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…
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Reclusive Neutron Star May Have Been Found in Famous Supernova SN 1987A
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…
New Design Improves Efficiency of Next-Generation Perovskite Solar Cells
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…
New Metamaterial Structures for Studying the Oldest Light in the Universe
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: Magnetic Effect Without a Magnet
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….
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Research Suggests Proper Fit of COVID Face Masks Is More Important Than Material
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,…
Researchers Say They’ve Solved the Puzzling Mystery of the Moons of Mars
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…
First Complete COVID-19 Coronavirus Model Shows Cooperation – “They Work Together”
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Memory Without a Brain: How a Single Cell Slime Mold Makes Smart Decisions
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 Calm COVID-19’s Cytokine Storms and Unclog Blood Clots Linked to Lethality
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…
European Space Agency Plans Mission to Explore Caves on the Moon
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…
Crystals Discovered in the Stomach of Fossil Bird Complicates the Mystery of Its Diet
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…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Be the World’s Premier Space Science Observatory – Here’s What Those Powerful Capabilities Mean for Astronomy
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…
Luminescent Solar Waveguide Windows Generate Energy From Inside and Out
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 Captures Stunning View of Venus
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…
Do Teenage “Tyrants” – Carnivorous Dinosaur Offspring – Explain Lack of Dinosaur Diversity?
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…
Data Limits Could Vanish With New Optical Antennas and “Rings of Light”
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,…