This image, taken by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), shows two supermassive black holes, which appear as the blobs with red strips. The black holes are in the center…
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High Rates of Suicidal Ideation in Rural Black Men
Summary: A new study highlights the alarming rates of suicidal thoughts among rural Black men, attributing significant causes to childhood adversity and racism. This research, involving over 500 African American…
Building energy management platform uses AI and statistical methods to optimize operations
Researchers checking fault characteristics of direct current distribution for distributed energy resources. Credit: Korea Institute of Energy Research The research team led by Dr. Jeong Hak-geun at the Energy ICT…
Physicists demonstrate parity anomaly in a topological insulator
Schematic of the device used in the experiment. The re-entrant quantum Hall effect, where the electrical resistance goes back and forth when the magnetic field is increased, is a signature…
‘Mother of Dragons’ Comet Visible in the Night Sky
Comets are ancient cosmic icebergs. They are roughly 4.6 billion years old and formed at the same time as the Sun, Earth and the other planets. Gravitational interactions fling them towards…
Helping children eat healthier foods may begin with getting parents to do the same, research suggests
Most parents, educators and policymakers agree that children should eat healthy foods. However, our peer-reviewed paper suggests the strategy adults often use to achieve that can sometimes backfire. Fortunately, there’s…
MicroStrategy Launches AI-Powered Self-Service Analytics Tool
In what could be a peek at the future of AI integration in enterprises, MicroStrategy on Tuesday announced a new addition to its platform that simplifies access to business analytical…
Cell Size is More Important in Conditions of Low Oxygen – Functional Ecologists
In this post, Félix P. Leiva, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany, discusses his article “The role of cell size in shaping responses to oxygen and temperature in…
The construction of visual attention highlighted at the neuronal level
Attention being caught. Credit: Mikhail Nilov. A giant billboard flashes on the side of a country road. Why does it catch our attention more easily than other details in the…
Scientists on the hunt for evidence of quantum gravity’s existence at the South Pole
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Several thousand sensors distributed over a square kilometer near the South Pole are tasked with answering one of the large outstanding questions in physics: does quantum…
