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Astronomy

Have scientists seen planets in the making?

Astronomers may finally have glimpsed a key step in the construction of a planet.

Earth

Even low lead in kids has a high IQ cost

Lead can damage a young child's ability to learn and reason at exposures far lower than the limit deemed acceptable by the U.S. government.

Physics

New probe reveals unfamiliar inner proton

Researchers taking one of the closest looks yet into the intact proton have found an unexpectedly complex interior electromagnetic environment.

Health & Medicine

Epileptic seizures may be predictable

Patterns of mild electrical disturbance in the brains of epilepsy patients appear to foreshadow a seizure hours before its onset.

Materials Science

Inorganic tubes get smaller than ever

Researchers have created the smallest stable, freestanding inorganic nanotubes yet.

Chemistry

Rocks May Have Given a Hand to Life

In a new twist to the puzzle of how life developed from only left-handed amino acids, researchers have found that the common mineral calcite can segregate the molecules into their left-handed and right-handed varieties.

Materials Science

Novel nanotubes are now made-to-order

Researchers have made nanotubes with specific sizes and traits by designing molecules that self-assemble.

Tech

Electromagnetism acts oddly in device

Without breaking any physical laws, a novel, fiberglass-copper structure affects microwaves so strangely that a beam of radiation passing through it bends at an angle opposite from what it get bent at an angle opposite from what it would have exiting any other known material.

Tech

Stuff gets stiffed by unstiff inserts

In an odd twist, material that is so extremely yielding that it is said to have negative stiffness will make already stiff materials even stiffer when it's blended into them.