The core of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Standing 10 feet (3 meters) h… [+3966 chars]
They are many times faster than flash memory and require significantly less energy: memristive memory cells could revolutionize the energy efficiency of neuromorphic computers. In these computers, wh… [+5585 chars]
In a study that could help with the treatment of autism in humans, Chinese researchers discovered that mice who had their whiskers cut at a young age were more likely to develop social disorders late… [+2003 chars]
The Tasmanian tiger could be reintroduced into the wild within a decade after a US biotechnology company backed by the Winklevoss twins pledged to recreate the animal almost 90 years after it was dec… [+3811 chars]
Michael Egnor has noted that the famous philosopher René Descartes (15961650) thought that animals were biological machines that did not have minds at all. Many arguments can be mustered against that… [+5344 chars]
By firing a Fibonacci laser pulse at atoms inside a quantum computer, physicists have created a completely new, strange phase of matter that behaves as if it had two dimensions of time. The new pha… [+7753 chars]
The Orion Nebula is a giant cloud of gas and dust that spans more than 20,000 times the size of our own solar system. It one of the closest active star-forming regions to Earth, and is therefore one … [+1992 chars]
Upon irradiation by infrared light, adamantane-based molecular clusters with the general composition [(RT)4E5] (with R = organic group; T = C, Si, Ge, Sn; E = O, S, Se, Te, NH, CH2, ON) emit highly d… [+7893 chars]
We have discovered thousands of exoplanets in recent years. Most have them have been discovered by the transit method, where an optical telescope measures the brightness of a star over time. If the s… [+3201 chars]
Scientists drilling deep into an iceberg off Greenland have discovered a fish with glowing green antifreeze coursing through its veins. The juvenile variegated snailfish (Liparis gibbus) contained t… [+4187 chars]
Newswise — ITHACA, N.Y. -- At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers … [+5287 chars]
Synthesis and characterizations of mechanochemically synthesized inverse vulcanized polymers We synthesized ten polymers using a ball mill, starting from different crosslinkers ranging from aromatic… [+21085 chars]