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Fishing makes fish flee instead of mating

Biology7 Aug, 2024

New research shows that fishing at squaretail grouper spawning sites disrupt mating. Males are repeatedly scared away during their short mating periods, losing time...

World’s coldest quantum detectors to search for most sensitive dark matter

Space4 Jul, 2024

One of the greatest mysteries of science could be one step closer to being solved.

Floating solar panels could supply total electricity needs of some countries

Technology4 Jun, 2024

Global potential of deploying low-carbon floating solar arrays.

How does 2D quantum superfluid feel to touch?

Quantum Physics2 Nov, 2023

Nobody has been able to answer this question during the 100-year history of quantum physics.

A New Antarctica study shows that levels of toxic chemicals increased markedly

Environment29 Jul, 2022

Levels of ‘forever chemicals’ reaching the remote continent have been increasing.

Scientists created the first ”time-crystal” two-body system

Quantum Physics6 Jun, 2022

Time crystals are “impossible” but obey quantum physics.

Precise measurement of a fundamental principle of the standard model of particle physics

Science6 Jul, 2021

Scientists discovered support for the disputed universal truth of particle physics.

Why objects moving through superfluid lack a speed limit?

Quantum Computing21 Sep, 2020

The discovery may guide applications in quantum technology, even quantum computing.

Scientists witnessed the interaction of two time crystals for the first time

Science19 Aug, 2020

A major achievement.

A step towards producing heat-tolerant wheat

Science4 May, 2020

Plants have Rubisco activase (Rca) that tells the plant's energy-producing compound (Rubisco) to kick on in sunlight and signals it to stop when the...