Galactic ‘lightsabers’: Answering longstanding questions about jets from black holes
The one thing everyone knows about black holes is that absolutely everything nearby gets sucked into them. Credit: Video by ...
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New study finds connection between long-standing gender and racial gaps in voting for Democrats
The persistent gender gap in voting for Democrats versus Republicans is, in part, because a higher proportion of women than ...
First-of-its-kind measurement of the Universe’s expansion rate weighs in on a longstanding debate in physics and astronomy
Thanks to data from a magnified, multiply imaged supernova, a team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has ...
Research reveals longstanding cultural continuity at oldest occupied site in West Africa
Evidence from West Africa about human evolution remains scarce, but recent research has indicated unique patterns of cultural change in ...
New insights into chordate body plan development answer long-standing questions on evolution
Life began on earth more than 3.5 billion years ago, but the history of humans and other vertebrates accounts for ...
New study settles long-standing debate: Does agricultural erosion create a carbon sink or source
Over the last decade, researchers have sounded the alarm on soil erosion being the biggest threat to global food security. ...
Completing the long-standing puzzle of biodiversity: How ecology can help us identify missing pieces
Biodiversity databases are not “talking” to each other: species occurrences records and maps from different data sources do not match, ...
World’s largest computing society honors 2022 Distinguished Members for ground-breaking achievements and longstanding participation
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 67 Distinguished Members for significant contributions. All of the 2022 inductees are ...
Long-standing genomic mystery about the origins of introns explained in new study
One of the most long-standing, fundamental mysteries of biology surrounds the poorly understood origins of introns. Introns are segments of ...
Study: Canada geese beat humans in longstanding territory battle
URBANA, Ill. – Canada geese collide with aircraft, intimidate unassuming joggers, and leave lawns and sidewalks spattered with prodigious piles ...
New tech solves longstanding challenges for self-healing materials
Engineering researchers have developed a new self-healing composite that allows structures to repair themselves in place, without having to be ...
AI researchers tackle longstanding ‘data heterogeneity’ problem for federated learning
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new approach to federated learning that allows them to develop accurate ...
Scientists solve long-standing mystery: Why do some asthma patients respond poorly to treatment?
Patients with the most severe form of asthma produce special substances in their airways when taking medicine during an asthma ...
Palaeospondylus: Long-standing mystery of vertebrate evolution solved using powerful X-rays
The Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory led by Shigeru Kuratani at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan, along with collaborators, has ...
Ending the debate: New research solves longstanding antarctic climate change mystery
AMHERST, Mass. – New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst definitively resolves a long-standing discrepancy in the geologic ...
‘Quantum friction’ slows water flow through carbon nanotubes, resolving long-standing fluid dynamics mystery
For 15 years, scientists have been baffled by the mysterious way water flows through the tiny passages of carbon nanotubes ...
Simple silicon coating solves long-standing optical challenge
Quick bursts of laser light, lasting less than a trillionth of a second, are used in a range of applications ...
Elastic polymer that is both stiff and tough, resolves long-standing quandary
Polymer science has made possible rubber tires, Teflon and Kevlar, plastic water bottles, nylon jackets among many other ubiquitous features ...