On Christmas Day last year, the James Webb Space Telescope left Earth on its mission to show the first stars to light up the universe. Named after one of the architects of the Apollo Moon landings, … [+2929 chars]
Fish are helping researchers track down the origins of how brains compute mathematics, reports a review in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. An international team has reviewed more than 200 publications, wh… [+3848 chars]
In this raucous, steampunk tale a sacred order of scientist nuns battle against vicious Invaders from Mars and their murderous machines in an ongoing conflict that has lasted centuries. The novice s… [+46680 chars]
In 2008, the mathematicians Mu-Tao Wang of Columbia University and Shing-Tung Yau, now a professor at Tsinghua University in China and an emeritus professor at Harvard University, advanced a definiti… [+5247 chars]
Grab your binoculars: A comet that has fascinated scientists for five years approaches its closest distance from Earth this week — and you might be able to catch a glimpse. There’s a chance of spot… [+5252 chars]
If there were ever a video ideal for displaying how safety equipment can save lives, it's this one. It comes to us from Motive Video on YouTube during its coverage of the 2022 GT-R Challenge, a runwa… [+1200 chars]
Enlarge/ If a star (red trail) wanders too close to a black hole (left), it can be shredded, or spaghetified, by the intense gravity. Some of the stars matter swirls around the black hole, like water… [+5159 chars]
Researchers at I2R ASTAR Singapore and UM-CNRS LIRMM in France have recently developed a framework that could improve the ability of robots to identify objects in their surroundings that could be pot… [+6384 chars]
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. I just checked, and there are no Italian restaurants on Mars. So there goes one explanation for an odd object photographe… [+1626 chars]
A mysterious object billions of light-years from Earth is shooting out strong bursts of energy in a pattern that is similar to a heartbeat. A team of Astronomers, led by the Massachusetts Institute … [+5812 chars]
Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt have discovered that they can … [+4346 chars]
Astronomers have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to be flashing in a pattern similar to a heartbeat. It has been classified as a fast radio burst (F… [+2182 chars]
