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August 3, 2024
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July 25, 2024 — A type of invisible, unpredictable air turbulence is expected to occur more frequently in the Northern Hemisphere as the climate warms. Known as clear air turbulence, the phenomenon also increased in ...
Aug. 2, 2024 — Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a product of 'impact ...
Aug. 1, 2024 — What if the 'Market Economy' always existed? Archaeologists tried to answer this question by researching how much Bronze Age people used to spend to sustain their daily lives. Their results show that, starting at least 3,500 years ago, the spending ...
July 30, 2024 — Researchers have found that training successive generations of generative artificial intelligence models on synthetic data gives rise to self-consuming feedback ...
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Aug. 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could expand our ...
July 30, 2024 — Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum ...
July 31, 2024 — New research led proposes a plan to safeguard Earth's imperiled biodiversity by cryogenically preserving biological material on the moon. The moon's permanently shadowed craters are cold enough for ...
July 31, 2024 — Astronomers have found that the rotational profile of a nearby star, V889 Herculis, differs considerably from that of the Sun. The observation provides insights into the fundamental stellar ...
July 29, 2024 — AI-powered image recognition could give researchers a new tool in hunt for dark ...
July 30, 2024 — Thanks to an accidental discovery, researchers have created a new super-black material that absorbs almost all light, opening potential applications in fine jewelry, solar cells and precision optical ...
July 30, 2024 — Scientists have revealed that injury dressings found in first-aid kits can reliably be used to identify shark species involved in bite incidents by ...
July 30, 2024 — Physicists have been exploring the theoretical possibility of spaceships driven by compressing the four-dimensional spacetime for decades. Although ...
July 30, 2024 — By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field as a cause of the corona's searing ...
July 29, 2024 — Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, engineers have discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations using only three active ...
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July 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a self-powered 'bug' that can skim across the water, and they hope it will revolutionize aquatic ...
July 25, 2024 — 3D-printed blood vessels, which closely mimic the properties of human veins, could transform the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Strong, flexible, gel-like tubes -- created using a novel 3D ...
July 25, 2024 — Engineers discovered that when the aluminum in soda cans is purified and mixed with seawater, the solution produces hydrogen -- which can power an engine or fuel cell without generating carbon ...
July 25, 2024 — Researchers have developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group recently ...
July 25, 2024 — Danish Tycho Brahe was most famous for his contributions to astronomy. However, he also had a well-equipped alchemical laboratory where he produced secret medicines for Europe's ...
July 24, 2024 — The praying mantis is one of the few insects with compound eyes and the ability to perceive 3D space. Engineers are replicating their visual systems to make machines see ...
July 24, 2024 — Engineers have shown that something as simple as the flow of air through open-cell foam can be used to perform digital computation, analog sensing and combined digital-analog control in soft ...
July 24, 2024 — Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters' vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal ...
July 24, 2024 — Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star in the nearby triple system Epsilon Indi. The planet is a cold super-Jupiter exhibiting a ...
July 23, 2024 — Researchers have successfully made super-heavy element 116 using a beam of titanium-50. That milestone sets the team up to attempt making the heaviest element yet: ...
July 23, 2024 — A new study shows that over half of the medicines stocked in space -- staples such as pain relievers, antibiotics, allergy medicines, and sleep aids -- would expire before astronauts could return to ...
July 22, 2024 — Researchers have found a link between some of the largest and smallest objects in the cosmos: supermassive black holes and dark matter particles. Their new calculations reveal that pairs of ...
July 22, 2024 — Researchers are calling for regulation to guide the responsible and ethical development of bio-hybrid robotics -- a ground-breaking science which fuses artificial components with living tissue and ...
July 19, 2024 — A new essay explores which conditions must be met for consciousness to exist. At least one of them can't be found in a ...
July 21, 2024 — Europa and Enceladus, icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively, have evidence of oceans beneath their crusts. A NASA experiment suggests -- if these oceans support life -- signatures of that life ...
July 18, 2024 — So far, only about ten intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered in the entire universe. The newly identified black hole causes surrounding stars in a cluster to move in an unexpectedly ...
July 17, 2024 — Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the AI for tiny, ...
July 17, 2024 — In an era when the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images is at the fingertips of the masses, the ability to detect fake pictures -- particularly deepfakes of people -- is becoming ...
July 17, 2024 — When you think of a battery, you probably don't think stretchy. But batteries will need this shape-shifting quality to be incorporated into flexible electronics, which are gaining traction for ...
July 17, 2024 — A newly engineered type of soil can capture water out of thin air to keep plants hydrated and manage controlled release of fertilizer for a constant supply of ...
