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 / Earlier evidence of human rituals and innovation found in ancient rocks
The Kalahari is a huge expanse of desert in southern Africa, stretching across Botswana and into the northernmost part of South Africa's Northern Cape province.
Dialog / Are we more closely related to starfish or insects? Study questions 100 years of consensus
How humans evolved from the very first animals over the last 600 million years is an endlessly fascinating question. When piecing together the many steps leading from our first simple animal ancestor to modern Homo sapiens, ...
Dialog / New physics at the Large Hadron Collider? Scientists are excited, but it's too soon to be sure
Last week, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland announced they might have discovered a brand new force of nature. Or, to be precise, they unveiled "new results which, if confirmed, would suggest hints of ...
Dialog / We've imaged a black hole's magnetic field for the first time—here's what it reveals
There was a lot of excitement when the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration showed the world the first ever image of a black hole back in April 2019. Weighing in at 6.5 billion times the mass of our Sun, this supermassive ...
Dialog / Previously thought to be science fiction, a planet in a triple-star system has been discovered
KOI-5Ab is a newly discovered planet in a triple-star system. It is a great example of the kind of astonishing discoveries that result from co-operation between large teams of astronomers using different types of telescopes ...
Dialog / Evolutionary study suggests prehistoric human fossils 'hiding in plain sight' in Southeast Asia
Island Southeast Asia has one of the largest and most intriguing hominin fossil records in the world. But our new research suggests there is another prehistoric human species waiting to be discovered in this region: a group ...
Dialog / Evidence of new physics at CERN? Why we're cautiously optimistic about our new findings
When CERN's gargantuan accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), fired up ten years ago, hopes abounded that new particles would soon be discovered that could help us unravel physics' deepest mysteries. Dark matter, microscopic ...
Dialog / When our evolutionary ancestors first crawled onto land, their brains only half-filled their skulls
Most of us would recognize a human brain, but what about the brain of a frog or fish? Given the vast diversity of life on Earth, there are some weird and wonderful brains out there.
Dialog / Ancient undersea middens offer clues about life before rising seas engulfed the coast
The world's oceans hold their secrets close, including clues about how people lived tens of thousands of years ago.
Dialog / Meteorite hunters: How we found the first bit of UK space rock in over 30 years
Wednesday 3 March started just like every other day in 2021. We were working from home. But by mid-afternoon, our colleague Luke had told us to pack our bags and fill our petrol tanks, just in case we got the OK to go on ...
Dialog / Rote intercessory prayer does not increase longevity (probably)
Studying the efficacy of prayer is a sensitive topic: Depending on where you come from, you can either consider it offensive even to try to apply a scientific method to a spiritual process, or you can believe it is a waste ...
Dialog / Researchers obtain new valuable insights on nanoscale friction via AI-based predictive model
Friction has been an ever-lasting research problem, ever since the fundamental experimental observations of Leonardo Da Vinci, through the empirical laws postulated by Amontons and Couloumb and until today, when we still ...