Astronomers produce largest 3-D catalog of galaxies
A team of astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has produced the world's largest three-dimensional astronomical imaging catalog...
Researchers use artificial intelligence language tools to decode molecular movements
By applying natural language processing tools to the movements of protein molecules, University of Maryland scientists created an abstract language that describes the multiple...
Ice melt projections may underestimate Antarctic contribution to sea level rise
Fluctuations in the weather can have a significant impact on melting Antarctic ice, and models that do not include this factor can underestimate the...
How SARS-CoV-2 disables the human cellular alarm system
As the world is more than half a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors and researchers have a fairly good idea of what the...
Birds share food with less fortunate conspecifics
People aren't the only ones who show sympathy. Birds also seem to care about the fate of conspecifics. They notice how much food the...
‘Universal law of touch’ will enable new advances in virtual reality
Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch. A team,...
A new look at sunspots
NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up—one of the agency's spacecraft is even on its way to fly...
Evidence of top quarks in collisions between heavy nuclei
The result of recent research by the CMS collaboration opens the path to study in a new and unique way an extreme state of...
Scientists find upper limit for the speed of sound
A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered...
Ants adapt tool use to avoid drowning
Researchers have observed black imported fire ants using sand to draw liquid food out of containers, when faced with the risk of drowning. This...
Feline friendly? How to build rap-paw with your cat
A team of psychologists at the Universities of Sussex and Portsmouth have purr-fected the art of building a bond with cats.
The new study "The...
