But two groups of theorists are still working to reconcile their predictions of what g-2 should be, while they wait for more data from the Fermilab experiment. The g-2 anomaly is still very much ali… [+1596 chars]
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led research team has solved a longstanding mystery surrounding strontium titanate, an unusual metal oxide that can be an insulator, a semiconductor, or a metal.… [+4206 chars]
Bryné Hadnott, MSc: To tears and applause, Dr Jamila Pegues successfully defended her thesis on protoplanetary disks to a virtually crowded Zoom room of dozens of people, becoming the first Black wom… [+6098 chars]
ByEmily Caldwell, Ohio State UniversityJune 13, 2022 Recently scientists uncovered a treasure trove of new data about RNA viruses in the ocean including 5,500 new RNA virus species. Analysis suggest… [+10806 chars]
One of the most interesting discoveries about Earth in the past few decades concerns the Earth’s magnetic poles. Paleomagnetic records show that the poles have flipped places 183 times in the last 83… [+9478 chars]
As you're reading this sentence, the cells in your brain, called neurons, are sending rapid-fire electrical signals between each other, transmitting information. They're doing so via tiny, specialize… [+2792 chars]
The following is an excerpt from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we pass a keyboard to a physicist or two to tell you about exciting ideas from their universal corner. You can sign up … [+2549 chars]
For many years, the human genome was viewed as a book of life in which sections of great eloquence and economy of expression were interspersed with vast stretches of gibberish. The legible sections c… [+6633 chars]
Animals Six-week-old male BKS.Cg-Dock7m+/+Leprdb/J (db/db) mice were purchased from the Oriental Yeast Co. (Tokyo, Japan) and allowed free access to food and water. The room temperature was maintain… [+9762 chars]
Newswise — On a beautiful fall day in 2019, Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong was walking down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado when something caught her eye: a small, particularly shiny blue fruit, on a sh… [+5218 chars]
Antarctic fish have evolved to surviveand thrive under unbearable conditions. They make their living at the sub-zero Centigrade, freezing temperatures of the ice-filled Southern Ocean, and they keep … [+4362 chars]
The following is an excerpt from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we pass a keyboard to a physicist or two to tell you about exciting ideas from their universal corner. You can sign up … [+2549 chars]