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Pluto ‘Paints’ its Largest Moon Red
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution, enhanced color view of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The...
Engineers Teach Machines to Recognize Tree Species
Credit: Flickr/shubhojitghose
Engineers from Caltech have developed a method that uses data from satellite and street-level images, such as the ones that you can see...
Half of kids in American families studied spend time in households with firearms
A survey of parents in Missouri and Illinois reveals that about half of the children in the families queried spent time in homes that...
High factor sunscreen can decrease the risk of melanoma by 33%
A large study published by the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Oslo in the highly ranked Journal of Clinical Oncology found that...
Astronomers shed light on different galaxy types
Galaxies of Stephan's Quintet in the constellation Pegasus, observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team.
Australian scientists have...
How our brain slows down the effects of aging
The older we get, the more difficult it becomes to put the world around us in order. Yet, our brain develops remarkable strategies to...
Study links selfies, happiness
For a recent “positive computing” study by informatics researchers at UCI, subjects were asked to smile and snap a selfie with their smartphone every...
ALMA spots possible formation site of icy giant planet
ALMA image of the disk around the young star TW Hydrae. Several gaps are clearly depicted. Researchers found that the size of the dust...
Gaia’s billion-star map hints at treasures to come
An all-sky view of stars in our Galaxy – the Milky Way – and neighbouring galaxies, based on the first year of observations from...
Visualizing the Warmest August in 136 Years
NASA Earth Observatory chart by Joshua Stevens, based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
August 2016 was the warmest August in...
Mapping our galaxy: The Milky Way revealed
By identifying stars from smaller galaxies long ago swallowed up by our own, Gaia will help scientists better understand the Milky Way's origin and...
