One of the wolves, named Aino, waiting in the test apparatus. Contrary to expectations, dogs and wolves performed equally well on the cooperation task. Credit:…
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The physical process driving Gamma-Ray Bursts might be synchrotron radiation after all. A new analysis of Fermi/GBM archival data of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the most…
Dogs use facial expressions and body language to communicate with conspecifics and humans. Credit: Sylvio Tüpke The first comprehensive study of the human ability to…
A string of modern ostrich eggshell beads from eastern Africa. Credit: Hans Sell New archeological analysis challenges long-standing hypotheses about ostrich eggshell beads and the…
First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genome. Expansions of DNA repeats are very hard to analyze. A method developed by researchers…
Penning trap system of the BASE Collaboration. Credit: Stefan Sellner, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan Researchers now harnessing antimatter in their search for dark matter.…
TXS 0506+056. The neutrino event IceCube 170922A appears to originate in the interaction zone of the two jets. Credit: © IceCube Collaboration, MOJAVE, S. Britzen,…
In satellite images, the algae carpets with their light streaks look like works of art. In the 70,000 square kilometre wide Deutsche Bucht alone, algal…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, together with colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencein Israel have developed a computational…
An ancient gas cloud discovered by a team led including recent Carnegie-Princeton fellow Eduardo Bañados and Carnegie’s Michael Rauch and Tom Cooper formed just 850…
Topological quantum states in graphene induced by light. Credit: © Benedikt Schulte Discovering ways to control the topological aspects of quantum materials is an important…
Dense connectome from the mouse cerebral cortex, the largest connectome to date. Neurons in the cortex, densely reconstructed from 3-D electron microscopy data. Credit: Reprinted…
This image shows our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, observed in series of exposures with all seven eROSITA telescope modules taken from 18 to…
The researchers propose a new instrument for searching dark matter axions using tunable plasmas. Illustration: Alexander Millar/Stockholm University Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max…
Food for young twin stars: Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system Stars are born in the midst of large clouds…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this unprecedented image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing, feeding with material from their…
Neuroscientists provide striking results that suggest the brains of children likely do not thin as much as expected. Using state-of-the-art brain imaging techniques, Vaidehi Natu…
A black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion, viewed within their orbital plane. Powerful radiation and the pulsar’s “wind” – an outflow of high-energy…
Wheel mounting in seconds: as soon as a non-uniform electric field is switched on, the chassis of a microvehicle pulls its own wheels into wheel…
If the orbit of an extrasolar planet is aligned in such a way that it passes in front of its star when viewed from Earth,…