New ScienceCast Video – Jellyfish Flames on the ISS
A new four minute ScienceCast video looks at the lifelike behavior and underlying physics of flames on the International Space Station. ScienceCasts: Jellyfish Flame on…
A new four minute ScienceCast video looks at the lifelike behavior and underlying physics of flames on the International Space Station. ScienceCasts: Jellyfish Flame on…
Using an altitude-dependent photochemical model with the enhanced lower boundary conditions necessary to carefully explore abiotic oxygen and ozone production on lifeless planets with a…
A new study from Yale University details the prevalence of hadrosaur skin among all known dinosaur skin fossils, revealing that hadrosaur skin is 31 times…
New research shows that brain structure may predict risky behavior, revealing that those with a larger volume in a particular part of the parietal cortex…
Biophysicists detail how they engineered synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms, successfully implementing a minimalistic model of the cell that can…
A newly published study from University of Cambridge shows that food production is a main driver of biodiversity loss and a large contributor to climate…
A team of scientists at Drexel University have unveiled a new supermassive dinosaur species discovered between 2005 and 2009. Weighing in at nearly 65 tons…
Materials Scientists at MIT have begun to explore the effects of patterned surfaces deep within materials, revealing that control of internal patterns can lead to…
In a new study, chimpanzees outplay humans in a two-player game, suggesting that chimps may have a superior memory and strategy when it comes to…
A new and more precise recalculation of the normal background extinction rate reveals that the rate of extinction in the human era is as much…
Neuroscientists from MIT have identified the brain circuit that controls how memories become linked with positive or negative emotions, revealing that they could reverse the…
Neuroscientists from Brown University show that faint sensations can be made more vivid by triggering a brain rhythm that appears to shift sensory attention in…
A team of scientists from the Department of Neurogenetics at the Max Planck Institute and University Medical Center Göttingen has discovered a new treatment approach…
By using small organic molecules that absorb specific nonvisible wavelengths of sunlight, researchers at Michigan State University have developed a transparent luminescent solar concentrator that…
Scientists at MIT precisely dated the rocks in which the earliest dinosaur fossils were discovered in the southwestern United States, raising questions about when dinosaurs…
In a newly published study, University of Pittsburgh researchers report an experimental approach to the formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching. Materials…
A new study details how researchers from the Max Planck Institute and EMPA succeeded in “growing” single-wall carbon nanotubes with a single predefined structure for…
A newly published study demonstrated that weak sequential electromagnetic pulses on mice can shift abnormal neural connections toward their correct locations in the brain. Researchers…