Summary: Researchers reveal how the anterior cingulate cortex and motor cortex collaborate to update behaviors when adding a new step to an established task. Source: MIT Life is full of processes t… [+8297 chars]
Did you see a stunning image of Proxima Centauri taken by the James Webb Space Telescope online this week? Sorry, youve been duped. The photo does not depict the nearest star to our Sun; it's just a … [+1948 chars]
A distant neutron-star merger unleashed one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts (GRB) ever seen, according to new observations by ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chi… [+5278 chars]
It's a record that has been broken multiple times over the past two years alone, and one that we expect to see broken again soon. Astronomers using the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope (… [+4345 chars]
Science is never static, it evolved as new tools and techniques become available and old knowledge is updated with new based on obesrvations, tests and study. Change is of course the only constant an… [+1382 chars]
History remembers October 4, 1957, a lot better than it remembers January 4, 1958though in recent weeks, the second date is coming to loom larger than the first. October 4, 1957, was the day the Sovi… [+4563 chars]
Cells and culture conditions PC-3 and LNCaP, both human prostate cancer cell lines, were purchased from the American Type Culture Centre (ATCC) and have catalogue numbers CRL-1435 and CRL-1740 respe… [+18338 chars]
DNA-based information is a new interdisciplinary field linking information technology and biotechnology. The field hopes to meet the enormous need for long-term data storage by using DNA as an inform… [+3304 chars]
Researchers, for the very first time, have managed to observe one of the most powerful flashes in the sky caused by the collision of a star and a neutron star, by a millimetre wavelength radio astron… [+2083 chars]
Who's who? @NASAJPL Emilee Richardson, JPL digital lead@MarsCuriosity Ashwin Vasavada, project scientist@NASAGoddard Charles Malespin, Mars sampling scientist@USGS_AstroGeo Lauren Edgar, Mars geologi… [+585 chars]
<ul><li>The Perseid meteor shower typically produces from 50 to 100 meteors per hour.</li><li>The shower occurs every year when the Earth passes through the cloud of debris left by the comet Swift-Tu… [+2539 chars]
Psychologists from Durham University, UK have found in their study that bonobos produce a variety of signals including "baby-like" signals to strategically display distress when they are attacked by … [+4055 chars]