Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
8D supergravity theories with 𝔤2 gauge symmetry are in the Swampland, home of those low-energy theories incompatible with string theory …
Big city lost, big city found. An unearthed Egyptian metropolis is “the most important discovery” since the tomb of Tutankhamun …
A paper links cognitive motor training games with improved cognitive performance in dementia patients, making the case for playtime …
A very good boy. Archaeologists uncover the oldest recorded domestic dogs of the Arabian Peninsula …
It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it. A new CRISPR technique allows a change of gene expression, without modifying the underlying DNA …
Me fell from stupid tree? A study of Homo erectus skulls indicates that early human brains weren’t as developed as once thought …
Gar fish look good. Research reveals that the eye-to-brain nerve network existed in fish 450 million years ago …
Strange bedfellows: Early Europeans interbred with Neanderthals later than thought, after the genome study of a 40,000-year-old Romanian individual …
Writers of physics rule books breathe sigh of relief as NASA’s EmDrive is demonstrated to have no thrust. Conservation of momentum holds …
Do octopuses dream of underwater sheep? The eight-legged gardeners display similar sleep patterns to humans, despite 500 million years of evolutionary distance …
Galaxy-brain personified, we humans are big thinkers. But why is our organ so much bigger than that of our primate ancestors? A molecular switch bears answers …
A long way from home … New images illuminate the process of how a black hole projects powerful jets of matter up to 5,000 light-years away from its galaxy …
These days, you can’t see the forest for the disease. Deforestation gives space for infection-ridden pests to flourish …
Excuses for tardiness are diminishing. With advances in measuring the accuracy of atomic clocks, scientists are one step closer to redefining the second …
The recipe called for more muons! New results hold clues as to the future of particle physics, beyond the Standard Model. Out with the old …
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