Study provides new insights into how our visual memories are stored. A team of scientists has discovered how working memory is “formatted”—a finding that enhances our understanding of how visual memories are stored.    “For...

A new technique could enable a robot to manipulate squishy objects like pizza dough or soft materials like clothing. Imagine a pizza maker working with a ball of dough. She might use a spatula...

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s carbon fiber blades can be seen in this video taken by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of...

Schematic representation of the peopling of Eurasia through repeated waves of expansion from an out of Africa population Hub (grey-shaded area, precise location is not known); the red arrows represents the expansion associated with...

HD1, object in red, appears at the center of a zoom-in image. Credit: Harikane et al. Shining only ~300 million years after the

A new study of black-handed spider monkeys in Panama shows that they seek out and eat fruit that is ripe enough to have fermented, containing as much as 2% ethanol. The results shed light...

Artist’s conception of a quantum circuit. Making Quantum Circuits More Robust Researchers have developed a technique for making

By NASA April 7, 2022 An orbital sunrise is pictured from the space station beaming across Earth’s horizon revealing the silhouetted clouds above the South China Sea. Credit: NASA The seven-member Expedition 67 crew...

By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 1, 2022 A new way to make carbon fiber could turn refinery byproducts into high-value, ultralight structural materials for cars, aircraft, and spacecraft. As the...

The crew consisting of pilot Larry Connor of the United States, commander Michael López-Alegría of Spain and the United States, and mission specialists Mark Pathy and Eytan Stibbe from Canada and Israel. Credit: Axiom...