Articles of interest from across the scientific community.
Theoretically, sky gazers might soon be able to bend light using the Sun’s gravity in order to see distant exoplanets …
Much like a bat tracing its local surroundings, researchers are using X-ray echoes to better understand a black hole’s evolution …
Solar energy, captured with silicon cells, may now be better caught with lower-cost, lightweight, and flexible perovskite cells …
We all judge by appearances. Deep learning neural networks can now do the same. They can also create faces viewers will find outgoing, dorky, or smug …
Paleo cinema club: In ambient light conditions, cave art was placed next to hearths for the fire to bring engravings to life …
Picture yourself in a boat on a river. Easy for some. Physiological evidence for aphantasia has been detected in pupillary reflexes …
By studying ice in Greenland, researchers have formed a hypothesis for pockets of water beneath a Jovian moon’s icy surface …
After three years of maintenance, the quest to refine physics has restarted at the Large Hadron Collider. Let the protons fly …
How do supermassive black holes grow so fast? Astronomers have identified a rapidly expanding black hole that holds clues …
When the internet was young, Pattie Maes created software that recommended sci-fi novels. In so doing, she planted the seed of social media …
A vague retort from Cicero in his De Officiis treaty has long stumped historians. Archaeological metallurgists might have now deciphered it …
Chiral enhancement in the production cross sections of massive gravitons puts them forward as sub-MeV dark matter candidates …
For the first time, sky gazers have observed a star enter a Maunder Minimum–like period of low magnetic activity. Stars need vacation too …
Whether Tom or Garfield, or Snowball I or Snowball II, a cat’s name counts. All the more so since their feline friends will remember it …
Let there be rice! Husk-scavenging scientists have created LED lights from recycled rice, in an eco-friendly approach to luminescence …
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