A team of astronomers have compiled 12.5 years of data from the Fermi Gammy-ray Space Telescope to form a gamma-ray pulsar timing array, a system of cosmic lighthouses that could help reveal ripples … [+4631 chars]
A team of astronomers have compiled 12.5 years of data from the Fermi Gammy-ray Space Telescope to form a gamma-ray pulsar timing array, a system of cosmic lighthouses that could help reveal ripples … [+4631 chars]
Artificial intelligence algorithms are based on mathematical models called neural networks, inspired by the biological structure of the human brain, which is made up of interconnected nodes (neurons)… [+3442 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) is learning how to touch down safely at the South Pole of the Moon, without ever leaving Earth. Actual Moon landings seem to be on the horizon in the next decade via t… [+4128 chars]
Seawater samples collected from a surfboard helped a team of researchers from the University of Exeter understand microscopic organisms living in the waves, according to a study published in the scie… [+2969 chars]
The first private sector team of fee-paying astronauts has blasted off to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The move represents a major milest… [+2491 chars]
The grand explanation physicists use to describe how the universe works may have some major new flaws to patch after a fundamental particle was found to have more mass than scientists thought. "It's … [+3854 chars]
Predicting how climate and the environment will change over time or how air flows over an aircraft are too complex even for the most powerful supercomputers to solve. Scientists rely on models to fil… [+5582 chars]
Astronomers have discovered evidence of a giant planet in the process of forming. This provides the first-ever look at the earliest stages of the formation of a gas giant planet, when it’s still emb… [+6587 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Japan has produced offspring from in vitroderived germ cells in rats. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describ… [+2663 chars]
It's difficult to predict with certainty what will happen when giant stars collide, but new, first-of-their-kind hydrodynamic simulations by the DEMOBLACK team at the University of Padova in Italy po… [+4381 chars]
Clownfish may have been made famous through the popular film Finding Nemo, but probably only a few people realize that these charismatic orange-and-white fish offer huge potential for scientific rese… [+4050 chars]