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Australian continent shifts with the seasons, study finds
Fourteen GPS stations across Australia show the direction of the continent's shift from month to month.Credit: Shin-Chan Han
Australia shifts and tilts back and forth...
Your birth year predicts your odds if flu pandemic were to strike
A 3-D print of influenza virus. The virus surface (yellow) is covered with proteins called hemagglutinin (blue) and neuraminidase (red) that enable the virus...
Precaution and governance of emerging technologies
Precautionary approaches to governance of emerging technology, which call for constraints on the use of technology whose potential harms and other outcomes are highly...
World’s smallest magnifying glass makes it possible to see chemical bonds between atoms
Credit: NanoPhotonics Cambridge/Bart deNijs
For centuries, scientists believed that light, like all waves, couldn't be focused down smaller than its wavelength, just under a millionth...
Scientists observe how quantum superpositions build up in a helium atom within femtoseconds
Two different ways the helium atom can be ionized Credit: TU Wien
In the double slit experiment, a particle travels on two different paths at...
Earth-bound instrument analyzes light from planets circling distant stars
Researchers led by Princeton scientists successfully operated a new instrument, the CHARIS spectrograph, which allows them to make detailed observations of planets orbiting distant...
NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf
This illustration depicts a newly discovered brown dwarf, an object that weighs in somewhere between our solar system's most massive planet (Jupiter) and the...
A funnel on Mars could be a place to look for life
(Left) A graph charting the depth of the Hellas depression at different points, and a topographic map of the depression. (Right) A graph charting...
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions—about, say, the correlations...
Faster programs, easier programming
A system developed by researchers at MIT and Stony Brook University should make it easier for researchers to solve complex computational problems using dynamic...
November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight
This image approximates the look of the Nov. 14, 2016, full moon with data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization...
