Pipe Organ-Like Volcano Music Could Help Scientists Forecast Impending Eruptions
Scientists heard the low-frequency music while analyzing the eruption of the Cotopaxi volcano in the Andes in 2015.
This Artificial Intelligence Program Can ‘Look’ Into Future, Predict Action Minutes Ahead
The technology predicted future action with high levels of accuracy when compared to other action predictive systems.
The Nightlife Of Animals: Human Activity Is Making Wildlife More Nocturnal
The shift could allow humans and animals to coexist on a crowded planet, but there could be consequences for wildlife in the future.
NASA Successfully Tests Technology To Retrieve Samples From Other Planets
The technology could enable future missions to retrieve samples from distant planets for analysis on Earth.
Dark Matter Doesn't Cause Disorderly Movement Of Stars In Dwarf Galaxies: Study
The new theory behind the disorderly motion could even apply to dwarf galaxies lurking around spiral galaxies like Andromeda.
Eruption Material From Supermassive Black Hole’s Violent Encounter With Star Directly Imaged
Supermassive black holes are known to devour everything with their powerful gravitational tug – a fact that spelled doomed fate of the stellar body.
MIT’s Artificial Intelligence System Can Detect People’s Postures, Movements Through Walls
The neural network uses radio signals to produce an active stick-like figure demonstrating the movement performed on the other side of a wall.
Neutron Star Mergers Cause Short Gamma-Ray Bursts, Study Confirms
Gamma-ray bursts release narrow beams of electromagnetic radiation and can emit sun’s entire life’s energy in a matter of few seconds.
Ceres' Surface Could Have Much More Organic Material Than Previously Thought
The researchers compared the data from NASA's Dawn mission with a new standard to determine how much organic material could be there on the surface of the planet.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Used To Be Smaller, But Recovered
Scherer and a team of researchers from Columbia University and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany worked separately to delve into the history of Antarctica, but surprisingly, they all came to the same conclusion.
Three Newborn, Dust-Cloaked Planets Found Orbiting Young Star 330 Light-Years Away
The researchers observed a star which is twice as big as our sun, but a thousand times younger.
NASA Sued Over Vial Of Moon Dust Gifted By Neil Armstrong
She claims her father, an Army pilot during World War II, got the vial from Armstrong, who was his friend.
Remains Of Ancient Galactic Mergers Discovered In Milky Way Halo
The research team found these merger relics in the second set of data from ESA's Gaia space observatory, which mapped millions of stars in the Milky Way.
Ancient Peruvian Doctors Were Proficient At Performing Skull Surgeries, Study Finds
The survival rate of their patients was twice more than those who underwent surgeries during the American Civil War.
Low-Oxygen Ocean Dead Zones Could Make Marine Life Extinct, Study Shows
The research team used a past extinction event from Earth's history to show how the planet would respond to climate change.
Cosmic Diamond Particles Causing Mysterious Milky Way 'Glow'
Ever since the faint glow was first detected 20 years ago, scientists have posited multiple theories to explain how the peculiar stream of microwaves, known as anomalous microwave emission or AME, is formed.
Interstellar Dust Remains From Early Solar System Found In Comet Particles
The dust, identified in particles collected from Earth’s atmosphere, is believed to have come from comets that came to be in the outer regions of the so-called solar nebula, where the chaotic formation of our Solar System’s planets took place.
Speech-To-Song Illusion: Why Spoken Phrase Sounds Like Music After Several Repetitions
Musicians used this illusion in an artistic way even back in the 60s, but scientists started investigating it only decades later.
Magnetic Fields In Space Explain Unusual Structure Of ‘Pillars Of Creation’
The latest findings from James Clerk Maxwell Telescope also provide new insight into the process of star-formation.
NASA Holds Off Opportunity Rover Operations Amid Massive Dust Storm On Mars
Dust storms like the one Opportunity faces at present are not surprising but infrequent on Mars. They can start out of nowhere and continue for days or maybe even months.
Mars’ Volcanic Past Hints Red Planet Was Icy Cold Billions Of Years Ago
The researchers looked into the data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to suggest that volcanism under glacial environments might have created the flat-topped volcanic mounds found on Mars.
Over 600GB Of Highly Sensitive US Navy Data Compromised In Chinese Hack: Report
The data stolen included information related to undersea warfare and plans of a supersonic anti-ship missile, which is currently in the works.
Largest Ever Iceberg Recorded In Antarctica Disappearing, Photograph By ISS Astronaut Shows
18 years ago, B-15 was nearly as big as the US state of Connecticut, covering 11,000 square kilometers.
Plastic Pollution: Toxic Chemicals, Microplastics Found In Remote Antarctic Waters
This is one of the first detailed reports that reveal the true scale of plastic pollution in the Antarctic waters.
Intelligent Insect? Study Shows Honeybees Get The Notion Of Zero
In the study, the bees demonstrated the capacity to associate nothing with zero.
This Technology Can Suck Carbon Dioxide From Air, Transform It Into Fuel
The work revolves around a technology called direct air capture wherein multiple giant fans are used to draw and convert ambient air into low carbon fuel.
Russia Teaming Up With China For Moon And Deep Space Exploration
The agreement was announced following the talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday.
Ancient Saber-Toothed Predators Identified From Pre-Jurassic Era Fossils Discovered In Russia
While one of the species was a wolf-sized carnivore, the other was a bit smaller, long-snouted animal with extremely sharp needle-like teeth.
Milky Way’s Disc Much Bigger Than Previously Thought, Study Reveals
The researchers conducted a statistical analysis to discover the position of stars indicating the size of our galaxy's disc.
Earth-Sized Rocky Exoplanets, Super-Earths Discovered In Two Star Systems
The distant exoplanets were identified in the data gathered by the K2 mission of NASA’s Kepler satellite.