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- Physics
Scientists see the one-way light
Nonlinear materials that allow directional discrimination of waves could be used to make components for light-based computers.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
How to hunt for extraterrestrials, plus cosmic bursts, horseshoe orbits and more in this week’s news.
- Humans
Killing fields of ancient Syria revealed
Stone corrals were used to trap whole herds of animals for mass slaughter.
- Anthropology
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Hobbit dentistry, ancient footprints and navigating gibbons in news from the recent physical anthropology meeting.
- Space
NASA pulls out of astrophysics missions
Europe is now on its own for two planned spacecraft to study black holes and gravitational waves.
- Humans
Possibly pivotal human ancestor debated
An ancient species that may have sparked the rise of humankind gets a new appraisal.
- Chemistry
Molecules/Matter & Energy
A quantum state is teleported, plus twisty light and foamy graphene in this week's news.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Breakfast may help get the lead out, plus burrowing trilobites and warmer truffles in this week's news
- Life
Complex life hit freshwater early
Tiny fossils in Scottish rock show that cells with nuclei had spread beyond the seas by a billion years ago.
- Earth
Seismologists rumble over quake clusters
Japan tremor may be part of a second grouping of great quakes since 1900, some scientists say.
- Life
Gone fishing, orangutan-style
Apes that catch fish in ponds and eat them raise the possibility that ancient hominids did the same.
- Physics
Time travel nixed in metamaterial world
A desktop universe captures essential properties of the real thing.
