Researchers at Berkeley Lab, LLNL and UC Davis are utilizing ground motion estimates from a regional-scale geophysics model to drive infrastructure assessments.
Credit: Image Courtesy of David McCallen
With emerging exascale supercomputers, researchers will soon be able to accurately simulate the...
In the social network underlying the Ossianic epic, the 325 nodes represent characters appearing in the narratives and the 748 links represent interactions between them. Credit: Coventry University
The social networks behind one of the most famous literary controversies of...
Close primate cousins with whom we share 99 percent of our DNA, bonobos will help strangers even when there is no immediate payback, and without having to be asked first.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary
A passer-by drops...
In 1931, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills dedicated a song to the phenomenon of swing, which they called "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing." Yet, to this day, the question of what, exactly, makes...
MIT researchers and colleagues have discovered an important—and unexpected—electronic property of graphene, a material discovered only about 17 years ago that continues to surprise scientists with its interesting physics. The work, which involves structures composed of atomically thin layers...
Crow.
Credit: Helena Osvath
A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden suggests that ravens can be as clever as chimpanzees, despite having much smaller brains, indicating that rather than the size of the brain, the neuronal density and...
Researchers passed a weak constant electrical current through saline-soaked electrodes positioned over target regions in the scalp.
Credit: Image courtesy of Queen Mary University of London
Scientists have found a way to improve creativity through brain stimulation, according to researchers at...
Cockroach on a slippery tile. (stock image)
Credit: © vitali_chesnokov / Fotolia
Using the example of cockroaches, the Cologne-based zoologist Dr Tom Weihmann and his team were able to show that quickly running insects change their gait at mid-speed. This behaviour...
Measurements on a superconducting material show an abrupt transition between a normal metal and a "strange" metal. The really strange thing, however, is that this abruptness disappears when the temperature falls. "We don't have any theoretical machinery for this,"...
Hundreds of pterosaur bones laying on the surface, demonstrating the richness of these sites. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 December 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Wang at...
