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Quantum Breakthrough: Scientists Find “Backdoor” to 60-Year-Old Superconducting Mystery  SciTechDaily Source link

Researchers have discovered the cause of a mysterious marine epidemic that has turned billions of sea stars into goo along the West Coast — and it’s not what they expected. Sea star wasting disease has been killing sea stars since 2013, causing catastrophic damage to ecosystems and driving the largest sea star species to the brink of extinction. Researchers thought …

Ancient Fossil Discovery Solves 500-Million-Year-Old “Squid” Mystery  SciTechDaily Source link

Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are rewriting what experts thought they knew about human evolution in this region. The tools date to about 1 million to 1.5 million years ago, which suggests that Sulawesi was occupied by an unknown human relative long before our species evolved. “These are simple, sharp-edged flakes of stone that would have …

Focusing on the aftermath of the mysterious disappearance of 17 children from the same third-grade class, comic turned horror auteur Zach Cregger’s Weapons has the same blend of horror and comedy that made the filmmaker’s Barbarian such a breakout success. Here, Cregger mines even more frightful suspense out of dark spaces and the supernaturally deteriorating bodies that linger within them. …

For years, it has been one of the biggest mysteries in marine biology: What is killing the starfish? Since 2013, billions of sea stars, an elegant ocean species commonly known as starfish that are a key part of the environment along the coast of California and other states, have been dying. The animals have suffered from a disease that causes …

Foxconn has sold the former GM factory it has owned for three years after failing to stand up any meaningful, large-scale electric vehicle production there. The pivot marks the second major failure of Foxconn to deliver on its promises to help revive U.S. manufacturing. The iPhone-maker once promised to build a giant LCD factory in Wisconsin — a project that …

Unlike typical AI research, where a model predicts outcomes or cleans up data, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta did something unusual. They trained a neural network to discover new physics. The team achieved this unique feat by feeding their AI system experimental data from a mysterious state of matter called dusty plasma, a hot, electrically charged gas filled with …

After many years and multiple doctors visits, a New York woman finally has answers to a medical mystery that drastically altered her life.  Maureen Henry, of Rockland County, said she experienced uncontrollable cognitive problems, extreme fatigue, and involuntary face and body tics, but none of her doctors were able to pinpoint the problem until now.  “Living with a mystery illness, …

A new study published in The Anatomical Record unveils the first clearly identified juvenile specimen of the extinct genus Pleurosaurus, offering rare insight into the developmental biology of a marine reptile that lived 150 million years ago in what is now southern Germany. The fossil, found in the Mörnsheim Formation near Solnhofen, bridges a longstanding gap in paleontological knowledge about …