Fossils from a Chinese cave spill Denisovan secrets
Teeth and bone bits from Bianfu Cave in Yunnan Province represent the richest Denisovan fossil trove outside Siberia.
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CERN shuts down the Large Hadron Collider for a major transformation
The particle smasher famously enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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Plugged-in pickles glow. Science may explain why
The scientific party trick results from tiny blasts ignited by sparks, experiments suggest.
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Shoebox-sized satellite proposal could detect hidden nuclear weapons in orbit
Neutrons from a bomb could reveal its presence from 4 kilometers away under a newly proposed verification method.
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Gluons may carry the proton’s baryon number, collision study suggests
A new study suggests gluons, not quarks, carry the proton’s baryon number. Data from nuclear collisions at RHIC matched a Y-shaped gluon junction better than the quark model, researchers report in Science, though physicists say the evidence is not yet definitive.
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Stars’ plasma spurts may be blocked by magnetic fields
Stars other than the sun are rarely seen spewing charged particles. A new experiment hints at why
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