The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial ...

Their high-fidelity computational model is a milestone both in biology, where it can help explain the octopus's impressive capability, and engineering. "The computational model is a useful testbed for ...

Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that electrons could be coaxed into stillness at low densities and cold ...

In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow ...

What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity ... To appreciate the scope of this 696-page biography of John Lewis, an Atlas of the civil rights movement who had Sisyphean ...

Scientists have known for years that DNA could ... The team was able to successfully store an image of a Chinese rubbing (at a size of 16,833 bits) and a panda (sized 252,504 bits) in DNA and ...

it has proven to be a very difficult object to image. This is thanks in part to material whipping around it at near light-speeds. However, after years of trying, scientists with the Event Horizon ...

Nov. 5, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI-powered system that mimics the human sense of smell to detect and track toxic gases in real time. Using advanced artificial neural networks ...

Be very careful when comparing AI to the nature of human capabilities, which for example I delicately cover ... is The AI Scientist, you might find yourself interpreting that in two different ...

A study published in Nature shows off the Nadir crater in ways science had not previously seen ... These data allow us to image this fully in three dimensions and peel back the layers of ...

Yet now, an independent analysis of the EHT data suggests part of the image's doughnut-like appearance may be an artifact due to the way it was put together. This discovery owes itself to a trio of ...