According to members of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) in the journal Science, the alpine flora of the Hengduan Mountains has existed continuously for much longer than any other flora on Earth.
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56% information is forgotten within an hour if there is no connection to prior knowledge, according to a recent study published in Neuron.
The 1880 study by psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus replicated in recent research…
This striking bubble of gas, known as NGC 2899, appears to float and flutter across the sky in this new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
This object has never before been photographed in such surprising detail…
Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in Alzheimer's research, demonstrating what they describe as the first gene therapy-based approach to treating advanced forms of the disease.
Through experiment…
Pyrite, iron disulfide, is known as fool's gold. The problem with pyrite for treasure hunters is that it shines even more golden than real gold. That Phoenician shine is what has caught…
Non-violent protests are twice as likely to be successful as armed conflicts, and only if a minimum of 3.5% of the population participates will the desired change be achieved.
The power of the people, then, can be…
The best place on Earth to install a telescope has been identified by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The place in question is the highest area of the Antarctic plateau.
Dome A is the name of the point…
A research team from the Japan Agency for Marine and Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) and the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography has collected samples of seafloor microbes up to…
Cancer occurs when cells begin to grow uncontrollably. Cancer alone kills 10 million people worldwide. Only if tobacco disappeared from the world, total cancer mortality would be reduced by 20 %: no…
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, scientists at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom), were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 "for their fundamental experiments on the two-dimensional material graphene."
Des…