Category: 7. Science

It is time again for one of the more reliable meteor showers of the year: the Leonids. Active between early November and early December, the shower experiences a sharp peak this week, expected on the night of 16–17 November.

The meteors take…

A new duck-billed dinosaur from northern New Mexico turns out to be a species we did not have on the books. It lived about 75 million years ago in the late Cretaceous, when rivers laced a warm, coastal plain.

The fossils were first collected in…

“We need to educate a generation of neuroscientists who are able to think within computational frameworks while also understanding the fundamentals of current brain knowledge and the gaps that remain. The current generation…

Citations are an imperfect measure of scientific value, but they can provide a snapshot of papers that have proved impactful over time. Some highly cited papers put forth useful techniques or scintillating new results. Others provide…

See ancestral trees for the neuroscientists whose fingerprints are shown above. 

Larry Abbott: When I was a graduate student, Abbott’s work on models of the visual system introduced me to theoretically driven approaches that…

Scientists have suggested that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has the long-term stability required for life to develop.

A new study has provided the first evidence of significant heat flow at Enceladus’ north pole, overturning previous…