The brain’s rules seem simple: Fire together, wire together. When groups of neurons activate, they become interconnected. This networking is how we learn, reason, form memories, and adapt to our world ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...

"The model is DolphinGemma, a cutting-edge LLM trained to recognize, predict, and eventually generate dolphin vocalizations, in an effort to not only crack the code on how the cetaceans communicate ...

Fungi are master engineers capable of building vast networks underground. Now, researchers have harnessed their capabilities to create a living building material that could be a sustainable ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body using the world’s most powerful telescopes. It was found to be ...

Grabbing a coffee cup seems easy. But you need to be able to move your hand, stretch it out, and keep it steady. These movements are difficult for people with Parkinson’s disease. The disorder eats ...

DESI's 3D map of our universe. The Earth is at the central vertex, and every dot is a galaxy. DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Share The great ...

Dr. Shyam Balaji is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Physics, King's College London. He is an Australian theoretical physicist researching astroparticle physics and cosmology, and ...

Dr. Adam Deller is an astrophysicist whose research is concerned with the physics of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes). Dr. Deller studies this area primarily through observations with ...

Chris Carter is an analyst at RAND Europe. Working within the Science and Emerging Technology team, his focus is space policy. He specializes in quantitative data analysis and data visualization, and ...

Virginia L. Trimble is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. She studies the structure and evolution of stars, galaxies, and the universe, and of the ...