This infographic highlights just how much data and how many images NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter has collected in its 23 years of work around the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
Microtomographic reconstruction of the head and limbs of the anterior trunk ("body") of the trilobite Protolenus (Hupeolenus) in ventral view. Credit: Arnaud Mazurier, IC2MP, Univ. Poitiers Researchers have described some…
Antikythera mechanism. Credit: National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece Techniques developed to analyze the waves in space-time detected by one of the most sensitive pieces of scientific equipment of the 21st…
Construction of compact behavioral programs. (A) Top: The strategy space for solving a task can be large, with many strategies achieving sufficiently good performance. Bottom: Examining the relationships between strategies…
Artist's impression of the bright core region of a quasar, an active galaxy. The supermassive black hole at the center is surrounded by a bright disk of gas and dust.…
Conceptual image of the formation of quantum bipolarons. The blue spheres represent the positively charged ions in the lattice of the material, and the two red dots are the Cooper…
The main technique Mistele used in his research, gravitational lensing, is a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. As part of the study, Mistele plotted what is called…
Atomic resolution structural model of bacteriophage T4. Credit: Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, Ph.D. drvictorpadillasanchez.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 There's a lot of science news in seven days, so just because a new…
The experiment was depicted by drawing an interferometric pattern of a Sagnac fiber inside a magnifying insert starting from a local position (Vienna, Austria) on the rotating Earth. Two indistinguishable…
A simulation of a possible explanation for the velocity of the L subdwarf, called CWISE J124909+362116.0, shows it as part of a white dwarf binary that ended with the white…