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Supercomputers just solved a 50-year-old mystery about giant stars

Recent advances in supercomputing have allowed scientists to tackle a long-standing question in astronomy. Researchers have been trying to understand…

2 weeks ago

A quantum mystery that stumped scientists for decades is solved

A global research team led by Rice University physicist Pengcheng Dai has verified the presence of emergent photons and fractionalized…

4 months ago

Decades-old photosynthesis mystery finally solved

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have finally solved a long-standing…

6 months ago

A tiny chip may have solved one of clean energy’s biggest problems

For decades, researchers around the world have searched for alternatives to iridium, an extremely rare, incredibly expensive metal used in…

7 months ago

Scientists just recreated the Universe’s first molecule and solved a 13-billion-year-old puzzle

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high temperatures…

8 months ago

Quantum tunneling mystery solved after 100 years—and it involves a surprise collision

Recently, Professor Dong Eon Kim from POSTECH's Department of Physics and Max Planck Korea-POSTECH Initiative and his research team have…

9 months ago

Mystery of ‘very odd’ elasmosaur finally solved: fiercely predatory marine reptile is new species

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs -- some of the most famous in North America -- have just been formally…

11 months ago

Marine mystery solved: How anemonefish avoid stings from their sea anemone hosts

The clownfish-anemone living arrangement is one of the most widely recognized examples of symbiosis. Researchers have made a breakthrough in…

1 year ago

Jos Buttler conundrum still to be solved as England white-ball reset makes first strides

Even after Sunday's fifth ODI had been called off, the rain kept coming. As Australia's victorious squad gathered in the…

2 years ago

Mystery solved: The oldest fossil reptile from the alps is an historical forgery

A 280-million-year-old fossil that has baffled researchers for decades has been shown to be, in part, a forgery following new…

2 years ago