In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a team of researchers evaluated the variations between Gaussian and lattice light sheets related to beam homogeneity, axial precision, transverse… [+5572 chars]
A neuromorphic chip, key to the predicted paradigm shift in computing performance.Credit: Seung Hwan Lee Solid-state computing has had a long run since the 1950s, when transistors began replacing va… [+7696 chars]
A company called Air Protein is attempting to do what would have sounded like something out of a science-fiction film just a few years ago: to make meat out of carbon dioxide. Lisa Dyson and John Re… [+1540 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most powerful telescopes ever built. It is the successor to the famous Hubble telescope, and it is significantly more powerful. Over the last month… [+1954 chars]
Photo credit: Linda Tanner, via Flickr (cropped). In a series of posts (here, here, here, and here) I have been responding to YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon, aka Erika, on the question of whether the paper… [+2791 chars]
Earth has been walloped by enormous asteroids in the past, and it’s going to happen again. For the first time in history, there’s a chance that we could intercept one of these objects and prevent an … [+2696 chars]
Newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) programs accurately predicted the role of DNAs regulatory elements and three-dimensional (3D) structure based solely on its raw sequence, according to two… [+3952 chars]
The device is part of the materials being developed to withstand the highly-erosive individual oxygen atoms prevailing at the top of the atmosphere, the result of standard oxygen molecules of the sam… [+998 chars]
This years Perseid meteor shower is expected to peak between August 11 and August 12, but it could be difficult to see the shooting stars this time around since the event coincides with a full moon n… [+1733 chars]
After each use of one of the tools at the end of the Perseverance rovers arm, the missions engineering team always takes images of the tool to make sure everything is still in working order. Last we… [+3070 chars]
The universe we live in is governed by the laws of physics. Everything we do or see occurs in accordance with these laws. As far as we know, the laws of physics are unchanging and unbreakable. No mat… [+3267 chars]
Within 24 hours of accessing the first stage of Australia's newest supercomputing system, researchers have processed a series of radio telescope observations, including a highly detailed image of a s… [+5168 chars]
