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Category: Science
First quasiparticle Bose-Einstein condensate
Scientists have created a Bose-Einstein condensate out of excitons -- quasiparticles that combine electrons and positively charged...
Vocal communication originated over 400 million years a...
Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians, and fi...
Nestling birds recognize their local song 'dialect'
A recent study has shown that juvenile songbirds react to hearing the songs they will eventually produce as adults, even when they...
Chemical clues to the mystery of what's coating Stradiv...
Stradivarius violins produce elegant music with a level of clarity that is unparalleled by modern instruments, according to some m...
Ancient bacteria might lurk beneath Mars' surface
Scientists found that ancient bacteria could survive close to the surface on Mars much longer than previously assumed. So, if life...
Biblical military campaigns reconstructed using geomagn...
Researchers reconstructed the geomagnetic fields recorded in 21 archaeological destruction layers throughout Israel and used the d...
Fossil bird's skull reconstruction reveals a brain made...
Piecing together the crushed skull of a fossil bird that lived alongside the dinosaurs helped researchers extrapolate what its bra...
Insects contribute to atmospheric electricity
By measuring the electrical fields near swarming honeybees, researchers have discovered that insects can produce as much atmospher...
UK's oldest human DNA obtained, revealing two distinct ...
The first genetic data from Palaeolithic human individuals in the UK -- the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so fa...
Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive pe...
A study of nearly 2,000 children found that those who reported playing video games for three hours per day or more performed bette...
Skaftö wreck's cargo tells a tale of 15th century trade...
Research has shown that the Skaftö wreck had probably taken on cargo in Gdansk in Poland and was heading towards Belgium when it f...
Discovery could dramatically narrow search for space cr...
An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf -- the most common type of star in the universe -- appears to have no atmosphere at all. ...