We read emotions based on how the eye sees
Credit: Association for Psychological Science
We use others' eyes - whether they're widened or narrowed - to infer emotional states, and the inferences we make...
Unravelling the atomic and nuclear structure of the heaviest elements
Electron shell diagram for Actinium, the 89th element in the periodic table of elements.Image credit: Wikimedia
Little is known about the heaviest, radioactive elements in...
Scientists create a nano-trampoline to probe quantum behavior
The experimental setup for measuring specific heat includes a suspended Si membrane (the 'nano trampoline') a thin copper meander used as a heater, and...
Why are there different ‘flavors’ of iron around the Solar System?
This is a scanning electron microscope image of one of the experiments in Elardo and Shahar's paper that shows a bright, semi-spherical metal (representing...
New metamaterial is proved to be the world’s first to achieve the performance predicted...
The Isomax cell configuration. Credit: UCSB Engineering
In 2015 UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist Jonathan Berger developed an idea that could change...
Twitter researchers offer clues for why Trump won
Image Credit:Flickr/IoSonoUnaFotoCamera
Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang did not set out to predict who would win the 2016 U.S. presidential election. However, their exhaustive, 14-month...
NASA’s fermi finds possible dark matter ties in andromeda galaxy
The gamma-ray excess (shown in yellow-white) at the heart of M31 hints at unexpected goings-on in the galaxy's central region. Scientists think the signal...
Tune your radio: Galaxies sing when forming stars
The compilation shows composite infrared images of these galaxies created from Spitzer (SINGS) and Herschel (KINGFISH) observations. Credit: Maud Galametz.
A team led from the...
Deep Learning predicts hematopoietic stem cell development
What are they going to be? Hematopoietic stem cells under the microscope: New methods are helping the Helmholtz scientists to predict how they will...
‘Sweet spot’ where tissue stiffness drives cancer’s spread
Cancer cells respond to an optimal stiffness of surrounding ECM. If the collagen is too soft, it doesn't pull them hard enough to break...
Prediction: More gas-giants will be found orbiting Sun-like stars
Boss' model of a planet-forming disk, which demonstrates that gas giant planets could be found orbiting Sun-like stars at distances similar to Jupiter and...
