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Quantum tunneling pushes the limits of self-powered sensors

[ad_1] Shantanu Chakrabartty’s laboratory has worked to create sensors that can operate with the least amount of energy. His lab has been so successful in building smaller, more efficient sensors, that they have encountered an obstacle in the form of a fundamental law of physics. Sometimes, however, when you encounter …

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The skull sheds light on human evolution

[ad_1] Paleoanthropologists have discovered a two-million-year-old adult hominid skull – the first known and best-preserved specimen of Paranthropus robustus ever found. Researchers from the Department of Archeology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, led the excavation, reconstruction and analysis of the rare male fossil from the main Drimolen quarry …

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