For years, physicists have been making major advances and breakthroughs in the field using their minds as their primary tools. But what if artificial intelligence could help with these discoveries? … [+3136 chars]
Serotonin (5-HT) is one of the main neurotransmitters in the human central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. It helps regulate appetite, memory, cognition and mood through serotonin recep… [+3297 chars]
Venus’ environment bears no signs of microbes consuming or pooping, which indicates that the rare chemical configuration of the planet’s clouds cannot be understood by extraterrestrial life. In a re… [+1547 chars]
In recent decades, Mars has been regarded as humanitys next frontier in terms of space exploration and travel. Astronomers and space enthusiasts have concentrated more on Mars than any other planet … [+2672 chars]
The emergence of new thin semiconductor materials necessitates a quantitative analysis of the entire amount of RHEED records, which is time-consuming and involves expertise. To address this issue, re… [+5913 chars]
One of the most famous hypergiant stars is Betelgeuse, located in the constellation of Orion. Betelgeuse has been the subject of a lot of interest recently because of its strange behavior: Beginning … [+1497 chars]
PAstronomers have established that mergers are the dominant process for galaxy formation. Over a period of 10 billion years, a series of collisions and mergers of smaller galaxies led to the formatio… [+2077 chars]
PASADENA, Calif. The faint dwarf galaxies in a nearby galaxy group seem to have missed the memo. Instead of being dispersed evenly around the groups most massive galaxy, which is what happens in our … [+1683 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a pair of exoplanets in orbit around HD 260655, which is at a distance of 33 light years from the Sun. This makes HD 260655 one of the closest known multiplanet systems. T… [+2916 chars]
Astronomers have caught a white dwarf star, G238-44 in the process of cannibalising the remains of its star system, that has been devastated by the cataclysmic explosion in which the host star died. … [+4246 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a new type of star system that are not exactly galaxies, and exist only in isolation. The structures that appear as 'blue blobs' contain only newborn blue stars, distribut… [+3787 chars]
An international team has reconstructed the first ancient genome of E. coli, using fragments extracted from the gallstone of a 16th century Italian mummy. Modern E. coli is commonly found in the int… [+1935 chars]