CLIMATE | Melting of Arctic mountain glaciers unprecedented in past 4 centuries: study
Arctic mountain glaciers are melting faster than at any time in the past 400 years because of rising summer temperatures, a new study found.
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SCI-TECH | AI models can help unravel mystery of human brain
Cognitive neuroscientists are using the newly-developed artificial intelligence networks to enhance the understanding of one of the most elusive intelligence systems from which they learned: the human brain.
CAR TECH | Self-driving vehicles cause higher stress levels to passengers than regular cars: study
Traveling in vehicles with self-driving technology is experienced as more stressful by passengers than journeys with regular cars, a study published by the Kempten University of Applied Sciences finds.
SCI-TECH | Electrons capable of changing orbits: global study
A team of international scientists including Australians have observed electrons outside of their regular orbit for the first time.
SPACE | Neutron star emitting ultra-bright X-rays found pulling more matter than expected
An international team of astronomers found new evidences that a few ultraluminous X-ray (ULXs) sources, glowing with X-ray light equal to the total output at all wavelengths of millions of suns, are relatively small neutron stars.
SPACE | Moon emerges from cloud of vaporized Earth rock: study
A new theory about the origin of the moon has suggested that the moon was not spun out of the aftermath of a collision, but emerged from a seething, donut-shaped cloud of vaporized rock inside the Earth.
SPACE | Massive galaxies are being wiped out by voracious black holes: studies
Two independent studies show that the biggest black holes in the universe are growing faster than the rate of stars being formed in their galaxies, meaning that at last the voracious black holes may disappear those massive galaxies.
SPACE | American telescope sets to be renewed to solve mystery of dark energy
A 45-year-old telescope in the United States is set to create the largest three-dimensional map of the universe, which could help to solve the mystery of dark energy that is believed to drive the accelerating expansion of the universe.
SPACE | Farthest ever images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft 6 billion km away
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that its New Horizons spacecraft has recently taken the farthest ever images from Earth.
SPACE | The sun to be cooler by 2050: study
Based on the cooling spiral of recent solar cycles, scientists from University of California, San Diego believe the next “grand-minimum” is just decades away, during which the sun will be 7 percent cooler.