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Biology

‘Twilight zone’ fish swim silently with forked tails

Tail shape can help predict if a fish will be found at a greater range of...

Other

How face-to-face still beats Facebook: Limitations on the size of our offline social groups apply online as well

Social media may seem to be a way to make and maintain hundreds of friendships. But...

Biology

Disrupting cell’s supply chain freezes cancer virus

Green fluorescent dyes in this microscopic view mark the presence of the glucose transporter, GLUT1, on...

Biology

Grafted plants’ genomes can communicate with each other

A graft between two genotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana, shown in a confocal microscopy image. One genotype...

Earth

Greenhouse gas can escape the deep ocean in surprising way, new study says

Sediments being discharged from the Mississippi River. Credit: NOAA. A new scientific journal article reports that...

Biology

Togetherness relieves stress in Prairie voles

Too much elbow room raises alarm in prairie voles. Credit: Aubrey M. Kelly, Cornell University Many...

Physics

Watching electrons cool in 30 quadrillionths of a second

An illustration showing single layers of graphene with thin layers of insulating boron nitride that form...

Physics

Team theorizes defects could improve solar cells

Schematic of a ‘good’ defect (red cross), which helps collection of electrons from photo-absorber (n-Si), and...