Worker bees are the first line of defense when it comes to removing contamination in honeybee colonies, but a queen has her ways, too. A honeybee queen facing chronic exposure to pesticides will take up…
Rare phenomenon observed by ATLAS features the LHC…
During the International Conference on High-Energy Physics (ICHEP 2020), the ATLAS collaboration presented the first observation of photon collisions producing pairs of W bosons, elementary particles that carry the weak force, one of the four…
Can a quantum strategy help bring down the…
Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack. Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In some versions of the game blackjack, one way to win against…
Plasma therapy cures critically ill COVID-19 patient in…
Kathmandu (Xinhua) -- A 60-year-old patient of COVID-19 has recovered from the critical stage of the disease after being treated with the plasma therapy, the first time in the Himalayan country, a doctor involved in…
Study sheds light on the evolution of the…
Geological evidence suggests the known dinosaur groups diverged early on, supporting the traditional dinosaur family tree Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The classic dinosaur family tree has two subdivisions of early dinosaurs at…