The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) instrument, developed in part at the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval, has successfully performed its first observations. Mounted on ESOs 3.6-… [+7528 chars]
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question youd like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could … [+4358 chars]
These six countries are about to go to the Moon heres why, read by Benjamin Thompson. Your browser does not support the audio element. In the next year, no fewer than seven missions are heading to … [+711 chars]
Forms of learning. (a) Habituation. Hypothetical illustration, showing diminishing responses to repeated stimuli (arrows). For additional properties, see [26]. (b) Sensitization. The opposite effect … [+6172 chars]
When the COVID pandemic broke out and Italy experienced a strict lockdown, news stories started reporting anecdotal evidence about women forced to live under the same roof with abusive partners. Howe… [+4192 chars]
Clay-based 2D nanofluidics are potential candidates for boosting the practical implementation of osmotic energy harvesting because they are inexpensive and easy to prepare on a large scale. However, … [+5991 chars]
Scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed a camera system that can recognize the colors of the infrared spectrum that doesn’t require the converting to the visible spectrum after the f… [+2800 chars]
A small international team of researchers has found that it is possible to test navigation skills in chimpanzees using virtual reality technology. In their paper published in the journal Science Adva… [+2923 chars]
On February 11th, 2016, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the detection of gravitational waves (GW) for the first time. As predicted by Einstein’… [+5140 chars]
NASA has successfully launched a rocket from Australia's remote Northern Territory, making history as the agency's first commercial spaceport launch outside the United States. The rocket blasted off… [+2530 chars]
We simulate the gaseous envelope using a spherically symmetric model that solves the structure equations of a planets interior assuming hydrostatic equilibrium63,64,65: $$\frac{{{{\mathrm{d}}}}m}{{{… [+25601 chars]
Single photons are ideal carriers of quantum information, especially because they are fast, they barely interact with the environment or each other, and large-scale infrastructure for their distribut… [+4815 chars]
