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Physics & Astronomy

Measuring the distant universe in 3-D

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…

Health & Medicine

Exploring the Hidden Benefits of Depression Insights

Sadness, apathy, preoccupation. These traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world’s most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet,…

Information Technology

'Surrogates' aid design of complex parts and controlling video games

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…

Information Technology

Robots Collaborate to Explore and Map Buildings

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…

Health & Medicine

New Tool Measures Outcomes to Enhance Arm Surgery Success

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…

Interdisciplinary Research

Engineers Look to the Birds for the Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

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…

Physics & Astronomy

New Data Still Have Scientists in Dark Over Dark Matter

The new seasonal variation, recorded by the Coherent Germanium Neutrino Technology (CoGeNT) experiment, is exactly what theoreticians had predicted if dark…

Materials Sciences

Researchers at Stony Brook University Predict Material 'Denser than Diamond'

Stony Brook University graduate student Qiang Zhu, together with Professor of Geosciences and Physics, Artem R. Oganov, postdoc Andriy O. Lyakhov and their…

Physics & Astronomy

BU researcher plays key role in discovery of new type of neutrino oscillation

The international T2K collaboration announced today that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon…

Physics & Astronomy

Indications of a New Type of Neutrino Oscillation at the T2K Experiment

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,…

Life & Chemistry

The Smell of Danger

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…

Information Technology

TagSense: New App Smartly Tags Your Photos Instantly

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…

Interdisciplinary Research

AI Learns Language Through Gaming: A New Approach

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…

Architecture & Construction

New Study Links Non-Inherited Mutations to Schizophrenia Cases

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…

Studies and Analyses

Localizing language in the brain

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

Physics & Astronomy

Squeezed Laser Breakthrough Enhances Gravitational Wave Detection

The interferometers they use here measure with such sensitivity that a particular quantum phenomenon of light – shot noise – limits the measuring accuracy….

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Plan Last Look at Asteroid Before OSIRIS-REx Launch

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…

Life & Chemistry

New Spinal Cord Stem Cell Discovered in Adult Tissue

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….

Physics & Astronomy

Black hole, star collisions may illuminate universe's dark side

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…

Physics & Astronomy

Discover Exoplanets: Users Analyze NASA’s Kepler Data At Home

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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