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]
Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the outs… [+6362 chars]
As more companies launch networks of satellites into low-Earth orbit, a clear view of the night sky is becoming rarer. Astronomers are looking for new ways to adapt to satellites’ brightness and spee… [+5413 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]
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]
The Science Plants and algae use green-tinted chlorophyll to convert high-energy sunlight into food via photosynthesis. But what happens in deep shade? Cyanobacteria are small, photosynthetic microo… [+3357 chars]
Astronomers are planning a fishing trip to land an extraterrestrial interloper on Earth: A small meteorite from another star system that crashed into the Pacific Ocean with energy equivalent to about… [+4370 chars]
In the dark of Sunday night and Monday morning (Aug. 7 and 8), a surprise solar storm slammed into Earth, showering our planet in a rapid stream of charged particles from the sun . The resulting c… [+2512 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]
Kyoto-Since scientists first mapped the complete human genome, attention has now turned to the question of how cells use this master copy of genetic instructions. It is known that when genes are swit… [+4104 chars]
A new research paper was published in Oncotarget on August 3, 2022, entitled, "A novel mechanism of regulation of the oncogenic transcription factor GLI3 by toll-like receptor signaling." The transc… [+2918 chars]
Knowing the structure of a complex biological system isn't nearly enough to understand how it works. It helps to know how the system moves. In that light, Rice University researchers have modelled a… [+5379 chars]
