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Francesco de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, lay feverish at his family’s villa in October 1587 as his wife, Bianca Cappello, weakened beside him. Outside, stagnant water pooled across the surrounding rice fields and low wetlands. The landscape concealed one possible killer — malaria. But when the couple died on consecutive days, Tuscany began whispering…

The use of ultrathin 2D semiconductor materials promises to shrink transistors down to the nanometre scale. However, to achieve a substantial increase in the number of these transistors that can fit on a chip, it is necessary to scale down the metallic contacts that link them to external circuitry. So far, it has not been…

Scientists have trained an inanimate lump of goo to play the video game Pong. As reported in New Scientist and described in a research paper from scientists at the University of Reading, researchers took a lump of hydrogel and ran an electric current through it while hooked up to a computer that could play Pong….

G189.6+3.3, a faint supernova remnant, appears as a mottled cloud of blues, greens and magentas, overlapping the well-known Jellyfish Nebula (IC 443; just right of center) in a multi-wavelength composite that strips away IC 443’s bright emission to reveal its neighbor. A filament of gas arcing between the two remnants (center; shown in violet) marks…

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