Growing black hole is the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

ESA’s European Remote Sensing 2 satellite (ERS-2) was recently spotted tumbling as it descends through the atmosphere. These images were captured by cameras on board other satellites by Australian company HEO on…

NASA Experiment Sheds Light on Highly Charged Moon Dust

Researchers are studying data from a recent suborbital flight test to understand lunar regolith, or Moon dust better, and its potentially damaging effects as NASA prepares to send astronauts back…

A Prelude to Speech: How the Brain Forms Words

Summary: Researchers made a groundbreaking discovery on how the human brain forms words before speaking. By utilizing Neuropixels probes, they’ve mapped out how neurons represent speech sounds and assemble them…

Shaping Empathy: Adult Brains Can Learn Compassion

Summary: Empathy, often considered a fixed trait, has been shown to be malleable in adults, influenced by observing the empathetic reactions of others. The study utilized Computational Modeling and functional…

Research examines 700 plant-based foods to see how healthy they really are

Vegetarian burger. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain If you’re thinking about buying plant-based foods, a trip to the supermarket can leave you bewildered. There are plant-based burgers, sausages and mince. The…

New cell-based immunotherapy offered for melanoma

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is one of the first centers nationwide to offer a…

Why bans on smartphones or social media for teenagers could do more harm than good

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There are growing calls for young people under the age of 16 to be banned from having smartphones or access to social media. The Smartphone Free…

Human-like real-time sketching by a humanoid robot

TEO the UC3M Robotics Lab humanoid robot painting a flower. Credit: Fernandez-Fernandez et al The rapid advancement of deep learning algorithms and generative models has enabled the automated production of…

Anti-satellite systems are indiscriminate, posing a risk to everyone’s spacecraft