New 1.5-billion-pixel image shows Running Chicken Nebula in unprecedented detail
While many holiday traditions involve feasts of turkey, soba noodles, latkes or Pan de Pascua, this year, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is bringing you...
Snowflakes swirling in turbulent air as they fall through a laser light sheet
A winter wonderland calls to mind piles of fluffy, glistening snow. But to reach the ground, snowflakes are swept into the turbulent atmosphere, swirling through...
Filming the microscopic flow of hydrogen atoms in a metal
A group of researchers has created a simple and inexpensive means to visualize the atomic state of hydrogen. Details of their breakthrough were published in...
Ringing in the holidays with ringed planet Uranus
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently trained its sights on unusual and enigmatic Uranus, an ice giant that spins on its side. Webb captured this...
Exoplanets’climate — it takes nothing to switch from habitable to hell
The Earth is a wonderful blue and green dot covered with oceans and life, while Venus is a yellowish sterile sphere that is not only...
AI’s memory-forming mechanism found to be strikingly similar to that of the brain
An interdisciplinary team consisting of researchers from the Center for Cognition and Sociality and the Data Science Group within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS)...
Scientists measure the distance to stars by their music
For most of us, the countless bright spots in the nighttime sky all seem to be stars. But in fact, some of those spots are...