Graphene just broke a fundamental law of physics
For several decades, a central puzzle in quantum physics has remained unsolved: Could electrons behave like a perfect, frictionless fluid...
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Enceladus’s plumes may be fooling us about life
Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed...
MIT scientists uncover shocking origin of the moon’s magnetic scars
Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up...
A weirdly shaped telescope could finally find Earth 2. 0
The Earth supports the only known life in the universe, all of it depending heavily on the presence of liquid...
Common heart drug taken by millions found useless, possibly risky
Beta blockers—drugs commonly prescribed for a range of cardiac conditions, including heart attacks—provide no clinical benefit for patients who have...
The Higgs boson just revealed a new secret at the Large Hadron Collider
The ATLAS Collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson...
Mysterious “little red dots” could reveal how the first black holes formed
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe's...
Scientists reveal how just two human decisions rewired the Great Salt Lake forever
Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now,...
Scientists just made vibrations so precise they can spot a single molecule
Just as overlapping ripples on a pond can amplify or cancel each other out, waves of many kinds -- including...
Blood pressure cuff errors may be missing 30% of hypertension cases
Researchers have found why common cuff-based blood pressure readings are inaccurate and how they might be improved, which could improve...
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