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Bacteria choose to swarm based on what happened to their great-grandmothers.

Paleontologists have made a startling discovery in South Africa which suggests that it was not humans who created the world’s oldest known burial site.

The researchers have found remains of small-brained distant relatives of humans in the burial site, which has hinted at them being the creators. These mammals were known to be incapable of complex behaviour.

The researchers, headed by renowned paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, in June announced that several specimens of Homo naledi have been discovered by them. These remains of Stone Age hominids, who were good at tree-climbing, were found buried around 30 meters (100 feet) underground in a cave system inside the Cradle of Humankind, which is a designated UNESCO world heritage site close to Johannesburg.

Integer linear programming can help find the answer to a variety of real-world problems. Now researchers have found a much faster way to do it.

New approach may increase the effectiveness of T-cell-based immunotherapy treatments against solid tumors.

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Electronic transport measurements of the anomalous Hall effect can probe properties of a frustrated kagome spin ice that are hidden from conventional thermodynamic and magnetic probes.

In order to complete the transition to the era of large-scale integration, silicon photonics will have to overcome several challenges. Here, the authors outline what these challenges are and what it will take to tackle them.

Using ideas drawn from celestial mechanics, a US research team shows how light can be channeled through a clear, uniform dielectric—without waveguides or total internal reflection.

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