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These jets can be hundreds of thousands of light years long, and emit powerful radio signals that can be heard by receivers billions of light years away. Norris and his team think that they've found ...
This is the second episode of Inside Science Conversations that features Dr. Phil Skiba. In episode one, Skiba described how he went from wanting to be an astronaut to helping top athletes excel ...
A mystery that captivated the internet has a simple answer. At least, that’s what Colgate says ...
The 2021 Nobel Prizes In Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry ...
Scientists set out to investigate how these unusual structures form.
But even the high-tech e-skins have a downside: Many of them aren't sweat proof. A person wearing the e-skin might be able to get away with light sweating, as the sweat would vaporize quickly, but the ...
First-of-its-kind study shows how human-generated sound could harm the ability of seagrass to store energy and detect gravity.
Coronaviruses have been around for decades, but it was the COVID-19 pandemic that many of us heard about coronaviruses for the first time. The strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is just one of ...
(Inside Science) -- Megan Povey has spent half a century building a reputation as a food physicist. She has shown how sound waves can be used as a tool to study food properties, to test food quality ...
(Inside Science) -- Artificial intelligence can design computer microchips that perform at least as well as those designed by human experts, devising such blueprints thousands of times faster. This ...
Spring is a particularly tricky time for long-term weather forecasting. From October data, meteorologists can make pretty accurate predictions for the winter. But using April data to predict summer ...
Plate tectonics is the process responsible for continental drift, most earthquakes and volcanoes, and potentially even the long-term habitability of the Earth (thanks to the process's role in ...