Stardust and Radiation Could Lead to Complex Biomolecule Forms
New research offers evidence that humans — and the rest of life on Earth — may have been able to form with the right combination…
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Astronomers Continue to Unravel the Mystery of the Universe’s Missing Matter
Webb Space Telescope Will Capture Light From First Generation Stars
New Implantable Device Furnishes Islet Cells With Their Own Supply of Oxygen
Scientists Gain New Insight Into the Development of Pulmonary Hypertension
Suomi NPP Satellite Views Aurora Borealis Over North America
New Fundamental Law Stipulates the Evolution of Galaxy Clusters
High Immune Function Linked to Stunted Childhood Growth
Scientists Reveal New Mechanism of Radio Emission in Neutron Stars
Physicists Discover Way to “Switch” Between the Different States of Matter
An international team of physicists has managed for the first time to experimentally observe a transition between two different states of matter: a propagating polariton-soliton…
Machine-Learning System Replicates Human Auditory Behavior, Predicts Brain Responses
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks…
Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole May Have ‘Wandering’ Siblings
Astronomers are beginning to understand what happens when black holes get the urge to roam the Milky Way. Typically, a supermassive black hole (SMBH) exists…
Physicists Complete First End-to-End Quantum Data Transmission Done on Demand
Researchers from Yale University have completed the first end-to-end quantum data transmission ever done on demand using novel “pitch-and-catch” technologies. Yale’s latest work expanding the…
Cassini Reveals the Subtle Colors of Saturn’s Rings
Saturn’s rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on August 22, 2009, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The particles that make up the rings…
Scientists Detect Hydrogen Sulfide in the Cloud Tops of Uranus
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus – as has been long debated,…
Oldest Peace Treaty in the World Disproves a Widespread Notion
Today’s peace symbols go back to antiquity – According to archaeologists, peace images were widespread, especially during wars, despite glorification of war – Oldest peace…
‘Deep Learning’ Algorithm Brings New Tools to Astronomy
A ‘deep learning’ algorithm trained on images from cosmological simulations has been surprisingly successful at classifying real galaxies in Hubble images. A machine learning method…
The Culturally Co-opted Brain: How Reading Changes the Way We Think
From a research perspective, reading and writing is a fascinating phenomenon. After all, the first writing systems date back less than 6,000 years – the…