For years, the brain has been thought of as a biological computer that processes information through traditional circuits, whereby data zips straight from one cell to another. While that model is sti… [+5994 chars]
New research has identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Oceanone of Earth's main cooling systems. Ozone is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms. Many stud… [+3638 chars]
Four worlds are going to line up with the moon on Saturday (April 23), and it will be worth getting up early to see the show. The moon will be in its last-quarter phase just to the right of ringed S… [+2403 chars]
In the work led by first-author Joan Garcia-Porta, a postdoctoral research associate in biology in Arts & Sciences and now a fellow in the Department of Genetics at the University of Barcelona, t… [+3064 chars]
Most impact craters are usually circular and fairly symmetric, but not all. This odd-shaped crater on Mars is obviously an impact crater, but it has a unique oblong shape. What happened? Most crater… [+2080 chars]
Construct covalent organic frameworks foam separators by melt polymerization. Credit: Science China Press Adsorption-based (e.g., gas or liquid molecules) separation technologies have shown unique e… [+3578 chars]
It's messy out there in the universe. In the latest example, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found intermediate-mass black holes that are growing by ripping apart and consuming thousands of… [+3579 chars]
The two merging galaxies in the VV689 system have been nicknamed the 'angel wing'. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel. Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt) An angel gets its wings as two distant… [+2338 chars]
It has been common knowledge that climatic shifts, in particular the transition from the warm and wet Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya) to the cold and dry Pleistocene (2.6 mya 10 kya), played a key role in the… [+5859 chars]
Imagine a home on Mars. Is it filled with bacteria? When we send humans to Mars , they'll need places to live. In a new study, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in … [+4201 chars]
For the first time since 947 AD, four planets will line up across the southeastern sky tomorrow morning. If you head outside just before sunrise, from around 4:30am to 5am AEST, you can get a glimps… [+1275 chars]
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