Measuring Temperature by Counting Atoms: "Suppressed Fluctuations in Fermi Gases"

Tags: Physics

Physicists count the number of atoms to measure temperatures that are a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero.

Earth is no Longer 'One of a Kind'

Tags: Astronomy

Worlds of the approximate size of Earth appear to dominate our Milky Way.

See A Quasar Gravitationally Lens a Galaxy (for the First Time!)

Tags: Astronomy

A quasar is observed to act as a gravitational lens for the first time, which allows an estimate of the mass of the galaxy hosting the quasar.

The Biggest Star We've Ever Found!

Tags: Astronomy

A star with 265 times the mass of our Sun is discovered, the heaviest one discovered to date.

Researchers create 'lesbian' mice by deleting a single gene

Tags: Biology

Deleting the FucM gene, which encodes an enzyme called fucose mutarotase, causes masculinization of the mouse brain, so that female mice lacking the gene avoid the advances of males and try to mate with other females instead.

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