MIT Neuroscientists Identify Brain Circuit in the Hippocampus That Encodes Timing of Events
Findings suggest this hippocampal circuit helps us to maintain our timeline of memories. When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of…
Findings suggest this hippocampal circuit helps us to maintain our timeline of memories. When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of…
Astronomers now have evidence from two X-ray telescopes (Chandra and NuSTAR) for a key component of a famous supernova remnant. Supernova 1987A was discovered on…
Reducing internal losses could pave the way to low-cost perovskite-based photovoltaics that match silicon cells’ output. Perovskites are a leading candidate for eventually replacing silicon…
The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, is the electromagnetic echo of the Big Bang, radiation that has been traveling through space and time since the…
Surprise in solid-state physics: The Hall effect, which normally requires magnetic fields, can also be generated in a completely different way – with extreme strength….
Comet Comes in from the Cold and Finds an Off-Ramp on Its Sunward Journey Long road trips can be tedious and boring. That’s why many…
A team of researchers studying the effectiveness of different types of face masks has found that in order to provide the best protection against COVID-19,…
Phobos and Deimos are the remains of a larger Martian moon that was disrupted between 1 and 2.7 billion years ago, say researchers from the…
Frontera, Anton 2 supercomputers simulate holistic model of SARS-CoV-2 virion. The COVID-19 virus holds some mysteries. Scientists remain in the dark on aspects of how…
How a single cell slime mold makes smart decisions without a central nervous system. Having a memory of past events enables us to make smarter…
Vitamin B6 may help calm cytokine storms and unclog blood clots linked to COVID-19’s lethality. But research on it is lacking. A Hiroshima University professor…
In a first step towards uncovering the Moon’s subterranean secrets, in 2019 ESA asked for your ideas to detect, map, and explore lunar caves. Five…
It’s hard to know what prehistoric animals’ lives were like—even answering seemingly simple questions, like what they ate, can be a challenge. Sometimes, paleontologists get…
Early observations of stars in the local universe will pave the way for years of discovery across a range of science topics The combination of…
Rice engineers develop polymer cores that redirect light from any source to solar cells. Rice University engineers have suggested a colorful solution to next-generation energy…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during its close flyby of the planet in July 2020. Though Parker Solar Probe’s focus is…
UNM researchers examine how carnivorous dinosaur offspring reduced species diversity. Paleo-ecologists from The University of New Mexico and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have demonstrated…
New research throws wide open the amount of information that can be simultaneously transmitted by a single light source. Researchers at the University of California,…