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Science • May 06

Magnetic 'super lenses' open new window on high-temperature superconductors

An international research team, including scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), has achieved a methodological breakthrough in the...

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Science • May 06

Purcell-enhanced spin–phonon coupling with a single colour centre

The radiative properties of emitters are inherently linked to their surrounding environment1. Placing an electromagnetic resonator around emitters can...

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Science • May 06

The Moon's Mysterious Origins Still Stump Astronomers

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the Moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely...

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Science • May 06

Imaging the flat bands of magic-angle graphene reshaped by interactions

Electron interactions in quantum materials fundamentally shape their energy bands and, with them, the material's most intriguing quantum phases.

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Science • May 06

Specific expansion of motor cortical projections in a singing mouse

Elucidating how modifications in neural circuit architecture drive behavioural innovation remains a key challenge in neuroscience and evolutionary biology.

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Science • May 06

SpaceX is starting to move on from the world’s most successful rocket

It is far too soon to mention retirement, but astute observers of the space industry have noticed SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket is not launching as...

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Science • May 06

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke opens up about unprecedented medical event that cut mission short

Mike Fincke watched the Apollo 11 mission and historic lunar landing on television as a toddler. Young as he was, he remembers the watershed moment in 1969...

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Science • May 06

Expanding the human proteome with microproteins and peptideins

A major scientific drive is to characterize the protein-coding genome, which is a primary basis for studying human health. But the fundamental question...

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Science • May 06

Blue Origin’s new moon lander just survived extreme space testing on Earth

A bold step toward returning humans to the Moon is underway with Blue Origin's uncrewed MK1 “Endurance” lander, designed to test the technologies that...

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Science • May 06

Scientists Have One Big Question After Reconstructing A 3.7 Million-Year-Old Face

"Little Foot" isn't just a beloved character from "The Land Before Time," it's also the name given to the fossil of a human ancestor found in a South...

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Science • May 06

Roman Space Telescope poised to transform hunt for elusive neutron stars

Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be scattered throughout the Milky Way...

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Science • May 06

How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling in from the cold together

By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today,...

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Science • May 06

Why twisted bilayer graphene stops superconducting near high-dielectric substrates

Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity with a resistance of zero. In so-called conventional superconductors, this occurs at low...

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Science • May 06

Microproteins and Peptideins Expand Boundaries of the Human Proteome

Researchers hope to “inspire a new wave of research into peptideins and to unlock new insights and drug targets across human biology.”

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Science • May 06

Ancient Bite Marks Suggest Tyrannosaurs Were Not Just Hunters

New research led by Aarhus University paleontologists overturns the image of tyrannosaurs as pure apex predators. An analysis of 16 precisely mapped bite...

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Science • May 06

Pee planet: Scientists discover distant planet with atmosphere that actually smells like urine

Astronomers have discovered a planet 12 lightyears away from Earth with an atmosphere that smells like urine.

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Science • May 06

Watch NASA’s Curiosity Rover Struggle to Break Loose From a Rock on Mars

The rover spent five days with the rock attached to its arm before finally shaking it off.

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Science • May 06

Europe's 1st reusable spacecraft 'Space Rider' clears key hurdles on the road to launch

Space Rider, a novel spacecraft concept from the European Space Agency, is passing key milestones in its tests and qualifications to bring the vehicle to...

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Science • May 06

Does Time Exist in Two States at Once? Optical Ion Clocks Could Reveal the Quantum Nature of Time, New Research Says

The strange quantum nature of time moves one step closer to being untangled, thanks to new research on optical ion clocks that could allow scientists to...

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Science • May 06

The human genome encodes for a new category of molecule

Scientists have identified peptideins, a new class of small protein-like molecules in human cells that may offer targets for cancer immunotherapy and drug...

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