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Cosmic barbecue: Researchers spot 60 new ‘hot Jupiter’ candidates
A hot Jupiter at various phases of its orbit. The sizes of the star and planet and the separations between them are to scale...
Archaeologists put sound back into a previously silent past
Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (Stock image)
Credit: © gnagel / Fotolia
Many attempts to explain...
Computer that reads body language
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed methods to detect the body pose, including facial expressions and hand positions, of multiple individuals. This enables computers...
Ruthenium rules for new fuel cells
Rice University scientists have fabricated a durable catalyst for high-performance fuel cells by attaching single ruthenium atoms to graphene.
Credit: Chris Zhang/Rice University
Rice University scientists...
Phase 1 trial of first Ebola vaccine based on 2014 virus strain shows vaccine...
Hypodermic needle (stock image).
Credit: © Nicola De Mitri / Fotolia
Results from the first phase 1 trial of an Ebola vaccine based on the current...
Possible explanation for unparalleled spread of Ebola virus discovered
William Wimley is the George A. Adrouny Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Tulane University School of Medicine.
Credit: Guillermo Cabrera-Rojo
The world may be...
Nasal spray vaccine has potential for long-lasting protection from Ebola virus
Man uses a nasal spray (stock image). Results from a small pre-clinical study represent the only proof to date that a single dose of...
Seafloor valleys discovered below West Antarctic glaciers
West Antarctica glaciers observed during an October 2014 NASA Operation IceBridge mission. New research shows valleys in the ocean floor enable warm, salty water...
West Antarctic Ice Sheet loss over the last 11,000 years seen in new study
Sediment cores were collected from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica using the German research vessel RV Polarstern.
Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey
Reporting...
How the brain recognizes what the eye sees
The illustration on the right shows how the brain's V1 and V2 areas might use information about edges and textures to represent objects like...
New computing system takes its cues from human brain
This is a graph with six nodes and three colors.
Credit: Georgia Tech
Some problems are so challenging to solve that even the most advanced computers...
