Device tracks house appliances through vibration, AI To boost efficiency in typical households—where people forget to take wet clothes out of washing machines, retrieve hot food from microwaves and turn off dripping faucets—Cornell University researchers […]
One theory beyond the standard model could allow wormholes that you could actually fly through Wormholes are a popular feature in science fiction, the means through which spacecraft can achieve faster-than-light (FTL) travel and instantaneously […]
Earth’s First Animals Kept in Touch Through Complex Networks of Strange Filaments Ancient fern-like creatures known as rangeomorphs might not have been as lonely as we once imagined. Filaments discovered in half-a-billion year old rocks […]
New coronavirus may spread through poop Wash your hands after using the bathroom. The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which has now infected nearly 76,000 people, spreads mostly through respiratory droplets and contact with infected patients. But […]
Capturing alien comets: Simulating rogue bodies on their journey through the solar system There should be interstellar comets hiding in our solar system after making a journey of many light-years. Maybe we have already seen […]
Jupiter-sized exoplanet discovered through microlensing The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, and a massive body can therefore act like a lens (a “gravitational lens”) to distort the image […]