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Math

Buses on Quantum Schedules

Anyone who has waited for a bus in the city has probably casually observed that, after an inordinately long wait, two or three buses often come along at the same time. The question of why such bunching seems to happen has prompted all sorts of speculation. Some claim that bus bunching is actually a rare […]

Physics

Frigid ‘dynamite’ assembles into superatom

Although it's now the fifth element to be made into the strange state of ultracold matter known as Bose-Einstein condensate, helium may prove to be the most revealing so far because of unusually high energies within the newly condensed atoms.

Health & Medicine

Veggies prevent cancer through key protein

An international team of researchers has identified a protein that helps compounds in some vegetables prevent cancer.

Astronomy

Some of galaxy’s dark matter comes to light

A new study adds to the evidence that astronomers have unveiled some of the dark matter in our galaxy and that it's pretty ordinary stuff—white dwarfs, the cold, compact embers of low-mass stars.

Earth

Thick ice scraped rock bottom in Arctic

Scuffs, scrapes, and gouges found atop undersea plateaus and ridges in the Arctic Ocean suggest that kilometer-thick ice shelves covered much of the ocean there during some previous ice ages.

Health & Medicine

Study reveals male link to preeclampsia

Men who were born of mothers who had the pregnancy complication preeclampsia are roughly twice as likely to father a child through preeclamptic pregnancy than are men who were born of mothers who had a normal pregnancy.

Tech

New nanosize detector picks through DNA

Researchers have made a device that can differentiate nearly identical DNA molecules, which might lead to sequencing at unprecedented speeds.

Anthropology

Fossil Skull Diversifies Family Tree

A 3.5-million-year-old skull found in Kenya represents a group of species in the human evolutionary family that evolved separately from australopithecines such as Lucy's kind in Ethiopia.

Earth

A quick recovery after dinosaur deaths

Evidence from 65-million-year-old sediments suggests that a single impact from space wiped out the dinosaurs and that ecosystems recovered from the trauma in only a few thousand years.

Earth

New analysis rejuvenates Himalayas

The Asian mountain range that includes some of the tallest peaks in the world turns out to be about 15 million years younger than geologists previously thought.