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You can teach an old dog new tricks, but younger dogs learn faster
The dogs were trained to touch symbols on a screen using their nose.
Credit: Lisa Wallis/Vetmeduni Vienna
The effect of aging on cognitive processes such as...
Itsy bitsy spider: Fear of spiders and snakes is deeply embedded in us
When the babies saw a snake or a spider (second row) instead of a flower or a fish (first row) of the same size...
Pollution responsible for 16 percent of early deaths globally
Urban air pollution in the city of Beirut.
Credit: © disq / Fotolia
Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author...
Surface Helium Detonation Spells End for White Dwarf
A type Ia supernova detected within a day after exploding: This image was taken with Hyper Suprime-Cam mounted on the Subaru Telescope.
Credit: University of...
The super-Earth that came home for dinner
An artist's illustration of a possible ninth planet in our solar system, hovering at the edge of our solar system. Neptune's orbit is shown...
New Telescope Attachment Allows Ground-Based Observations of New Worlds
Left: Light from a laser pointer is shaped into a wide and stable output using a beam-shaping diffuser. A carefully designed pattern is precisely...
Scientists Discover More About the Ingredients for Star Formation
Comparison between the stellar (top) and molecular hydrogen (bottom) distribution in very gas-rich galaxies three billion years younger than the Milky Way. Optical data...
Ancient Asteroid Impact Exposes the Moon’s Interior
The South Pole-Aitken basin is the darker area at the bottom of this image.
Credit: Photo by NASA/Goddard Space Flight CenterScientific Visualization Studio
Scientists have long...
Giant Exoplanet Hunters: Look for Debris Disks
This artist's rendering shows a large exoplanet causing small bodies to collide in a disk of dust.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
There's no map showing all the billions...
Haumea, the Most Peculiar of Pluto Companions, Has a Ring Around It
Artist concept of Haumea, with the correct proportions of the main body and the ring. The ring is at a distance of 2287 kilometers...
Reconstructing Cassini’s Plunge Into Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is shown during its Sept. 15, 2017, plunge into Saturn's atmosphere in this artist's depiction.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its...
