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Ranga Dias, a physicist who faced a public reckoning over accusations of research misconduct, is no longer employed by the University of Rochester, a spokeswoman for the institution said Tuesday. … Read More
Summary: Hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin learn critical skills like hunting, gathering, and childcare by age six or seven, thanks to a unique social learning environment. Unlike Western societies, … Read More
Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, have developed an intriguing computer model to understand how light and matter interact. As tasks go, it is exceptionally hard, but the team … Read More
General relativity has passed one of its most precise tests ever thanks to observations of the past 11 billion years of cosmic evolution collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, … Read More
Summary: A new study suggests that individual cells may exhibit learning-like behaviors, previously thought exclusive to organisms with nervous systems. Researchers used computational modeling to show how biochemical circuits within … Read More
The International Space Station (ISS) was repositioned on Tuesday, November 19, to move it well out of the way of approaching space debris, NASA reported. Station operators fired the thrusters … Read More
One of the most reliable meteor showers to light up our night sky each year begins tonight. The annual Geminid meteor shower runs from Nov. 19 through Dec. 24, with … Read More
The frozen cub not only provides the first look at what a saber-toothed cat looked like in real life, Reynolds notes, but also represents a life stage that paleontologists know … Read More
NEW YORK (AP) — Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they thought. Astronomers know that the universe … Read More
NASA, along with its industry and international partners, is preparing for sustained exploration of the lunar surface with the Artemis campaign to advance science and discovery for the benefit of … Read More
