Scientists gain new insights into how mass is distributed in hadrons
Scientists can determine the mass of subatomic particles that are built from quarks by looking at the particles' energy and ...
Scientific American17h
The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...
Why you need to see a total solar eclipse before you die
Science journalist David Baron is an umbraphile, an eclipse chaser. He says a solar eclipse is the ultimate experience of awe ...
Nature14h
How human brains got so big: our cells learned to handle the stress that comes with size
Understanding how human neurons cope with the energy demands of a large, active brain could open up new avenues for treating ...
Science Daily12h
Scientists discover 'entirely unanticipated' role of protein netrin1 in spinal cord development
Researchers have uncovered a surprising new role for netrin1, a crucial protein in neural development, as a regulator that limits bone morphogenetic protein signaling in the developing spinal cord.
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One million years of heavy rain triggered Earth's era of dinosaur dominance
Imagine a world where continents are fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it is on the brink of ...