Lindsay points toward an important issue: the disconnect between research on the sensory processing of complex, natural visual information and…
A recent study of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has detected several organic compounds that had never been recorded there before. The findings, published this month in Nature Astronomy, provide new clues about the interior chemical…
It’s another moon phase tonight, which means the moon will look around half full (or, half gone?). But what phase is it, and what does it mean? Let’s find out.
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hydrogen is an important energy source for the future. Therefore, understanding the electrolysis process is essential. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at…
Image: (From left) Prof Mary Chan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dr Kaixi Zhang from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and Prof Paula Hammond from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were…
The first step to solving a problem is understanding it, and a common worldwide phenomenon wasn’t properly understood until shockingly recently. With the aid of satellites, researchers can now accurately track the state of the world’s glaciers.
(Web Desk) – Spruce tree needles contain tiny gold particles — and they could indicate large gold deposits beneath the surface.
When Burl Ives sang “Silver and gold decorations, on every Christmas tree” in…
NASA launched three satellites to help provide crucial insights into solar storms, which can scramble communication systems on Earth and pose a threat to astronauts.
Solar storms can impact systems like GPS, radio channels, and the…
BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) — A Chinese research team has compiled a groundbreaking plasma metabolome atlas, mapping the extensive links between metabolic profiles and a wide range of human diseases.
This work provides a valuable theoretical…
The naked mole rat is famous for living nearly 10x longer than other mammals of similar size.
| Photo Credit: Tim Evanson
The naked mole rat…