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IceCube: how the South Pole became a neutrino detector
Almost 100 holes melted near the South Pole make up the largest neutrino detector ever built, and a founding leader of the collaboration is to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Thorium nuclear clock ticks steadily for 24 hours
A Vienna-led team kept a thorium clock's laser steady for more than a day with no conventional atomic clock holding it in place.
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Kyoto researcher: olive oil first cut glucose rise in mice
In mice, olive oil given 15 minutes before glucose led to a smaller early blood sugar rise than the same oil given afterward, ScienceDaily reports.
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POLO pathway: a hidden drain at the back of the eye
A Canadian team reports a lymphatic drainage route behind the retina, traced so far in mice, that may clear waste from the eye.
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Cornelis van Zuilen's 110-object Messier mosaic
A Dutch astrophotographer spent 352 hours and 13 minutes photographing all 110 objects in the Messier catalog, many of them from his balcony in the Netherlands.
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Physics
Thorium nuclear clock ticks steadily for 24 hours
A Vienna-led team kept a thorium clock's laser steady for more than a day with no conventional atomic clock holding it in place.
Astronomy
IceCube: how the South Pole became a neutrino detector
Almost 100 holes melted near the South Pole make up the largest neutrino detector ever built, and a founding leader of the collaboration is to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Explainers
Kyoto researcher: olive oil first cut glucose rise in mice
In mice, olive oil given 15 minutes before glucose led to a smaller early blood sugar rise than the same oil given afterward, ScienceDaily reports.
Explainers
POLO pathway: a hidden drain at the back of the eye
A Canadian team reports a lymphatic drainage route behind the retina, traced so far in mice, that may clear waste from the eye.
Astronomy
Cornelis van Zuilen's 110-object Messier mosaic
A Dutch astrophotographer spent 352 hours and 13 minutes photographing all 110 objects in the Messier catalog, many of them from his balcony in the Netherlands.
Explainers
Tutankhamun's tomb: the Nefertiti theory, testable at last
Scientific American reports that radar and gravity surveys hint at concealed spaces beyond Tutankhamun's burial chamber, but the evidence stops well short of a discovery.