The pursuit of a cure for Alzheimer’s disease is becoming an increasingly competitive and contentious quest…
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Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
Aperiodic tiling, in which shapes can fit together to create infinite patterns that never repeat, has…
Star Trek’s planet Vulcan found to not be a planet after all
A large international team of space scientists has discovered that the detection of an exoplanet orbiting…
Astronomers Uncover Black Hole Closer to Earth Than Ever Before
Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii reveals first dormant, stellar-mass black hole. Astronomers have discovered the closest…
The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist
Giant, mature galaxies seem to have filled the universe shortly after the Big Bang, and astronomers…
Physicists give the first law of thermodynamics a makeover
West Virginia University physicists have made a breakthrough on an age-old limitation of the first law…
Incredible Footage Shows Planets Circling a Star Light-Years Away
A new video shared on YouTube is one of the most amazing things we’ve ever seen…
Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses to Alzheimer’s Again And Again
A study of around 500,000 medical records has suggested that severe viral infections like encephalitis and…
This Asteroid Has Survived For 4 Billion Years. That Could Be a Huge Problem
A vast amount of rocks and other material are hurtling around our Solar System as asteroids…
Neural Prosthesis Uses Brain Activity to Decode Speech – Neuroscience News
A newly developed machine learning model can predict the words a person is about to speak…
Mathematics at the speed of light
Researchers at AMOLF, University of Pennsylvania, and City University of New York (CUNY) created a nanostructured…
Finally, a Fast Algorithm for Shortest Paths on Negative Graphs | Quanta Magazine
Researchers can now find the shortest route through a network nearly as fast as theoretically possible,…
An enormous Martian cloud returns every spring. Scientists found out why.
What’s causing this natural wonder on the Red Planet? Read more at Mashable…
The Sun isn’t a typical star in the Universe
Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary, typical, unremarkable star. But science…
Scientists develop a cool new method of refrigeration
Adding salt to a road before a winter storm changes when ice will form. Researchers at…
Mysterious Patterns in Temperatures Detected on Jupiter
Based partly on data from generations of NASA missions, including NASA’s Voyager and Cassini, a 40-year…
A Planet Is About To Be Obliterated By Its Own Sun
A gas giant exoplanet is about to be destroyed by its own sun. Here’s what we…
New study confirms light from outside our galaxy brighter than expected
Scientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two…
Physicists measure the fine structure constant directly for the first time – Physics World
New technique could lead to clearer tests of whether this fundamental constant is truly constant. Read…
Webb Completes its First “Deep Field” With Nine Days of Observing Time. What did it Find?
The JWST Deep Field contains over 100,000 galaxies. Astronomers identified four that were the first ones…