The significant role of beta cell ‘hubs’ in the pancreas has been demonstrated for the…
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What hunter-gatherers can tell us about fundamental human social networks
Long before the advent of social media, human social networks were built around sharing a…
Atmospheric chemistry on paper
Normally computers speed up calculations. But with his new pen-and-paper formula, a researcher gets his…
Protecting ice memory
The project’s first mission to protect the world’s ice memory will be launched in France…
Neanderthals in Germany: First population peak, then sudden extinction
Neanderthals once populated the entire European continent. Around 45,000 years ago, Homo neanderthalensis was the…
Making magnets flip like cats at room temperature
Heusler alloy NiMnSb could prove valuable as a new material for digital information processing and…
Super-eruptions may give a year’s warning before they blow
A microscopic analysis of quartz crystals from an ancient California super-eruption indicates that the process…
Watching the brain do math
A new neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving…
Integration of novel materials with silicon chips makes new ‘smart’ devices possible
Materials researchers have developed a way to integrate novel functional materials onto a computer chip,…
Can palm oil be sustainable?
A new study shows to where and to what extent palm oil plantations could be…