Mutant clownfish reveal how nature pushes boundaries

Snowflake clownfish

image: Clownfish with a remarkable change of snow, which interferes with the formation of normal straight, white bars. vision Again Credit: Andrew Scott / OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University) In 1999, the clown fish (Amphiprion ocellaris) is hatched in the waters of a tropical hobbyist in the UK. These clown fish … Read more

Chinese fossils reveal a huge animal explosion

Chinese fossils reveal a huge animal explosion

The fossil record of Yunnan province dates back to 546-539 million years ago Fossils show ancient sea creatures from the Ediacaran period Fossils existed before the Cambrian explosion WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) – An impressive collection of fossils from China reveals that the life of various animals in the early oceans of the Earth millions … Read more

Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2 – Nature

Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2 - Nature

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Brazil asks bank managers to fight deforestation

Manuela Andreoni

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) – After struggling for years to track and punish deforestation across the world’s largest rainforest, Brazil is recruiting new allies in the fight to protect the Amazon: bank executives. A new law that goes into effect on Wednesday requires banks to check whether applicants for rural loans have deforestation on … Read more

Inferring the absolute time constant of spherical wind wave packets – Nature Physics

Inferring the absolute time constant of spherical wind wave packets - Nature Physics

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Observation of the large-scale nonlinear Hall effect – Nature Physics

Observation of the large-scale nonlinear Hall effect - Nature Physics

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Solving quantum computing problems – Nature Electronics

Solving quantum computing problems - Nature Electronics

From scaling to error correction, many problems still need to be solved before a working quantum computer can be built, but researchers continue to find the necessary solutions. Quantum computers can be used to solve complex problems that are impossible for the most conventional computer. But building a working quantum computer is, of course, not … Read more