Human impacts on reef systems; testing AI systems; a woman with perfect memory
Credit: Fabien Vivier, HawaiÊ»i Institute of Marine Biology Marine Mammal Research Program The week in science: UK fishermen…
Ceres may have had long-standing energy to fuel habitability
Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these enhanced-color renderings that use images from NASA’s Dawn mission. New thermal…
Falling water forms beautiful fluted films
Using hollow tubes of varying diameters and high-speed imaging, KAUST researchers captured the hidden shapes of the thin…
Streams of gas might lead to the rapid formation of high-mass stars
The dust emission of the high-mass star forming region G336.018-00.827 ALMA1 at radio wavelengths. The star symbol indicates…
Spectral bats greet each other with ‘hugs’ and share food, video study reveals
Social roosting of the spectral bats (Vamyprum spectrum). Credit: Marisa Tietge, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The world’s largest carnivorous…
Bonobos can mentally track multiple members of their social circle
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first…
Lessons from cave bear extinction could save endangered bears
Credit: University of Central Lancashire Lessons from extinction could help protect the bears of today. New research reveals…
Simple additive method leads to record-setting perovskite laser performance
Suppressing Auger recombination for high-performance perovskite VCSELs. Credit: Xingliang Dai / Zhejiang University For years, engineers have sought…
Room-temperature reactor uses electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
The Thunderbird Reactor is a custom-made, bench-top-sized particle accelerator and electrochemical reactor built by an interdisciplinary team at…
Deep beneath the French Alps, scientists hunt for dark matter
A DAMIC-M detector module with four CCDs. The module is enclosed in a high-purity copper frame for installation…
Where are the interstellar objects 1I/’Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/Atlas headed now?
Artist’s impression of Ê»Oumuamua. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs)…
Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old
This speleothem is covered by younger layers, the youngest of which is dated to 228 ± 1 ka…