Researchers confirmed a long-standing theory that there was water ice on the moon, according to a pair of studies published in Nature Astronomy. While water on the moon has been suspected for several decades, and multiple lunar missions have gathered data that pointed to its presence, definitive proof had …
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While the cause of Alzheimer’s disease remains a mystery, amyloid plaques that are toxic to brain cells are known indicators of the disease. A team of researchers from Australia and Iceland has found that these plaques start in the same place and spread in the same way in the brains …
Read More »Archaeologists Confirm Site of Genghis Khan’s Winter Base Camp
Archaeologists Confirm Site of Genghis Khan’s Winter Base Camp Avraga, a Mongol Empire site located in an open steppe environment along the Avraga River in east-central Mongolia, was the winter base camp (ordū) of Genghis Khan, according to new research from the Australian National University and the Mongolian Institute of …
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Researchers Confirm Existence of Elusive Phase of Liquid Crystals A team of scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Utah has confirmed the existence of a ferroelectric nematic phase of liquid crystal first proposed more than 100 years ago. View of a new phase of liquid …
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Read More »Teardowns confirm Nintendo Switch is built on standard Tegra X1 processor
Ever since Nintendo announced the Switch, it’s been cagey about the exact details of the platform. That’s nothing new for the company, which frequently goes out of its way to obfuscate its own hardware’s capabilities. But there’s been some question as to whether the Switch contained a bog standard Tegra …
Read More »FCC Republicans confirm they’ll act to topple net neutrality as quickly as possible
Net neutrality is firmly on the chopping block in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election. The two Republican members of the FCC, Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly, have made this clear in a letter sent to small ISPs with less than 100,000 subscribers, in which they vow to revisit both …
Read More »Theoretical Physicists Confirm Possible Discovery of Nature’s Fifth Fundamental Force
Recent findings by a team of experimental nuclear physicists in Hungary indicating the possible discovery of a new subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth force of nature, according to a team of theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine. The discovery of a possible fifth force of …
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