science
Engineers design artificial synapse for ‘brain-on-a-chip’ hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
Packed within the squishy, football-sized organ are somewhere around 100 billion neurons. At...
Climate engineering, once started, would have severe impacts if stopped
Facing a climate crisis, we may someday spray sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to form a cloud that cools the Earth, but suddenly...
Big energy savings building the world’s smallest electro-optic modulator
Researchers at Oregon State University have designed and fabricated the world's smallest electro-optic modulator, which could mean major reductions in energy used by data...
New for three types of extreme-energy space particles: Theory shows unified...
New model connects the origins of very high-energy neutrinos, ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, and high-energy gamma rays with black-hole jets embedded in their environments.
One of...
Global temperature targets will be missed within decades unless carbon emissions...
New projections by researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Liverpool, and the Australian National University in Canberra, could be the catalyst the world...
A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds
The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be - a discovery that challenges scientists'...
First evidence of winds outside black holes throughout their mealtimes
New research shows the first evidence of strong winds around black holes throughout bright outburst events when a black hole rapidly consumes mass.
The study,...
Virus shown to be likely cause of mystery polio-like illness
A major review by UNSW Sydney medical researchers has identified strong evidence that a virus called Enterovirus D68 is the cause of a mystery...
Double trouble: Moisture, not just heat impacts sex of sea turtle...
Alarming results from a recent gender ratio study revealed that 99 percent of young green turtles from Australia's Northern Great Barrier Reef are female...
Finding unravels nature of cognitive inflexibility in Fragile X syndrome
Mice with the genetic defect that causes Fragile X syndrome (FXS) learn and remember normally, but show an inability to learn new information that...
Heat loss from the Earth triggers ice sheet slide towards the...
Greenland's ice sheet is becoming smaller and smaller. The melting takes place with increased strength and at a speed that no models have previously...
