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Science
Heat energy can travel through a complete vacuum
Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness
Health
Moisturizers may be turning your skin into ‘Swiss Cheese’
Researchers explain why some lotions do more harm than good.
Environment
Forest study shows how plants adapt to rising carbon dioxide
Study of the world’s tropical forests pinpoints how much water plants put back into the atmosphere compared to how much carbon they take up.
Space
Milky Way’s central black hole puts theory of general relativity to the test
Almost a century later, Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of General relativity. Now, scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles have tested...
Science
Physicists create exotic electron liquid
By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have made the first "electron liquid" at...
Science
How does the human brain marks time?
Neurobiologists from the University of California have recently discovered a key component of how the human brain marks time. For this work, they took...
Science
Researchers uncover a circuit for sadness in the human brain
Human brain networks that encode variation in the mood on naturalistic timescales remain largely unexplored. In a new study, scientists combined multi-site, semi-chronic, intracranial...
Technology
Scientists developed a neural network that operates on light
A group of scientists at the University of California has recently devised a new type of neural network that operates on light instead of...
Environment
Drought treatment reorganizes plants’ microbiomes
A new study by the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (PMB) suggests that presenting sorghum plant to drought conditions may enrich of a distinct set...
Technology
Making Batteries From Waste Glass Bottles
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have created nano silicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries out of waste glass bottles. As li-ion batteries found in...