Big bodies and big brains have helped crows and ravens survive in a variety of climates and habitats all over the world, new research finds. Crows and ravens, well known for their black color and th… [+3885 chars]
A low-res version of the high resolution image of the Sun from Solar Orbiter.ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) A few weeks ago I wrote about a ground-breakin… [+7467 chars]
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense star clusters located throughout the universe. The study, published in … [+3576 chars]
From WIRED: Increasingly journals have published research thats free for anyone to read, and scientists have shared their data among each other. The open science movement has also entailed the rise … [+3580 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]
image: The researchers clamped the saw in two configurations: a J shape (left) and an S shape (right). The S shape has an inflection point (the sweet spot) in its profile, while J shape doesn't/ (Cre… [+4950 chars]
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Stable packets of light waves — called optical solitons — are emitted in ultrashort-pulse lasers as a chain of light flashes. These solitons often combine into pairs with very short temporal separati… [+2869 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]
Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on Earth that could be used in f… [+4622 chars]
The latest advance in recommendation technology shows that better user and item representations can be learned via performing graph convolutions on the user-item interaction graph. However, such a fi… [+2080 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]
