[ad_1] A new global study of ancient Martian river beds shows that they are on average larger than the rivers of the Earth and that they previously transported large volumes of water and runoff. They also sank astonishingly recently in the history of Mars, perhaps even in the last billion years. This is a headache, … Read more
[ad_1] This site may generate affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The ESO (European Southern Observatory) announced the successful observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. This is the first time that an exoplanet is seen in this way and this technique offers a promising example of how we could … Read more
[ad_1] If you like big things, the Trias can be done for you. Dinosaurs have not only evolved to dominate the world, but some have occurred on a geological entity 15 times larger than any modern equivalent. A vast deltaic plain at the edge of the North Ocean covered more than 1% of the Earth's … Read more
[ad_1] GERMANY – NASA is willing to pay participants around $ 19,000 to spend two full months watching television in bed. The German Aerospace Center will select 24 participants who will remain asleep during a 60-day observation period at rest. NASA researchers are studying the effects of "artificial gravity" on the body to determine if … Read more
[ad_1] The mighty Jupiter draws a lot of attention for his ever-changing face, but it's not the only planet in our solar system to have a serious personality. Neptune, the big ball of frozen methane and various other icy gases that lie outside our system, is surprisingly active, and the Hubble Space Telescope just surprised … Read more
[ad_1] Mars is terribly cold and dry now, with a thin atmosphere. But today's rivers were twice as wide as the Earth, and they sank later than expected in the history of the planet, researchers said Wednesday University of Chicago. The new discoveries complicate the situation for other scientists who are trying to understand the … Read more
[ad_1] It was supposed to be a historic week for NASA, with the first exit in the space reserved for women, initially scheduled for Friday. Unfortunately, a last-minute exchange resulted in the replacement of one of the expected participants, Anne McClain, by her compatriot Nick Hague. NASA's explanation was that McClain would not have a … Read more
[ad_1] A soft robot, attached to a balloon and immersed in a transparent column of water, dives and surfaces, then dives and rises to the surface, like a fish chasing flies. Soft robots have already done this kind of trick. But unlike most software robots, this one is manufactured and operated without hardware or electronic … Read more
[ad_1] Hallucinogens could change the way the brain draws signals, according to scientists who administered a psychoactive substance to mice. After administering a drug similar to LSD to the mice, the researchers were surprised to find that the latter reduced the activity of their visual cortex: a part located at the back of the brain … Read more
[ad_1] A physics student explains to El Reg how she developed a machine learning code for the planet An illustration of the Kepler Space Telescope Machine learning algorithms were used to discover two previously unpublished exoplanets in the data archives collected by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope at retirement. Launched in 2009, Kepler was sent to … Read more