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Neutrino fluids in supernovae could point to new physics
Self-interactions could affect neutrino signals from exploding stars…
Fallout from nuclear weapons testing explains the ‘wild boar paradox’ of radioactive meat
Persistently high levels of caesium-137 in European wild boar are a legacy of early Cold War nuclear testing, not just Chornobyl, say researchers…
Study in astronauts could improve health in space and on Earth
Long-duration spaceflights deplete red blood cells and bone, but the body recovers with the help of fat stored in the bone marrow…
Researchers ‘tattoo’ gold nanopatterns onto live cells
New technique can print living cells and tissues with flexible arrays of gold nanodots and nanowires…
Demon quasiparticle is detected 67 years after it was first proposed
Researchers observe Pines' demon unexpectedly after bombarding exotic metal with electrons…
New 2.5-dimensional structures observed in twisted graphite hybrids
Properties of bulk graphite become inextricably mixed with those of a 2D material stacked on top of it at a slight twist angle…
Memristors make versatile artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing
Simple heterojunction combines many functions in a single component…
Can state-of-the-art linacs boost the uptake of 4D-CBCT in radiotherapy?
Researchers evaluate how the rapid gantry rotations of new linear accelerators affect the 4D cone-beam CT images used to guide radiotherapy…