Numerical simulation of the neutron stars merging to form a black hole, with their accretion disks interacting to produce electromagnetic waves. Credit: L. Rezolla (AEI) & M. Koppitz (AEI & Zuse-Institut Berlin) Researchers have advanced in finding out how to utilize ripples in space-time considered as gravitational waves to peer back to the beginning of...
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...
Can't Hear You Have you ever struggled to be listened over the noise of street construction? That makes you not all also distinct from dolphins, heartbreaking new research suggests. Released lately in the journal Current Biology, a recent paper out of the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys studied a pair of dolphins named Delta...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A group of scientists at the College of St Andrews, in the United Kingdom, collaborating with a colleague from the College of Portsmouth, also in the United Kingdom, has performed tests in young kids and chimpanzees to learn more regarding when attention changing develops in human beings. In their paper released...
Iniopera reconstruction. Credit: Richard Dearden / University of BIrmingham A rare three-dimensional fossil of an ancient chimera has revealed new hints of the diversity of these creatures in the Carboniferous time, some 300 million years ago. Ancient chimera A research study led by the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the University of Birmingham revealed an ancient...
(Shubhangi Ganeshrao Kene/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Alagille syndrome is a potentially deadly genetic disorder that affects numerous organs and systems, most notably the liver. Currently, there's no known treatment for it-- however, researchers have now identified a potentially effective therapy. Called NoRA1, the newly developed drug targets the Notch pathway, a cell-level signaling system in the...
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...
Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft carrying the crew of Russian cosmonauts launched September, 2022. (NataliaKolesnikova/ AFP) Russia stated Wednesday that it will send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) coming month to bring home 3 astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a strike from a small meteoroid. The Russian space company, Roscosmos, made the...
Boudinage in brecciated dolostone rocks of the Panamint Range (Wildrose Area, Death Valley National Park). New research shows that periclase is stronger than bridgmanite in the earth's lower mantle, analogous to boudins developing in rigid ("stronger") rocks among less competent ("weaker") rocks. Credit: Jennifer M. Jackson, Caltech As you are reading this, more than 400...
Making History Elon Musk is currently officially a Guinness World Record holder … for the most quantity of money a single human has lost, ever. His net worth plummet of $182 billion since November past year has currently made the controversial business magnate the record holder for the "biggest loss of individual fortune in background." That figure...
