Artist’s impression of an ultra-hot Jupiter transiting its starUtilizing the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have spotted the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere-- barium.They were surprised to find barium at high altitudes in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b-- two...
Credit: Annelisa LeinbachAn increase in genetic regulatory aspects explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.The surface area of the human being's cerebral cortex is more than 3 times the dimension of that of the chimpanzee. Neuroscientists have found that particular gene variants are linked to increases in brain surface area. The...
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the globular cluster Terzan 1. Credit: NASA & ESA, Acknowledgement: Judy SchmidtNew picture of the Terzan 1 clusterWhilst the James Webb Space Telescope is already showing fresh insights into the inmost recesses of the visible universe,...
A narwhal swims amid ice during spring migration. Leaving the coast later each year may leave narwhals more vulnerable to getting trapped in sea ice that stops them surfacing. Credit: ReutersA group of investigators affiliated with many institutions in Canada as well as Denmark has discovered proof that narwhals have been changing their seasonal migration...
Aaron Foster/Getty ImagesEver since the Cambrian blast 538.8 million years earlier-- a time when most of the animal phyla we're familiar with today were established-- 5 significant mass extinction events have whittled down the biodiversity of all creatures, great and tiny.Researchers from the United States have uncovered proof of one happening earlier, around 550...
Wake forest medical centerBrain electrodes developed to mimic the hippocampus appear to increase the encoding of memories-- and are two times as effective in people with bad memory.A singular form of brain stimulation seems to boost people's capability to remember new details-- by imitating how our brains create memories.Memory prosthesisThe "memory prosthesis," which includes...
Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times quicker than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel.NASA lately delivered $10 million in financing to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for more development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster efficient of propelling a spaceship to Mars in...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainThe impact of artificial intelligence-enabled eye scans on healthArtificial intelligence-enabled eye scans could be utilized to rapidly and precisely forecast whether a person is in grave danger of heart disease, a recent investigation involving scientists from London's Kingston College has developed.The discoveries can pave the way for cardiovascular screening to be...
This is "the first moment that lower mantle minerals have ever been observed in nature."DavemaoiteScientist claim they have found an uncommon mineral that comes straight from Planet's lower mantle- the local between the planet's core and crust - in a recent investigation publicized in Science.The discovery is a wonder because no body has or...
Texas A&M University researchers are using 3D printing and salt to create environmentally friendly polymers that will degrade over time. Credit: Texas A&M EngineeringA crew of scientists, one from the University of Cambridge and the other three from the College of Oxford, has used whole-body 3D imaging innovation for more information about the evolutionary...
