The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light…
Sadness, apathy, preoccupation. These traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world’s most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet,…
The new interactive approach is being used commercially and in research but until now has not been formally defined, and doing so could boost its development…
This isn’t a future-tech scenario. This advanced autonomous capability has been developed by a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of…
In a second HSS study, investigators say they have developed a tool to measure outcomes that they hope can be refined and used worldwide. Both studies will be…
UAVs are often used for surveillance of a fixed target in military and civilian applications. In order to observe a stationary target, a fixed wing UAV must…
The new seasonal variation, recorded by the Coherent Germanium Neutrino Technology (CoGeNT) experiment, is exactly what theoreticians had predicted if dark…
Stony Brook University graduate student Qiang Zhu, together with Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem R. Oganov, postdoc Andriy O. Lyakhov and their…
The international T2K collaboration announced today that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon…
In the T2K experiment in Japan, a muon neutrino beam was produced in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, called J-PARC, located in Tokai village,…
The mechanics of instinctive behavior are mysterious. Even something as simple as the question of how a mouse can use its powerful sense of smell to detect and…
The system works by taking advantage of the multiple sensors on a mobile phone, as well as those of other mobile phones in the vicinity.Dubbed TagSense, the…
Computers are great at treating words as data: Word-processing programs let you rearrange and format text however you like, and search engines can quickly find…
A group led by Maria Karayiorgou, MD, and Joseph A. Gogos, MD, PhD, examined the genomes of patients with schizophrenia and their families, as well as healthy…
New research from MIT suggests that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language, a finding that marks a major advance in the search…
The interferometers they use here measure with such sensitivity that a particular quantum phenomenon of light – shot noise – limits the measuring accuracy….
Astronomers working on the U.S.’ first asteroid-sample return mission – the NASA mission named OSIRIS-REx – have begun a months-long observing campaign that is…
The radial glial cells, which are marked by long projections that can forge through brain tissue, had never previously been found in an adult spinal cord….
The team unveiled in a report in the journal Physical Review Letters this month a ready-made method for detecting the collision of stars with an elusive type…
Users analyze real scientific data collected by NASA’s Kepler mission, which has been searching for planets beyond our own solar system — called exoplanets —…
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