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 the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a neuron-inspired all-around telechelic polymer with remarkable me… [+3040 chars]
Cell culture Cell lines RPE1-hTERT (Flp-In) (a gift from the laboratory of P. Jallepalli), Caco-2 (a gift from the laboratory of H. Clevers), HeLa (a gift from the laboratory of M. Vermeulen), HT-29… [+17768 chars]
Astronomers have recorded the longest-lasting fast radio burst, or FRB, yet from a distant galaxy. The powerful burst of radio waves could help solve many mysteries of the cosmos, including the orig… [+2973 chars]
At the heart of every resonator be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone there is a beautiful bit of mathematics that has been heretofore unacknowledged. Yale … [+3294 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]
This is going to be the largest market in human history. Justin Cyrus, co-founder and CEO of Lunar Outpost, is referring to the space economy: The slew of activities that could take place around or … [+4903 chars]
An international team of researchers has found evidence that both total brain size and the size of a brain in relation to the body are factors that determine intelligence in animals. In their paper p… [+2807 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 team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Italy, working with a colleague from Finland, has found that African penguins are capable of vocal accommodation. In their paper publishe… [+2545 chars]
Sketch of a Higgs-producing particle collision recorded in 2012 by the CMS detector. Run 3 is boosting the energy of such collisions and is projected to produce twice as many Higgs bosons as those pr… [+6372 chars]
Fig 1: Calcium-fluorescence images of a whole C. elegans worm, showing (a) three boxed sections of interest from head to tail (left to right) at time 0 before nerve cell activation; (b) an initial ca… [+6430 chars]
