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Levitating nanoparticle improves ‘torque sensing’
Researchers have levitated a tiny nanodiamond particle with a laser in a vacuum chamber, using…
Bats use second sense to hunt prey in noisy environments
Like many predators, the fringe-lipped bat primarily uses its hearing to find its prey, but…
2016 ties with 2007 for second lowest Arctic sea ice minimum
The Arctic’s ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent on September 10, 2016,…
First U.S. marine national monument created in Atlantic
Deep in the oceans exist some of the world’s oldest and most mysterious sea canyons…
A tight squeeze for electrons: Quantum effects observed in ‘one-dimensional’ wires
Researchers have observed quantum effects in electrons by squeezing them into one-dimensional ‘quantum wires’ and…
Echoes of black holes eating stars discovered
A black hole destroying a star, an event astronomers call ‘stellar tidal disruption,’ releases an…
Some ancient Mars lakes formed long after others
Lakes and snowmelt-fed streams on Mars formed much later than previously thought possible, according to…
Gaia’s billion star maps hints at treasures to come
The first catalog of more than a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia satellite was just…
Lowering systolic blood pressure would save more than 100,000 lives per year, study finds
Intensive treatment to lower systolic (top number) blood pressure to below 120 would save more…