Approximately 1,800 miles beneath our feet, swirling liquid iron in the Earth's outer core generates the planet's protective magnetic field. The magnetic field is invisible but is vital for life on E… [+3942 chars]
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turns its gaze on a selection of the more than 5,000 strange new worlds confirmed to exist in our galaxy, scientists will begin to trace out a fuller picture of t… [+5656 chars]
South Korea launched its first robotic mission to the Moon last week, as a SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the Danuri Lunar Pathfinder mission on August 4, 2022 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Sp… [+2497 chars]
An all fiber-based approach to generating special optical beams, called Bessel beams, could open up new applications in imaging, optical trapping and communications. Bessel beams look quite differen… [+3078 chars]
A photo of the newly identified Bathynomus yucatanensis from a single, 10-inch-long (26 cm) specimen. (Image credit: Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History) A colossal, creamy yellow woodlouse … [+3637 chars]
After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) for … [+5273 chars]
Object localization, a fundamental computer vision task, is crucial to many computer vision-based applications. While supervised approaches use manual location labels to learn to localize the objects… [+4255 chars]
Cedars-Sinai investigators have created the most bio-realistic and complex computer models of individual brain cells-; in unparalleled quantity. Their research, published today in the peer-reviewed j… [+3854 chars]
In trying to understand the nature of the cosmos, some theorists propose that the universe expands and contracts in endless cycles.Because this behavior is hypothesized to be perpetual, the universe … [+4103 chars]
For a spacecraft that’s traveled millions of kilometers across space and driven on the surface of Mars, Curiosity is holding up pretty darned well. That’s the assessment from the operations team at N… [+4591 chars]
Animals Experiment 1 The aim of experiment 1 was to describe differences in the ontogeny of play between domesticated chickens and ancestral Red Junglefowl. The Red Junglefowl (RJF) chicks (n=40) u… [+8737 chars]
Astronomers at the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i have released a stunning image that shows two spiral galaxies in the process of colliding and merging. The clashing galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC … [+3706 chars]
