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Respiration key to increasing oxygen in the brain

Respiration provides a dynamic pathway for modulating cerebral oxygenation.

The effect of sleep on eyewitness memory

Sleep does not improve eyewitness identification accuracy.

EPFL’s student solves a 100-year-old physics enigma

Why gas bubbles in narrow vertical tubes seem to remain stuck instead of rising upwards.

Marine animals could help humans monitor oceans

Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans.

Controlling the optical properties of solids with acoustic waves

Large-amplitude acoustic waves, launched by ultrashort laser pulses, can dynamically manipulate the optical response of semiconductors.

Elizabeth I identified as the author of Tacitus translation

A new article argues that a manuscript translation of Tacitus's Annales, completed in the late sixteenth century and preserved at Lambeth Palace Library, was done by Queen Elizabeth I.

A highly sensitive implant to probe brain physiology

A new miniature NMR implant measures neuronal activity.

Largest atmospheric radar made the first measures of Earth’s ionosphere

Observations in the southern hemisphere are crucial to revealing global features of both the atmosphere and the ionosphere.

New framework could help in searching heavy thermal dark matter

A new mechanism of elementary thermal dark matter with a mass up to 1014 GeV

A milestone in quantum standardization

Establishing universal standards for measuring the performance of quantum computers.

First-ever recording of a blue whale’s heart rate

With a lot of ingenuity and a little luck, researchers monitored the heart rate of a blue whale in the wild.

Scientists find a place on earth, where there is no life

It is one of the most torrid environments on Earth.

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