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Physics
You’ve heard of string theory. What about knot theory?
February 9, 2016UB knot theorist Bill Menasco’s personalized license plate. Credit: Douglas Levere You may not have heard...
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Physics
How particles pack in a confined space
February 9, 2016Pictured is a sampling of clusters of the Platonic solids, each of which packs densely inside...
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Technology
Computer as driver? ‘Yes’ from feds boosts self-driving cars (Update)
February 9, 2016This May 13, 2015, file photo, shows Google’s new self-driving car during a demonstration at the...
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Technology
Twitter lets hot tweets rise to top of timelines
February 9, 2016The tweaked format aims to inject new life into the struggling one-to-many messaging service by moving...
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Physics
Improved nuclear magnetic resonance technique allows researchers to measure signals from a single molecule
February 9, 2016Nearly octahedral diamond crystal in matrix. Image: Wikimedia Commons (Phys.org)—An effort by a combined team of...
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Physics
Materials by design: A radical shift in transforming bulk matter into useful technology
February 9, 2016Fig. 1. Phase transitions and flat landscapes. If a materials design problem features a phase transition...
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Biology
You scratch my back and I might scratch yours: The grooming habits of wild chimpanzees
February 9, 2016Chimpanzees. Credit: Dr Nicholas Newton-Fisher Bystanders can influence the way adult male chimpanzees establish grooming interactions...
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Physics
Has the magic gone from Calcium-52?
February 9, 2016The laser launch stations at COLLAPS at the ISOLDE facility where the new discovery was made....
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Technology
Renewable energy employed 8.1 million in 2015: IRENA
May 24, 2016China, Brazil, the United States, India, Japan and Germany were the top countries in providing jobs...
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Other
Women in southern Germany Corded Ware culture may have been highly mobile
May 24, 2016Location of sampled sites and other CW sites mentioned in the text. Credit: Map by K-G...
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Biology
US fishing generated more than $200 billion in sales in 2015; two stocks rebuilt in 2016
May 8, 2017Total sales generated by US commercial and recreational fishing industries, 2015. Credit: NOAA U.S. commercial and...
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Biology
This is what happened to you after death, a video shows, Hail Science
December 6, 2015We can thank the majority of human history for giving science the ability to examine the...
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Technology
Ransomware, the weapon wielded in cyber attacks
June 26, 2017Ransomware, which is a type of virus that locks computer files until the user pays a...
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Biology
How Lyme disease bacteria spread through the body
August 24, 2016Individual bacteria, shown in unique colors, interacting with the surface of human endothelial cells under flow....
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Technology
Finding solitude in an era of perpetual contact
May 26, 2016Don’t neglect to unplug and be actually alone. Credit: shutterstock.com Being alone has many benefits. It...
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Physics
Twelve from MIT honored by the American Physical Society
October 30, 2017Twelve members of the MIT community are among those recently honored with prizes and fellowships by...
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Astronomy and Space
NASA: Massive Cloud on Collision Course with the Milky Way
December 7, 2016In 1963, an astronomy student named Gail Smith working at an observatory in the Netherlands discovered...