MIT Neuroscientists Challenge Standard Model of Memory Consolidation
New research from MIT reveals that memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and the long-term storage location in the brain’s cortex. When we visit…
New research from MIT reveals that memories are formed simultaneously in the hippocampus and the long-term storage location in the brain’s cortex. When we visit…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft reveals “beauty and the beast” in a recent flyby of Jupiter. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft uses the JunoCam imager to highlight features on…
Discovered nearly three years ago, the relatively large near-Earth asteroid 2014 JO25 is set to fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance…
As Jupiter made its nearest approach to Earth in a year, a distance of 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) away, Hubble took advantage and…
New research from scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology shows how the brain extracts this essential motion information, revealing the cells that enable…
New observations from NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft reveal the hydrogen content of Ceres’ surface and link the temporary atmosphere to solar activity. Astronomers have long thought…
New research from Yale University reveals four genes linked to cystic diseases of the liver and kidney. These findings provide a more complete definition of…
A team of scientists at MIT has developed a microfluidic device that isolates plasma cells from blood rather than from bone marrow. The new technique…
Astrophysicists have been hard at work trying to determine how black holes can come together and merge. A newly published study from the University of…
HiRISE continues to provide astronomers with interesting and revealing images of the Martian surface. The latest image is no different. This new image from the…
Using the Event Horizon Telescope project, observatories around the world are ready to begin measurements of the black hole at the center of the Milky…
By using an adhesive-like layer of nickel to peel graphene from silicon carbide, engineers at MIT have developed a technique to produce highly conductive wrinkle-free…
The New Horizons Spacecraft, traveling at 32,000 miles (51,500 kilometers) per hour, has reached the halfway point between Pluto and its new Kuiper Belt object…
Although only a sliver of Saturn’s sunlit face is visible in this new Cassini image, the mighty gas giant planet still dominates the view. From…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the new images of the three solar flares. The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3,…
Astronomers have detected the presence of two planets in formation around the young star HD 169142, which is about 470 light-years away. The two planets…
This Hubble image of the week is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for…
Astronomers have begun a program to model the stellar winds and magnetic field for active M-dwarf stars, finding that the pressure of the stellar wind…