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Research shows Darwin and Wallace both right on butterfly evolution
Birdwing butterflies of the Troides haliphron species group, in which females (right) were observed to be more visibly diverse than ...
Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread
Lithouva – the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil ...
Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists
Researchers investigated three mysterious objects in the early universe. Shown here are their color images, composited from three NIRCam filter ...
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter captures huge volcano, nears 100,000 orbits
This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its ...
Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group
Microtomographic reconstruction of the head and anterior trunk (“body”) limbs of the trilobite Protolenus (Hupeolenus) in ventral view. Credit: Arnaud ...
Gravitational wave researchers cast new light on Antikythera mechanism mystery
Antikythera mechanism. Credit: National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece Techniques developed to analyze the ripples in spacetime detected by one of ...
Quantum computing trade-off problem addressed by new system
The circuit diagram to the left illustrates how the Chalmers researcher team was able to turn on and off different ...
Theory and experiment combine to shine a new light on proton spin
A global analysis of experimental data and lattice Quantum Chromodynamics calculations provides insight into the role of the gluons (purple ...
Potentially habitable ‘exo-Venus’ with Earth-like temperature discovered
Gliese 12 b, which orbits a cool, red dwarf star located just 40 light-years away, promises to tell astronomers more ...
Researchers realize multiphoton electron emission with non-classical light
Experimental scheme. Credit: Nature Physics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02472-6 Strong field quantum optics is a rapidly emerging research topic, which merges ...
