Science X Dialog
Science X Dialog is where researchers can share news and information about their own published journal articles.
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Dialog / Clocks that tell time more accurately use more energy, new research reveals
Clocks pervade our lives, from the cellular clocks inside our bodies to the atomic clocks that underlie satellite navigation.
Dialog / Bell's theorem refuted
Einstein said that the wave function does not describe the physical state of a single object, but the possible states of an ensemble. He also said that quantum mechanics is not complete; there must be hidden variables. Not ...
Dialog / We found a secret history of megadroughts written in tree rings. The wheatbelt's future may be drier than we thought
Drought over the last two decades has dealt a heavy blow to the wheatbelt of Western Australia, the country's most productive grain-growing region. Since 2000, winter rainfall has plummeted by almost 20% and shifted grain-growing ...
Dialog / SETI: microbes may already be communicating with alien species – new research
Are we alone in the universe? The famous SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) program has been trying to answer this question since 1959. American astronomer Carl Sagan, and many others, believed that other human-like ...
Dialog / DNA 'Lite-Brite' is a promising way to archive data for decades or longer
We and our colleagues have developed a way to store data using pegs and pegboards made out of DNA and retrieving the data with a microscope—a molecular version of the Lite-Brite toy. Our prototype stores information in ...
Dialog / A metropolis in medieval Cambodia: How many people lived in the Angkor Empire over time
How big were the world's ancient cities? At its height, the world's first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population of about a quarter of ...
Dialog / Cancer: How one type of RNA could be the future of treatment
Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things. So, in order to treat or cure almost any disease or condition—including cancer—you first need to have a fundamental understanding of cell biology.
Dialog / How we discovered the oldest human burial in Africa – and what it tells us about our ancestors
How did human uniqueness first evolve among our ancestors, setting us apart from other animals? That is a question many archaeologists are grappling with by investigating early records of art, language, food preparation, ...
Dialog / Early humans used fire to permanently change the landscape tens of thousands of years ago in Stone Age Africa
Fields of rust-colored soil, spindly cassava, small farms and villages dot the landscape. Dust and smoke blur the mountains visible beyond massive Lake Malawi. Here in tropical Africa, you can't escape the signs of human ...
Dialog / Humans weren't to blame for the extinction of prehistoric island-dwelling animals
From the moas of New Zealand to the dodos of Mauritius, humans have hunted many island-dwelling species to extinction in the relatively recent past. But our research reveals humans haven't always necessarily been agents of ...
Dialog / We're all ingesting microplastics at home—here are some tips to reduce your risk
Australians are eating and inhaling significant numbers of tiny plastics at home, our new research shows.
Dialog / Warp drives: Physicists give chances of faster-than-light space travel a boost
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25 light-years away, or about 25 trillion miles (40 trillion km). The fastest ever spacecraft, the now- in-space Parker Solar Probe will reach a top speed of 450,000 ...