Human group sizes can be predicted with methods from physics. Credit: Complexity Science HubThe scientists at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) utilized their knowledge of the average number of friends each person has to successfully predict group sizes in a computer game. To achieve this, they employed a physics example of self-organization of particles...
Credit: Daniel / Adobe StockAcross all ages and almost all areas of education, girls performance is better." Girls are approximately a year ahead of boys regarding reading ability in OECD nations, in contrast to a wafer-thin and reducing advantage for boys in mathematics. Boys are fifty percent more likely than girls to fail at...
The characteristics of lunar tidal wave in the plasmapause. Credit: Nature Physics (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01882-8A worldwide team of space scientists reports that the moon exerts a tidal effect on the plasmasphere. For their paper released in the journal Nature Physics, the group used information from multiple spacecraft over an almost 40-year period to gauge tidal perturbations...
Credit: Futurism.Nose MetalSnorers, express joy! A startup has created a pillow that they claim detects snoring while a user is sleeping and then physically moves their head to quit the awful noise, hopefully allowing snorers' partners to have a good night's sleep without the necessity for a mouthguard or headgear-laden machines.The device, referred to...
Medically accurate model of a tardigrade or water bear.The tardigrade, also called as the moss piglet or water bear is a strange, microscopic creature that appears like something out of a Disney nightmare scene: strange but not especially threatening. The pudgy, eight-legged, water-borne animal seems perpetually puckering. It's the farthest thing from what you...
Human and mouse neurons became connected via synapses. Credit: Giovanni Cancemi/Shutterstock.comThink of if lost, deteriorated, or diseased brain parts could be regrown in the laboratory and transplanted for a new lease on life. Scientists at the University of California San Diego have gotten us closer to that fact. Human cortical organoids (or 'mini-brains') transplanted...
Earth as seen by the Danuri orbiter. Credit: KARI.South Korea's first-ever lunar orbiter Danuri has sent out black-and-white pictures of the Moon's surface and Earth, the national space center claimed Tuesday.Danuri-- a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy"-- was released on a SpaceX rocket from the USA in August 2022 and went...
The hottest startup in Silicon Valley today is OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed developer of ChatGPT, a much-hyped chatbot that could write a poem, university essay, and even a line of software code.Tesla tycoon Elon Musk was an early investor in OpenAI. Microsoft, reportedly, provided approximately a first investment of $1 billion to $10 billion in...
This artist's conception shows a late-stage galaxy merger and its two newly-discovered central black holes. The binary black holes are the closest together ever observed in multiple wavelengths. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); M. Weiss, NRAO/AUI/NSFAstronomers have found two ghostly Goliaths en route to a catastrophic meeting. The newly found pair of supermassive black holes are...
An infrared image of Io snapped by Juno in July 2022. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM)The most powerful volcanic eruptions in the Solar System occur not on Earth, however on Io, a sulfurous moon orbiting the planet Jupiter.And currently, researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) in the United States have noticed a current outburst that's been surprisingly productive,...