Monday, July 29, 2024
Thursday, July 25, 2024
- Artificial Blood Vessels Could Improve Heart Bypass Outcomes
- A Recipe for Zero-Emissions Fuel: Soda Cans, Seawater, and Caffeine
- Spin Qubits Go Trampolining
- Chemical Analyses Find Hidden Elements from Renaissance Astronomer Tycho Brahe's Alchemy Laboratory
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
- It's Got Praying Mantis Eyes
- Foam Fluidics Showcase Lab's Creative Approach to Circuit Design
- Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision
- Images of Nearest 'super-Jupiter' Open a New Window to Exoplanet Research
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
- A New Way to Make Element 116 Opens the Door to Heavier Atoms
- Expiring Medications Could Pose Challenge on Long Space Missions
Monday, July 22, 2024
- Astrophysicists Uncover Supermassive Blackhole/dark Matter Connection in Solving the 'final Parsec Problem'
- Development of 'living Robots' Needs Regulation and Public Debate
Friday, July 19, 2024
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
- Ant Insights Lead to Robot Navigation Breakthrough
- Want to Spot a Deepfake? Look for the Stars in Their Eyes
- Completely Stretchy Lithium-Ion Battery for Flexible Electronics
- Smart Soil Can Water and Feed Itself
- Astronomers Spot a 'highly Eccentric' Planet on Its Way to Becoming a Hot Jupiter
- Enzyme-Powered 'snot Bots' Help Deliver Drugs in Sticky Situations
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
- How Astronomers Are Using Pulsars to Observe Evidence of Dark Matter
- Sun-Like Stars Found Orbiting Hidden Companions
- Food Aroma Study May Help Explain Why Meals Taste Bad in Space
- New Analysis of Cassini Data Yields Insights Into Titan's Seas
- Bizarre 'garden Sprinkler-Like' Jet Is Spotted Shooting out of Neutron Star
Monday, July 15, 2024
- NASA's Webb Investigates Eternal Sunrises, Sunsets on Distant World
- A New Neural Network Makes Decisions Like a Human Would
- Scorching Storms on Distant Worlds Revealed
- Cosmic Wrestling Match
- Scientists Create Computer Program That 'paints' The Structure of Molecules in the Style of Piet Mondrian
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb's Second Anniversary
- A Chemical Claw Machine Bends and Stretches When Exposed to Vapors
- Neural Networks Made of Light
- How the 'heart and Lungs' Of a Galaxy Extend Its Life
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Muscle Machine: How Water Controls the Speed of Muscle Contraction
- Learning Dance Moves Could Help Humanoid Robots Work Better With Humans
- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxy Tracked Using Stellar Motions
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- Mars Likely Had Cold and Icy Past, New Study Finds
- A New Twist on Artificial 'muscles' For Safer, Softer Robots
- The Origins of Dark Comets
- Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
- Found With Webb: A Potentially Habitable Icy World
- New Way for Beneficial Microbes to Survive Extreme Conditions and Space Exploration
- It Takes a Cool Microscope and Antifreeze to Really Look at Ice
Monday, July 8, 2024
Friday, July 5, 2024
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Organic Material from Mars Reveals the Likely Origin of Life's Building Blocks
- New and Improved Camera Inspired by the Human Eye
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
- 'World Record' For Data Transmission Speed
- Tiny Bright Objects Discovered at Dawn of Universe Baffle Scientists
- Soft, Stretchy Electrode Simulates Touch Sensations Using Electrical Signals
- Too Many Missing Satellite Galaxies Found
- New Class of Mars Quakes Reveals Daily Meteorite Strikes
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
- Precision Instrument Bolsters Efforts to Find Elusive Dark Energy
- Microrobot-Packed Pill Shows Promise for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice
- Mechanical Computer Relies on Kirigami Cubes, Not Electronics
- Shocked Quartz Reveals Evidence of Historical Cosmic Airburst
- Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA's Hubble and Webb Telescopes
- Small, Adsorbent 'fins' Collect Humidity Rather Than Swim Through Water
- Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
- Your Future Medications Could Be Personalized for You on a 3D Printer
- Next Platform for Brain-Inspired Computing
- Moving Objects Precisely With Sound
- Telltale Greenhouse Gases Could Signal Alien Activity
- Robots Face the Future
Monday, June 24, 2024
- Meet CARMEN, a Robot That Helps People With Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Geologists Expect Chang'e-6 Lunar Surface Samples to Contain Volcanic Rock and Impact Ejecta
- A Hidden Treasure in the Milky Way -- Astronomers Uncover Ultrabright X-Ray Source
- Star Clusters Observed Within a Galaxy in the Early Universe
- Innovative 3D Printing Method Streamlines Multi-Materials Manufacturing
Friday, June 21, 2024
Monday, June 24, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- Iron Meteorites Hint That Our Infant Solar System Was More Doughnut Than Dartboard
- Supermassive Black Hole Appears to Grow Like a Baby Star
- Can AI Learn Like Us?
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
- Titan's Lakes May Be Shaped by Waves
- Researchers Create New Class of Materials Called 'glassy Gels'
- Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Not the Same One Cassini Observed in 1600s
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
- Researchers Leverage Shadows to Model 3D Scenes, Including Objects Blocked from View
- What Happens When Neutron Stars Collide?
- Breakthrough May Clear Major Hurdle for Quantum Computers
- Astronomers See a Massive Black Hole Awaken in Real Time
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Researchers Teach AI to Spot What You're Sketching
- Modified Gravity Theory: A Million Light Years and Still Going
- Scientists Develop 3D Printed Vacuum System That Aims to Trap Dark Matter
- Pair of Merging Quasars at Cosmic Dawn
- Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula
Friday, June 14, 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- Pair Plasmas Found in Deep Space Can Now Be Generated in the Lab
- Scientists Preserve DNA in an Amber-Like Polymer
- Watery Planets Orbiting Dead Stars May Be Good Candidates for Studying Life -- If They Can Survive Long Enough
- Mysterious Mini-Neptunes
- Nanosized Blocks Spontaneously Assemble in Water to Create Tiny Floating Checkerboards