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October 22, 2024
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Oct. 21, 2024 — Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope: they had ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers created a liquid gel that quickly transforms into a spongelike antimicrobial foam to stymie severe bleeding and ultimately preserve ...
Oct. 18, 2024 — Physicists have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for -- and moreover, they might not be ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — In a new study, humans displayed sympathy towards and protected AI bots who were excluded from ...
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Oct. 17, 2024 — A new study opens the door to cutting-edge solutions that could contribute to the realization of a system capable of processing quantum information ...
Oct. 17, 2024 — Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed so ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — An international team of astronomers has figured out that a famous brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, that whip around each ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Teleoperated robots for gathering moon dust are a step closer, according to new ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have overcome the limitations of existing metasurface technologies and successfully designed a Janus metasurface capable of perfectly ...
Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — Engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture -- and it doesn't require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors. Instead, it requires only a ...
Oct. 15, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled a vision system inspired by feline eyes to enhance object detection in various lighting conditions. Featuring a unique ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part of the Mars-160 ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — Researchers have made a significant advancement in understanding the underlying heating mechanism of the sun's atmosphere, finding that reflected plasma waves could drive the heating of coronal ...
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Oct. 11, 2024 — Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big ...
Oct. 11, 2024 — A new technique enables makers to finely tune the color, shade, and texture of 3D-printed objects using only one material. The method is faster and uses less material than other ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher has ...
Oct. 10, 2024 — Research observing the physical motion of falling ice crystals could help scientists better estimate where and when these crystals will melt into ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — A team of international researchers has developed a natural fabric that urban residents could wear to counter rising temperatures in cities worldwide, caused by buildings, asphalt, and ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers took the imaginary scenes from Spider-Man seriously and created the first web-slinging technology in which a fluid material can shoot from a needle, immediately solidify as a string, and ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Artificial Intelligence has learned to master language, generate art, and even beat grandmasters at chess. But can it crack the code of abstract reasoning --t hose tricky visual puzzles that leave ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises -- especially when ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed a soft robotic 'finger' with a sophisticated sense of touch that can perform routine doctor office examinations, including taking a patient's pulse and ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — 161,979 new RNA viruses have been discovered using a machine learning tool that researchers believe will vastly improve the mapping of life on Earth and could aid in the identification of many ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers recently developed electronic tongue capable of identifying differences in similar liquids, such as milk with varying water content; diverse products, including soda types and coffee ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how ...
Oct. 8, 2024 — Researchers have just described the existence of the paradoxical Mpemba effect within quantum systems. Initially investigating out of pure curiosity, the discovery has bridged the gap between ...
Oct. 8, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel method of 3D printing that uses acoustic holograms. The process is called holographic direct sound printing (HDSP). It builds on a method introduced in 2022 that ...
Oct. 7, 2024 — NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life -- with evidence for ...
Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disc galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the Universe ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — Looking deep into the early universe with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — Deposits of ice in lunar dust and rock (regolith) are more extensive than previously thought, according to a new analysis of data from NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) mission. Ice ...
Oct. 3, 2024 — Researchers have discovered inorganic nanostructures surrounding deep-ocean hydrothermal vents that are strikingly similar to molecules that make life as we know it possible. These nanostructures are ...
Friday, October 11, 2024
- 'Inside-Out' Galaxy Growth Observed in the Early Universe
- New 3D Printing Technique Creates Unique Objects Quickly and With Less Waste
Thursday, October 10, 2024
- 'Islands' Of Regularity Discovered in the Famously Chaotic Three-Body Problem
- Snowflake Dance Analysis Could Improve Rain Forecasts
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
- The New Fashion: Clothes That Help Combat Rising Temperatures
- Inspired by Spider-Man, a Lab Recreates Web-Slinging Technology
- Can Advanced AI Can Solve Visual Puzzles and Perform Abstract Reasoning?
- NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball
- Nature and Plastics Inspire Breakthrough in Soft Sustainable Materials
- Ultra-Sensitive Robotic 'finger' Can Take Patient Pulses, Check for Lumps
- Over 160,000 New Viruses Discovered by AI
- A Matter of Taste: Electronic Tongue Reveals AI 'inner Thoughts'
- New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'think', Say Scientists
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
- Ice Cream-Inspired Physics: Team Uncovers a Quantum Mpemba Effect, With a Host of 'cool' Implications
- Holographic 3D Printing Has the Potential to Revolutionize Multiple Industries
Monday, October 7, 2024
- New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable
- Space Oddity: Most Distant Rotating Disc Galaxy Found
Thursday, October 3, 2024
- In Odd Galaxy, NASA's Webb Finds Potential Missing Link to First Stars
- Widespread Ice Deposits on the Moon
- Nanostructures in the Deep Ocean Floor Hint at Life's Origin
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
- NASA's TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets
- AI Simulation Gives People a Glimpse of Their Potential Future Self
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
- Physicists Explore Possibility of Life Beyond Earth
- Stronger Together: Miniature Robots in Convoy for Endoscopic Surgery
- Scientists Discover Planet Orbiting Closest Single Star to Our Sun
- Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect With Their World
- Squid-Inspired Fabric for Temperature-Controlled Clothing
- Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Pluto's Moon Charon
Monday, September 30, 2024
- Watch Water Form out of Thin Air
- First Data from XRISM Space Mission Provides New Perspective on Supermassive Black Holes
Friday, September 27, 2024
- Our Cosmic Neighborhood May Be 10x Larger
- Sharing Biosignals With Online Gaming Partners to Enhance a Mutual Sense of Social Presence Between Complete Strangers
- A New Birthplace for Asteroid Ryugu
- Asteroid Ceres Is a Former Ocean World That Slowly Formed Into a Giant, Murky Icy Orb
- Orbitronics: New Material Property Advances Energy-Efficient Tech
Thursday, September 26, 2024
- This Rocky Planet Around a White Dwarf Resembles Earth -- 8 Billion Years from Now
- NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
- How Special Is the Milky Way Galaxy?
