The giant black hole studied, known as 'J2157', was discovered by the same research team in 2018. New research led by the Australian National University (ANU) has revealed how massive…
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Most current strategies assume a language with a structure based on sound units. When linguists approach an unfamiliar language, dividing spoken phrases into repetitive sound units is the first…
Having the insight and honesty to say that you are ignorant or inexperienced on a topic is more common among intelligent people.
A recent study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology supports this popular idea: that…
A glove that can translate sign language into speech in real time via a smartphone app has been developed by bioengineers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
The details of…
The world is not just zeros and ones. We should not always face problems in a dichotomous or Manichean way. In fact, many complex problems (there are many variables), changing, lysological (difficult to define or conceptualize…
Every day more than 17 million lightning bolts strike the Earth; 200 per second. Lightning is an electrical discharge of up to 30 million volts, enough to provide light to a city of 200,000 inhabitants for one minute. Reach…
Using the University of Hawaii's Lu'ukai remotely operated vehicle, an expedition to the western Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) aboard the RV Kilo Moana in 2018 identified several new species at 4.5...
The director of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, has admitted that the number of Americans who have been infected with coronavirus is probably 10 times higher than…
425 million high-resolution images of the Sun and 20 million gigabytes of data have been summarized in [this splendid video] (NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)) courtesy of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) …
With 5 million square kilometers, with a small part today emerged and mostly under the South Pacific, this old continent called Zealandia can now be explored through detailed maps.
The maps, prepared by GN…