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Electrical control method tunes magnetic properties for next-generation spintronic memory
A research team led by Professor Jung-Il Hong of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has successfully used current pulses to al
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What billiard balls reveal about computers and the limits of prediction
When is a billiard ball not a billiard ball? When mathematicians get involved and view a popular game as a model computer.
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Microcrystal electron diffractometer brings hidden hydrogen into focus
Hydrogen—the lightest atom—does the heavy lifting when it comes to important chemical reactions. It can be stored and released as clean fuel
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VR boosts English vocabulary scores for students with dyslexia, pilot study finds
Virtual reality (VR) could be a new tool to help students with dyslexia learn English vocabulary more effectively than conventional instruct
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Antibiotic resistance research calls for tests that reflect bacteria's changing environments
The World Health Organization (WHO) regards antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, as one of the world's major health ch
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Briny 'death pools' hold clues to early life
The origins of the earliest life on Earth, prior to the rise of oxygen and photosynthesis, remain a mystery. Graveyards in brine pools at th
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Astronomers detect radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time
Exoplanets are exotic worlds orbiting distant stars far beyond our solar system. Ever since the first ones were discovered in the 1990s, ast
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Day and night get equal billing on Tuesday. A guide to the fall equinox
The fall equinox is Tuesday, when light and darkness split the day evenly. It marks the beginning of fall for the Northern Hemisphere and th
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New statistical methods could lead to more reliable research findings
How much can we really trust a measurement? And how much data do researchers need to collect to draw reliable conclusions? Mohammad Reza Sey
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Emissions from the past decade have made Europe's recent heat waves worse
Recent heat waves in Europe have been intensified by the greenhouse gases emitted since nations committed to limiting global warming under t
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Gold nanoplasmonic chip tracks L-DOPA response in Parkinson's 'mini-brains'
Researchers have developed an organoid-on-a-chip technology that verifies the efficacy of Parkinson's disease treatments in real time. The t
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3I/ATLAS has an extreme taste for heavy water
More and more details about 3I/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known interstellar visitor attr
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Methane beneath the Greenland ice sheet shapes microbial life and influences the carbon cycle
A new study involving researchers from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, shows that methane concentration is among the key
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Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy
An international team of astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, the University of Amsterdam and other institutions has found the first so-called "mi
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Can a long-lived seabird evolve fast enough to avoid extinction under a changing climate?
As the climate changes, species face a critical question: Can they evolve quickly enough to keep pace with their changing environment?
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UN warns super El Niño a 'significant' threat to world health
El Niño represents a "significant" threat to global health, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as the world braces for a cycle of the climat
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The tilt in Earth's axis makes the apparent position of continents shift with the seasons
Most kids learn in elementary school that the seasons are caused by Earth rotating on a tilted axis during its yearly orbit around the sun.
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Hurricane Polo strengthens to top Category 5 off Mexico
Hurricane Polo reached maximum Category 5 strength off Mexico's Pacific coast Tuesday but is expected to stay at sea, the U.S. National Hurr
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Respiratory problems climb past 170,000 cases in haze-hit Indonesia
More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a Health Ministry official said Tuesday, as the
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Hot spring amoeba breaks record for heat tolerance of complex life
A tiny, single-celled organism can thrive at temperatures that would kill all other known complex life. In a study published in Cell, scient
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New tool aims to deliver graziers a faster, more accurate read on exactly how much feed is in front of their cattle
A drone lifts off over a paddock at Boorowa Agricultural Research Station, the breeze from its rotors setting the tall, uncut grass below ri
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A tiny chariot fitting reveals Egyptian glass reached Iron Age Britain
At the end of last year, curators from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford came to Diamond to learn more about a 2,000-year-old prehistoric artif
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Study finds families raising autistic children show resilience alongside higher stress
Families raising a child with autism may experience greater levels of stress, but new University of Kentucky research published in the journ
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Duncan Russet offers heat tolerance and virus resistance for southern potato growers
The latest potato variety released in August by the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program, the Duncan Russet potato, delivers disease resistance
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