- Mars' Missing Atmosphere Could Be Hiding in Plain Sight
- Mapping Distant Planets: 'Ridges', 'deserts' And 'savannahs'
- Shrinking AR Displays Into Eyeglasses to Expand Their Use
- Webb Discovers 'weird' Galaxy With Gas Outshining Its Stars
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
- First Observation of Ultra-Rare Process That Could Uncover New Physics
- Lasers Provide Boon for Manufacturing of Ceremonial Thai Umbrellas
- Astronomers Catch a Glimpse of a Uniquely Inflated and Asymmetric Exoplanet
Monday, September 23, 2024
- Potential Indicators of Life on Other Planets Can Be Created in a Lab
- New Origami-Inspired System Turns Flat-Pack Tubes Into Strong Building Materials
- Early-Universe Quasar Neighborhoods Are Indeed Cluttered
Friday, September 20, 2024
- What Role Does a Tailwind Play in Cycling's 'Everesting'?
- New Testing System Using Janus Particles Rapidly and Accurately Detects COVID-19
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Volcanoes May Help Reveal Interior Heat on Jupiter Moon
- Engineers 3D Print Sturdy Glass Bricks for Building Structures
- Adhesive Comes Unglued on Command
- Organic Matter on Mars Was Formed from Atmospheric Formaldehyde
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
- Flexible Circuits Made With Silk and Graphene on the Horizon
- Homemade 'play-Putty' Can Read the Body's Electric Signals
- Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'carousel Lens'
- Why Petting Your Cat Leads to Static Electricity
- Gargantuan Black Hole Jets Are Biggest Seen Yet
- NASA's Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
- Measuring How Much Wood a Wood Shuck Shucks With All-New Wood Shuck Food
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
- New Understanding of the Limits on Nano-Noise
- A Wobble from Mars Could Be Sign of Dark Matter
- Synthetic Mini-Motor With Enormous Power Developed
- More Black Holes Than Expected in the Early Universe
- Beneath the Brushstrokes, Van Gogh's Sky Is Alive With Real-World Physics
Monday, September 16, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
- Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology's Two Biggest Puzzles
- Energy Transmission in Quantum Field Theory Requires Information
- Huge Gamma-Ray Burst Collection 'rivals 250-Year-Old Messier Catalog'
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- Invisibility Cloaks? Wave Scattering Simulation Unlocks Potential for Advanced Metamaterials
- Hair-Thin Wire to Help Simulate Cosmic Conditions
- NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy
- Quantum Researchers Cause Controlled 'wobble' In the Nucleus of a Single Atom
- Researchers Discover Building Blocks That Could 'revolutionize Computing'
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
- Microscale Robot Folds Into 3D Shapes and Crawls
- Astronomers Track Bubbles on Star's Surface
- Researchers Combine the Power of AI and the Connectome to Predict Brain Cell Activity
- Researchers Develop a Stretchable, Wearable Device That Lights Up an LED Using Only the Warmth of Your Skin
Monday, September 9, 2024
- New AI Can ID Brain Patterns Related to Specific Behavior
- Formation of Super-Earths Is Limited Near Metal-Poor Stars
- Artificial Muscles Propel a Robotic Leg to Walk and Jump
Friday, September 6, 2024
- AI Helps Distinguish Dark Matter from Cosmic Noise
- Astrophysics: AI Shines a New Light on Exoplanets
- Researchers Create a One-Dimensional Gas out of Light
- Massive Merger: Study Reveals Evidence for Origin of Supermassive Black Hole at Galaxy's Center
Thursday, September 5, 2024
- Gravitational Waves Unveil Previously Unseen Properties of Neutron Stars
- Researchers Discover a Space Oddity -- An Exoplanet Moving in Mysterious Ways
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
- Gigantic Asteroid Impact Shifted the Axis of Solar System's Biggest Moon
- How Bright Is the Universe's Glow? Study Offers Best Measurement Yet
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024
- Dancing Galaxies Make a Monster at the Cosmic Dawn
- Supercomputer Simulations Reveal the Nature of Turbulence in Black Hole Accretion Disks
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
- Highest-Resolution Observations Yet from the Surface of Earth
- Hidden Magmatism Discovered at the Chang'e-6 Lunar Landing Site
- Six New Rogue Worlds: Star Birth Clues