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Scientists Just Found a Third Type of Magnetism, And It Could Change Electronics
For more than a century, physicists largely treated magnetism as a two-option system. Materials either had their tiny magnetic moments lined up like a conventional magnet, or those moments pointed in opposite directions and cancelled each other out. Then one stubborn piece of metal began behaving as though the rules had left something important out.…
Scientists Found Something Surprisingly Powerful About Human Touch
A simple touch can do something inside the brain that scientists have struggled to replicate with all kinds of modern interventions. Researchers studying the effects of physical contact have found evidence that being touched by another person can reduce the brain’s response to stress, while a huge review of human studies found measurable benefits for…
Physicists Have Been Trying to Remove Time From the Universe
For centuries, time has seemed like the one thing nobody could argue with. Clocks move forward, people grow older, stars form and disappear, and every event appears to happen somewhere between a past and a future. But when physicists tried to write an equation capable of describing the entire universe, they ran into a bizarre…
Scientists Identify 36 Genes Linked To OCD And Tourette Syndrome
For 20 years, researchers collected DNA from families affected by obsessive-compulsive disorder and chronic tic disorders without having the technology to fully read what those samples contained. Now, a new study has identified 36 large-effect risk genes linked to OCD and tic disorders, dramatically expanding a genetic map that previously contained only four confirmed genes.…
Scientists Are Testing Old Drugs For Their Anti Ageing Potential
A cheap diabetes pill, an old transplant drug, and compounds found in grape seeds are becoming unlikely stars of ageing research. None has been proven to make healthy humans live longer, but researchers are investigating whether existing drugs could eventually help people spend fewer of their later years dealing with age-related disease. The idea sounds…
Scientists Created A Robot Finger Covered In Living Human Skin
A robotic finger covered in real human skin sounds like something lifted from a science-fiction film, but researchers in Japan have actually built one in a laboratory. The strange-looking creation can bend with its mechanical joints, develop natural-looking wrinkles and even repair damaged tissue with the help of a collagen graft. The project, led by…
NASA Just Captured An Incredible Look At A Black Hole Jet Moving Near Light Speed
Something extraordinary is happening 55 million light-years from Earth, where a supermassive black hole is blasting a gigantic stream of matter and energy into space at speeds approaching the speed of light. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has now produced its most detailed X-ray view yet of this enormous jet, revealing structures that appear to move…
The Science Behind Human Monogamy Is More Complicated Than You Think
For generations, humans have treated lifelong sexual exclusivity as the natural model for relationships. Then scientists started checking what nature actually does, and the results turned out to be far less tidy than the traditional picture suggests. Humans appear unusually committed to pair bonding compared with most mammals, yet strict sexual monogamy is another question…
Scientists Ran a Quantum Experiment That Could Change What We Mean By Reality
For centuries, there has been one assumption almost nobody has had reason to question: if two people witness the same event, they should be able to agree on what happened. A bizarre quantum experiment involving six photons has now pushed that everyday certainty into uncomfortable territory, suggesting that two observers can arrive at facts that…
The Surprising Way Children Picture Scientists Today
For years, researchers asked children to draw a scientist and received almost the same answer every time: a man in a lab coat, often wearing glasses and surrounded by beakers. Now, after decades of research, that picture is changing, with children drawing women scientists far more often than they once did. The shift offers a…