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July 19, 2024
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July 16, 2024 — A new study on common food aromas may help explain why astronauts report that meals taste bland in space and struggle to eat their normal nutritional intake. This research has broader implications for improving the diets of isolated people, ...
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 orderly ...
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 wearable health monitors. Now, researchers report a ...
July 17, 2024 — Snot might not be the first place you'd expect nanobots to be swimming around. But this slimy secretion exists in more places than just your nose and piles of dirty tissues -- it also lines and helps protect the lungs, stomach, intestines and eyes. ...
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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 ...
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 — The newly discovered planet TIC 241249530 b has the most highly elliptical, or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile ...
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 16, 2024 — A new study of radar experiment data from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn has yielded fresh insights related to the makeup and activity of the liquid hydrocarbon seas near the north pole of ...
July 16, 2024 — Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around stars like our Sun. The discovery is surprising because it is not clear how a star that exploded winds up next to a star ...
July 16, 2024 — A strange 'garden sprinkler-like' jet coming from a neutron star has been pictured for the first time. The S-shaped structure is created as the jet changes direction due to the wobbling of the disc ...
July 16, 2024 — Tantalizing evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the Universe's 'timekeepers'. These pulsars -- neutron stars which rotate and emit lighthouse-like beams of ...
July 9, 2024 — Investigators sought to help figure out how to send materials like probiotics into space and to better treat a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) and ...
July 15, 2024 — Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have finally confirmed what models have previously predicted: An exoplanet has differences between its eternal morning and eternal evening ...
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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 15, 2024 — Researchers are training neural networks to make decisions more like humans would. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural ...
July 15, 2024 — An international study reveals the extreme atmospheric conditions on the celestial objects, which are swathed in swirling clouds of hot sand amid temperatures of 950C. Using NASA's powerful ...
July 15, 2024 — Our universe is around 13.8 billion years old. Over the vastness of this time, the tiniest of initial asymmetries have grown into the large-scale structures we can see through our telescopes in the ...
July 15, 2024 — Scientists have created a computer program that 'paints' the structure of molecules in the style of famous Dutch artist, Piet Mondrian. Researchers are opening eyes and minds to the beauty ...
July 12, 2024 — Two for two! A duo of interacting galaxies commemorates the second science anniversary of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which takes constant observations, including images and highly ...
July 12, 2024 — Scientists have developed a tiny 'claw machine' that is able to pick up and drop a marble-sized ball in response to exposure to chemical vapors. The findings point to a technique that can ...
July 12, 2024 — Scientists propose a new way of implementing a neural network with an optical system which could make machine learning more sustainable in the future. In a new paper, the researchers have ...
July 12, 2024 — Galaxies avoid an early death because they have a 'heart and lungs' which effectively regulate their 'breathing' and prevent them growing out of control, a new study suggests. If ...
July 11, 2024 — The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a new ...
July 11, 2024 — Engineers have trained a humanoid robot to perform a variety of expressive movements, from simple dance routines to gestures like waving, high-fiving and hugging, all while maintaining a steady gait ...
July 11, 2024 — The qualities and behavior of dark matter, the invisible 'glue' of the universe, continue to be shrouded in mystery. Though galaxies are mostly made of dark matter, understanding how it is ...
July 10, 2024 — The question of whether Mars ever supported life has captivated the imagination of scientists and the public for decades. Central to the discovery is gaining insight into the past climate of ...
July 10, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...
July 10, 2024 — Up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets, mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system that likely contain or previously contained ice and could have been one route for ...
July 10, 2024 — Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large galaxies, or relatively lightweight, with a mass of under 100 times that of the ...
July 9, 2024 — A international team of astronomers has made an exciting discovery about the temperate exoplanet LHS 1140 b: it could be a promising 'super-Earth' covered in ice or ...
July 9, 2024 — Ice in nature is surrounded by liquid most of the time, and therefore it is key to understand how ice and liquid interact. A new study has now directly observe the precise shape of ice at the ...
July 8, 2024 — An exoplanet infamous for its deadly weather has been hiding another bizarre feature -- it reeks of rotten eggs, according to a new study of data from the James Webb Space ...
July 5, 2024 — A mysterious remnant from a rare type of supernova recorded in 1181 has been explained for the first time. Two white dwarf stars collided, creating a temporary 'guest star,' now labeled ...
Friday, July 19, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
- 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
- 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
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
- NASA's Roman Mission Gets Cosmic 'sneak Peek' From Supercomputers
- Swimming Microrobots Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs to Metastatic Lung Tumors in Mice
- Laser Tests Reveal New Insights Into Key Mineral for Super-Earths
- To Heal Skin, Scientists Invent Living Bioelectronics
- Researchers Leverage Inkjet Printing to Make a Portable Multispectral 3D Camera
- Towards a New Era in Flexible Piezoelectric Sensors for Both Humans and Robots
- AI-Powered Simulation Training Improves Human Performance in Robotic Exoskeletons
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Wind from Black Holes May Influence Development of Surrounding Galaxies
- How Do Supermassive Black Holes Get Super Massive?
- 3D-Printed Mini-Actuators Can Move Small Soft Robots, Lock Them Into New Shapes
- Scientists Spot More Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe
- Origins of Fast Radio Bursts Come Into Focus Through Polarized Light
- Algae Offer Real Potential as a Renewable Electricity Source
- Would Astronauts' Kidneys Survive a Roundtrip to Mars?
- New Technique Could Help Build Quantum Computers of the Future
- Trash-Sorting Robot Mimics Complex Human Sense of Touch
- How Did a Satellite Galaxy of the Milky Way Come to Be?
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Lone Star State: Tracking a Low-Mass Star as It Speeds Across the Milky Way
- NASA's Webb Opens New Window on Supernova Science
- Researchers Engineer New Approach for Controlling Thermal Emission
- Four-Legged, Dog-Like Robot 'sniffs' Hazardous Gases in Inaccessible Environments
- Protocol for Creating 'wired Miniature Brains'
- Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago
- Researchers Demonstrate the First Chip-Based 3D Printer
- Webb Telescope Reveals Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System
- Researchers Create Skin-Inspired Sensory Robots to Provide Medical Treatment
- The Solar System May Have Passed Through Dense Interstellar Clouds 2 Million Years Ago, Altering Earth's Climate
- In a Significant First, Researchers Detect Water Frost on Solar System's Tallest Volcanoes