Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
A penny and your thoughts? Work surveillance leads to a decline in labor share, a productivity slowdown, and a fatigued workforce …
Soft yet hardy, many animal body parts are made from biological hydrogels. What gives these materials their extreme physical properties? …
The quantum teleportation of electron spin qubits is crucial for quantum-information transfer. This had not been achieved, until 2020 …
No open-and-shut case: The paradigm of open vs. closed circulatory systems hides the complexity of invertebrate cardiovascular systems …
Crumbs on Uranus? Quantum mechanics and optical interferometry hold the keys to ever sharper views of the cosmos …
Automation will change employment, that much is sure. But is this the end of the world of work, or are we just facing the same old structural change? …
AI pattern recognition applied to the Dead Sea Scrolls suggests that they were transcribed by multiple scribes who attempted to mimic a particular style …
Many roads lead to Rome? The largest-brained mammals achieved large relative brain sizes by highly divergent paths …
Within one of the oldest monumental building traditions, archaeologists find evidence for a Neolithic cattle cult in the Arabian Peninsula …
Using magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic ages, researchers produce a drastically revised chronology of the Wonderwerk Cave …
Is Homo sapiens the result of some adventurous monkeys crossing the ocean on drift wood? Read here the rime of the primate mariner …
Relieved of its duties: Scientists find that it is less the spleen, and more the liver, that produces the pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor …
It is widely accepted that humans and other animals instinctually understand numbers. But what kinds of numbers? …
Maps of life. The Vertebrate Genomes Project will generate complete reference genomes for all of the roughly 70,000 extant vertebrate species …
Powers and indices: Index providers are becoming gatekeepers that exert de facto regulatory power, and affect countries’ economic policies …
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