The Lab

02/07/2020

“The assumption has always been that the ancestral dinosaur egg was hard-shelled.”

30/06/2020

Teaching physics to neural networks enables those networks to better adapt to chaos within their environment.

Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that teaching physics to neural networks enables those networks to better adapt to chaos within their environment. The work has implications for improved artificial intelligence (AI) applications ranging from medical diagnostics to aut...

28/06/2020

Astronomy, Physics, Science.

  A new fast radio burst (FRB) appears like clockwork, seeming to follow a mathematical pattern, says Kiyoshi Masui, assistant professor of physics in MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research about a 16-day pattern of fast radio bursts reoccurring consistently over 500 days of ob...

26/06/2020

An extinct marine reptile has been found in the 68-million-year-old nearshore marine deposits in Antarctica.

24/06/2020

Periodic gamma-ray emissions from 11 active galaxies.

A Clemson University scientist has joined forces with an international team of astronomers to identify periodic gamma-ray emissions from 11 active galaxies, paving the way for future studies of unconventional galaxies that might harbor two supermassive black holes at their centers.

22/06/2020

“This is a proof-of-principal study."

Neanderthals mixed with humans a long time ago, but after they died out their DNA lived on in a large segment of the human population. A new study reveals that lab-grown brain tissue contains bits …

20/06/2020

XENON’s search for new physics.

XENON1T data could be either evidence of new particle physics or unexpected contaminant. The XENON1T detector, tucked into an Italian mountainside to search for signs of a mysterious substance in the universe called dark matter, has picked up a new bump in the data that cannot be explained by cur

20/06/2020

What if dying in real life worked exactly like it does in Borderlands 3?

As best we can guess, life started on planet Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. Unfortunately, so did death. And the reaper remains undefeated. About 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. There’s almost no scientific reason to believe humans won’t join them in a relatively i...

20/06/2020

A plan for an even better machine to succeed?

A technical and financial feasibility study could arrive in 2026

20/06/2020

A Helping Hand?

Starlink, of SpaceX, is a satellite constellation project being developed by Elon Musk and team to give satellite Internet go-to access…

20/06/2020

These winds are made from the star's outer layers...

Nearly 80% of the image is made up of active galactic nuclei — supermassive black holes actively gobbling up material at the center of galaxies.

20/06/2020

On May 30, SpaceX pulled off a historic launch.

They're putting the SpaceX spacecraft through its paces.