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Why does this brown dwarf have such strangely red skies ?
Brown dwarfs straddle the line between stars and planets. This one caught researchers' attention for its extremely red appearance. Turns out its atmosphere is laden with dust.
February 7, 2014
A uniquely human brain area?
It's called the ventrolateral frontal cortex. It's a part of the brain involved in human processes, such as strategic planning and multi-tasking.
February 6, 2014
NASA spacecraft spots new crater on Mars
Cosmic paintball! NASA image of dramatic new impact crater on the planet Mars.
February 6, 2014
Hearing improves after a week of blindness
A study suggests that the loss of one sense - vision - can improve another sense - in this case, hearing - by altering the brain circuit.
February 6, 2014
MIT theorists predict new forms of exotic insulating materials
Topological insulators could exist in six new types not seen before. The results could help provide insights into quantum physics.
February 6, 2014
How your memory rewrites your past
Your memory isn't like a video camera. Instead, your memory plucks fragments of the present and inserts them into the past to create a story to fit your current world.
February 5, 2014
Kepler discovers a wobbly planet with weird seasons
On Earth, the cycle of precession lasts 26,000 years. The planet Kepler-413b precesses, or wobbles, wildly on its spin axis, in a cycle of only 11 years.
February 5, 2014
View from space: Site of Superbowl XLVIII
A satellite view of the Meadowlands in in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It's the Superbowl's first northern, cold-weather venue.
February 1, 2014
NASA to create the coldest spot in the universe aboard the ISS
The researchers plan to study matter at 100 pico-Kelvin. At such low temperatures, ordinary concepts of solid, liquid and gas are no longer relevant.
January 31, 2014
Coral reef discovered off Greenland
By sheer coincidence, researchers have discovered a reef of living cold-water corals in southern Greenland.
January 30, 2014
