gluon interactions presented as evidence of multiple scatterings and gluon recombination in dense walls of gluons

Miniaturized Lab-On-A-Chip for Real-Time Chemical Analysis of Liquids

A fingertip-sized chip replaces bulky laboratory equipment. An infrared sensor has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna) that analyses the content of liquids within the fraction of a second.

Researchers Demonstrate Error Correction in a Silicon Qubit System

Researchers from RIKEN in Japan have achieved a major step toward large-scale quantum computing by demonstrating error correction in a three-qubit silicon-based quantum computing system.

Washing Dishes with Superheated Steam More Effective, Earth-Friendly

Conventional dishwashers often do not kill all the harmful microorganisms left on plates, bowls, and cutlery.

New Way Found to Turn #7 Plastic into Valuable Products

A method to convert a commonly thrown-away plastic to a resin used in 3D-printing could allow for making better use of plastic waste.

Better Metal Oxides to Boost the Green Credentials of Many Energy Applications

Metal oxides are compounds that play a crucial role in processes that reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Protein That Could Prevent Chemical Warfare Attack Created at Rutgers

A team that includes Rutgers scientists has designed a synthetic protein that quickly detects molecules of a deadly nerve agent that has been classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction and could be used in a chemical warfare attack.

Recycling Greenhouse Gases

CO2 and methane can be turned into valuable products. But until now the catalysts required for such reactions quickly lose their effectiveness. TU Wien has now developed more stable alternatives.

New Granular Hydrogel Bioink Could Expand Possibilities for Tissue Bioprinting

Every day in the United States, 17 people die waiting for an organ transplant, and every nine minutes, another person is added to the transplant waiting list, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration.