Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Brecher imaged the distant…
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Individual action won’t save the climate – unless governments and businesses back it
Mindy Hernandez is director of the Living Lab for Equitable Climate Action at the World Resources Institute. We’ve all heard it: Eat less beef. Fly less. Buy secondhand. Track your…
To Understand a Special Hadron, Researchers Turn to Supercomputers and Quantum Chromodynamics
The Science Newswise — Hadrons are particles formed by quarks and gluons that are bound together by the strong nuclear force. Nuclear scientists need to understand how hadrons behave and interact with other…
Search for Sterile Neutrinos Continues at Nuclear Reactors
Newswise — Neutrinos, elusive fundamental particles, can act as a window into the center of a nuclear reactor, the interior of the earth, or some of the most dynamic objects…
Autism not linked with increased age-related cognitive decline, finds study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There is no difference over time in the spatial working memory of older people who have autistic traits and those who are neurotypical, finds a new…
Elite woman found remarkably preserved
Archaeologists from the Caral Archaeological Zone (ZAC), led by Dr. Ruth Shady Solís from the Ministry of Culture, have discovered a well-preserved burial at the Áspero archaeological site in Barranca…
Can technology transform health science? The promise of exposomics
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every breath we take, every meal we eat, and every environment we encounter leaves a molecular fingerprint in our bodies—a hidden record of our lifelong exposures.…
Combining electrical and force signals boosts prosthetic hand accuracy
Graduate student Peyton Young works with a robotic arm controlled by electromyography (EMG) signals. Young has now developed a technique to use pressure measurements from muscles (force myography, FMG) combined…
Diagram-based language streamlines optimization of complex coordinated systems
Coordinating complicated interactive systems, whether it’s the different modes of transportation in a city or the various components that must work together to make an effective and efficient robot, is…
