An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.
Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals — not the signals themselves.
The Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero crater in 2021 and has already found some clues to the planet's past.
The breakthrough robot swarms function as both the builders and final products.
A trio of new studies using data from NASA's Perseverence rover confirm that Jezero Crater on Mars was once habitable.
Earth can correct its climate over eons, scientists say; sadly, it doesn't work fast enough to stop climate change
SeedLab’s experiment will test how enzymes can break down plastic, and then how bacteria can turn it into a new material.
Reference genomes used to direct the gene editor fail to account for human diversity
FRIDAY, Nov. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It’s sort of like the Goldilocks principle — a room that’s either too dry or too humid can influence transmission of COVID-19 and cause more illness or death, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say.
Study in cells and mice suggests that the variant APOE4 affects the all-important insulation around nerve cells.
Wildfires are a major source of air pollution. They are also predicted to worsen as climate change progresses.
A new stick-on ultrasound patch can record the activity of hearts, lungs and other organs for 48 hours at a time
It's called a neural acoustic field model, and it can also consider what noises would sound like as you traveled through virtual reality.
Your voice could help doctors diagnose everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease to depression.
Here’s another paper with a reaction that would have looked like magic to me back when I first learned organic synthesis. The Wendtland group at MIT details a way to change tertiary carbon stereochemistries, flipping them/scrambling them through the use of a photochemical decatungstate-catalyzed radical reaction.
Like many of the world’s best and worst ideas, MIT researchers’ plan to combat AI-generated deepfakes was hatched when one of their number watched their favorite not-news news show.
A small study of people with a rare disorder that prevents them from processing protein is an early attempt at creating “living” medicines.
Nuclear fusion scientists have developed a machine learning model to automatically spot and keep track of blobs of plasma that form inside nuclear reactors, paving the way to a better understanding of how plasma behaves.