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- Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6192 74 comments
- A large, international study of single women found that higher age was linked to a preference for confident and assertive partners and acceptance of partners younger than oneself. Age was also linked to parenting intentions of the ideal partner: important until age 28 and then decreasing thereafter. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7311 9 comments science
- Research found that replacing palm oil with rapeseed oil would require a four to five-fold increase in the amount of land needed, but consumers are attracted to the “free from palm oil” label, they showed more trust towards it and perceived it as superior from health and environmental perspectives https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=7201 2 comments environment
- Using chert oxygen isotope ratios, geoscientists show Earth's ancient oceans 3.85 and 2.5 billion were probably not as hot as often assumed, but were instead at much more moderate temperatures. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6930 3 comments science
- Neanderthal artists. Our ancestors decorated bones over 50,000 years ago. Discovery from Unicorn Cave in Lower Saxony sheds new light on ancestors' cognitive abilities. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6325 12 comments science
- Study investigates links between personality and vocal characteristics. Researchers discovered that a lower pitched voice is associated with individuals who are more dominant, extrovert and higher in sociosexuality (more interested in casual sex). The findings were true for women as well as for men. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6259 11 comments science
- Bronze scrap circulated as a currency in Europe before coins. Swords, axes and jewellery broken into pieces (and found in hoards) were used as cash in the late Bronze Age (1350-800 BC), and the scrap complied with a weight system. This suggests that a 'global market' existed across Western Eurasia. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6253 18 comments science
- Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel: Astrophysicist discovers new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutions, as reported in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity. This reignites debate about the possibility of faster-than-light travel based on conventional physics. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6192 2711 comments science
- Researchers develop robust approach for detecting market manipulation. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6154 5 comments science
- Scientists have developed a three-dimensional imaging technique that enables high resolution and three-dimensional representation of damaged lung tissue following severe Covid-19. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=5961 4 comments science
- Research has found that when fertile, women found all men slightly more attractive and, irrespective of their hormone cycle, flirtier men were evaluated as being more attractive for sexual relationships but less attractive for long-term relationships http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=5833 70 comments science
- 100 million years in amber: researchers discover oldest fossilised slime mould https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=5769 4 comments science
- Fairy circles are round gaps in arid grassland distributed very uniformly, only occurring in southern Africa and Australia. Various theories circulate about cause. A new study suggests that fairy circles in Australia are caused by weathering of soil by heavy rainfall, extreme heat and evaporation. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=5349 5 comments science
- A new study suggests that forest cover shouldn't below 40% or it will cause drastic losses in original bird species. Importantly, the study also shows that highly specialized bird species already start to decline significantly when the percentage of forest dips to as much as 70%. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=5313 4 comments worldnews
- A new study suggests that forest cover shouldn't below 40% or it will cause drastic losses in original bird species. Importantly, the study also shows that highly specialized bird species already start to decline significantly when the percentage of forest dips to as much as 70%. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=5313 3 comments science