We are given this strange and fleeting gift: to live in a world where everything breathes and breaks at once. We walk through seasons of laughter and shadow, through the rise and fall of days that do not ask for... Continue Reading →
How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth --... Continue Reading →
Flavoured drinks without sugar can be perceived as sweet – and now researchers know why. A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, published in the journal Nature Communications, reveals that the brain interprets certain aromas as taste. When we eat... Continue Reading →
Unique physical properties of materials have been the center of interest in material science community. Among them, quantum materials have recently garnered growing attention, because of their unprecedented physical properties governed by photon-like electrons. We have synthesized a series of... Continue Reading →
Ingredients of our daily diet – including caffeine – can influence the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. This has been shown in a new study by a team of researchers at the Universities of Tübingen and Würzburg led by Professor Ana... Continue Reading →
On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to reach us at the speed of light—but... Continue Reading →
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Without them, the world is a tangle of disconnected moments, beautiful, yes, but also frightening in its formlessness. A story gives shape to that chaos, a thread we can follow through the... Continue Reading →
Cutting off blood flow can prematurely age the bone marrow, weakening the immune system's ability to fight cancer, according to a new study from NYU Langone Health. Published online August 19 in JACC-CardioOncology, the study showed that peripheral ischemia-restricted blood flow in... Continue Reading →
The dark, inner shadow of planet Earth is called the umbra. Shaped like a cone extending into space, it has a circular cross section most easily seen during a lunar eclipse. And on the night of September 7/8 the Full Moon passed near the... Continue Reading →
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