Great valley found on Mercury
A high-resolution digital elevation model derived from stereo images obtained by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed Mercury's great valley shown here in this 3D...
New records set up with ‘screws of light’
Camera image of a laser beam in false color, which consists of photons in a superposition with quantum numbers between +10,000 and -10,000. After...
New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training
This figure compares a traditionally trained algorithm to Aarabi and Guo’s heuristically trained neural net. The left and centre columns show an aggressive and...
Words and bones tell a similar story about deep history
University of Tübingen researchers found evidence of a link between cranial features and language spoken. They compared the measurements of skulls from Africa, Asia,...
Zika virus can live for hours on hard, non-porous surfaces
The Zika virus is most commonly transmitted in humans as the result of a bite from an infected mosquito or from an infected human...
Efficient approach for tracking physical activity with wearable health devices
Motion capture technology helped researchers at NC State University develop an energy-efficient technique for accurately tracking a user's physical activity based on data from...
Making spintronic neurons sing in unison
Johan Åkerman. Credit: Johan Wingborg
What do fire flies, Huygens's wall clocks, and even the heart of choir singers, have in common? They can all...
Study finds evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil in land-based birds
A seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the salt marshes. Credit: Andrea Bonisoli Alquati
The ecological consequences of an environmental disaster can extend further than one...
Researchers send messages using household chemicals
Stanford researchers led by postdoc Nariman Farsad have built a machine that sends text messages using common chemicals.Image: Standford University
Researchers have built a machine...
World’s fastest quantum simulator operating at the atomic level
Schematic explanation of the world's fastest quantum simulator. Credit: NINS/IMS
Kenji Ohmori (Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan) and a group...
Do extremely reddened quasars extinguish star formation?
An artist's impression shows a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. Credit:...
