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Best of Last Week – A less crowded universe, antibiotics altering child...

(Phys.org)—It was a pretty big week for space science as researchers at Vanderbilt University unveiled a new model of cosmic stickiness that favors a "Big Rip" demise of the universe—they have found a...

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Best of Last Week–Magnetic devils staircase, a skinlike display and conscious...

(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week in physics as an international team of researchers found that quantum coherence and quantum entanglement are two sides of the same coin—they found a way to show...

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Group calls for more transparency in science research, announces guidelines

An international group of academic leaders, journal editors and funding-agency representatives and disciplinary leaders, including Rick Wilson, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair of Political Science and...

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Top scientists call for improved incentives to ensure research integrity

Scientific controversies, from problems replicating results - such as with the now debunked association between autism and MMR vaccines - to researcher misconduct and sensationalism, have led to...

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Best of Last Week – Renewable energy from evaporating water, left-handed...

(Phys.org)—It was a good week for new technology as a team of researchers at Columbia University announced a way to get renewable energy from evaporating water—they have come up with two devices, one a...

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Best of Last Week—New violations of local realism, a computer that runs on...

(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week for physics as a combined team of researchers from China and Singapore demonstrated new violations of local realism—they have shown that all mixed entangled states...

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Five companies control more than half of academic publishing

A study at the University of Montreal shows that the market share of the five largest research publishing houses reached 50% in 2006, rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30% in 1996 and...

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Denied under Nazis, 102-year-old Jewish woman gets doctorate

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport wasn't allowed to defend her doctoral thesis in 1938 under the Nazis because she was part-Jewish. Nearly eight decades later, she became Germany's oldest recipient of a...

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Best of Last Week – Light's pushing pressure, the riddle of Somerton Man and...

(Phys.org)—It was a very good week for physics as a team of researchers from China and Israel made the first observation of the pushing pressure of light—they were able to show the surface of a liquid...

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After years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a...

(Phys.org)—This is the second part of a two-part story about the forensic investigation of the Somerton Man. Read "Part 1: History and Code" here.

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After years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a...

(Phys.org)—As one of Australia's most infamous cold case mysteries, the enigma of the Somerton Man deals with a haunting situation: a man is found dead on a beach, and no one steps forward to identify...

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Best of Last Week–Confirming quantum weirdness, revolutionary bionic lens and...

(Phys.org)—It was a an interesting week for physics as a team with the Australian National University conducted an experiment that confirmed quantum theory weirdness—they carried out John Wheeler's...

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Best of Last Week—Increasing antihydrogen production, converting waste heat...

(Phys.org)—It was another good week for physics as a team of researchers found some ways to increase antihydrogen production—having more of the stuff could lead to better experiments to learn more...

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Best of Last Week – Study backs Standard Model, splitting an electron and...

(Phys.org)—It was a pretty big week for physics as a team of researchers working at CERN's LHC reported that a three-decade long quest backs physics' Standard Model. They detected a revealing change in...

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Best of Last Week – A quantum shortcut, a ten-engine plane and cell phones...

(Phys.org)—Once again, it was a good week for physics as a team of researchers found a quantum shortcut that could speed up many quantum technologies—they devised a new method for preparing quantum...

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Best of Last Week – Pondering the universe as hologram, Tesla's home battery...

(Phys.org)—It was a big week for physics as researchers at Aalto University, together with a team from Amherst College, have observed for the first time, a point-like monopole in a quantum field...

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Short science abstracts that avoid jargon and hype are cited less, study shows

When writing the abstracts for journal articles, most scientists receive similar advice: keep it short, dry, and simple. But a new analysis by University of Chicago researchers of over one million...

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Collin Burns in 5.253 seconds sets Rubik's Cube time record (w/ Video)

Collin Burns took part in a Rubik's Cube competition at a high school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, over the weekend. The event is recognized as an official World Cube Association competition. He solved...

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Best of Last Week–Variance of gravitational constant, 50 years of Moore's Law...

It was an interesting week in physics as researchers delved into the question of why the measurements of the gravitational constant vary so much. The latest theory suggests that it is not likely...

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Best of Last Week – Dark matter maybe not so dark, chance of asteroid strike...

(Phys.org)—It was an interesting week for physics as a multinational team of researchers found potential signs of "interacting" dark matter that suggested the mysterious material is not completely dark...

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