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Two species of worms are the same even after 275 million years of evolution

One of the basic things evolution has taught us is that as time goes by, the body shapes of living beings tend to change. However, this is not the case with two species of annelid...

A new class of superlight planets have been discovered

Gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn have a much lower density than Earth (Saturn could even float in a huge bathtub) but now astronomers have discovered what can be called a new class of even...

Method for thawing surfaces in seconds is developed by scientists

A much more efficient method, at least according to the press release, to remove ice from the surface, was developed by a group of researchers at the University of Illinois from Urbana-Champaign and Kyushu University. This...

Scientists discover that abundant minerals are proton conductors

A group of researchers from the University of Manchester has discovered that mica's, a group of phyllosilicate minerals that are characterized by a certain layered structure, are excellent conductors of protons. According to the press release...

Reactor converts carbon dioxide into liquid fuel

A catalytic reactor that uses renewable electricity to produce pure liquid fuels was developed by the chemical and biomolecular engineer Haotian Wang. This new catalyst uses carbon dioxide as a real raw material to produce...

New optical instrument measures a smaller distance that can ever be measured directly

A new nanometre-scale distance measurement system, a kind of nanometric "optical ruler," was developed by a research group at the Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore (NTU). Currently there is a limit, called a "diffraction limit,"...