The moon is shown during a full lunar eclipse, Sunday, May 15, 2022, near Moscow, Idaho, with the reddish color caused by it passing into the shadow of the Earth. A Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout North America in the predawn hours -- the farther west, the better...
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) topographic map of the investigated area at Ultimi Scopuli. Dotted lines are MARSIS observations. The blue region indicates the geographic location of the main bright area. The observations in the light-gray shadowed area have not been used for data inversion, as they cross high and low basal reflectivity areas...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainA little group of scientists at the College of Manchester has created a method for producing a molecular based, finite-state device. Their research study was released in the journal Nature.In computer science, there is a virtual tool referred to as a Turing machine, established by Alan Turing as a means to...
Researchers developed a "DishBrain" system that associated neurons to a computer running the typical computer game Pong. Within five minutes, the cells commenced "learning" and improved their efficiency. The device of "learning" could entail the free-energy concept, according to which the brain searches for to lessen entropy (unpredictability) in its atmosphere.Recently research announced in...
Mixed plastics are difficult to recycle, but a new process shows how it can be done.Credit: China Photos/GettyMixtures of plastics, normally a headache to recycle, have been broken down into helpful, smaller chemical ingredients in one two-step process, reported in Science on 13th October.The plastics problem facing the globe is exacerbated by the difficulty...
Planet Mars stock photo. Credit: iStock Ancient microbes on Mars likely triggered a climate change that led to their own demise, a report from Space.com explains.The study was published in Nature Astronomy, and it details how simple microbes that fed on hydrogen and excreted methane were likely abundant on Mars approximately 3.7 billion years back....
Plastic bottles A new technique has been developed by researchers that changes polyethylene (PE), the most widely generated plastic, into polypropylene (PP), the second most produced plastics.Upcycling plastic efficiently to remove wasteThe purpose of this process is to decrease greenhouse emissions. "The world needs more and better options for extracting the power and molecular value...
An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this image of the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009. Credits: NASANASA and SpaceX authorized an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22nd, to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program concept to boost the agency's Hubble Space Telescope into a greater orbit...
Classes of transcription clusters. Credit: Nature Communications (2022)Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke's 3rd law states that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Indika Rajapakse, Ph.D., is a believer. The engineer and mathematician now discovers himself a biologist. And he believes the charm of blending these 3 disciplines is crucial to unraveling how cells...
A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid blasts off on Monday.After NASA deliberately crushes a car-sized spacecraft into an asteroid the following week, it´ll be up to European Space Agency's Hera mission to investigate the "crime scene" and discover the secrets of these potentially devastating space rocks.NASA's Dual Asteroid Redirection...
