South American rivers are home to at least three different species of electric eels, including a newly identified species capable of generating a greater electrical discharge than any other known …read more Source:: Science
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TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate ‘sub-Neptune’
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•NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. The planets orbit a star just 73 light …read more Source:: Science
World’s smallest fossil monkey found in Amazon jungle
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•Some 18 million years ago, a tiny monkey weighing little more than a baseball lived in the Amazon rainforest, the smallest fossil monkey known worldwide. The finding is based on …read more Source:: Science
Insects feel persistent pain after injury, evidence suggests
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•Scientists have known insects experience something like pain, but new research provides compelling evidence suggesting that insects also experience chronic pain that lasts long after an initial injury has healed. …read more Source:: Science
Ultra-small nanoprobes could be a leap forward in human-machine interfaces
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•Machine enhanced humans — or cyborgs as they are known in science fiction — could be one step closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research. …read more Source:: Science
How multi-celled animals developed
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•New findings challenge the long-standing idea that multi-celled animals evolved from a single-celled ancestor resembling a modern sponge cell known as a choanocyte. …read more Source:: Science
Physicists ‘teleport’ logic operation between separated ions
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•Physicists have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic operation between two separated ions (electrically charged atoms), showcasing how quantum computer programs could carry out tasks in …read more Source:: Science
Chemistry of stars sheds new light on the Gaia Sausage
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•Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved in a major collision with …read more Source:: Science
What a never-before-seen radioactive decay could tell us about neutrinos
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•In a new set of results, chemists have laid the foundation for a single-atom illumination strategy called barium tagging. Their achievement is the first known imaging of single atoms in …read more Source:: Science
Mysterious eruption came from Campi Flegrei caldera
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•The caldera-forming eruption of Campi Flegrei (Italy) 40,000 years ago is the largest known eruption in Europe during the last 200,000 years, but little is known about other large eruptions …read more Source:: Science