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Materials Science

Permanent liquid magnets have now been created in the lab

Magnets that generate persistent magnetic fields are usually solid. But new little bar magnets have the mechanical properties of liquids.

Paleontology

A flexible bone that helps mammals chew dates back to the Jurassic Period

A flexible bone that helps with chewing may have helped give rise to the Age of Mammals, a new fossil shows.

Genetics

This gene may help worms live longer, but not healthier

Antiaging therapies may have trade-offs, research on worms suggests.

Cosmology

Scientists still can’t agree on the universe’s expansion rate

A mismatch in measurements of how fast the universe is expanding might not be real, a study hints.