Researchers have applied a visualization technique to depict the brain's activity related to visual perception as geometric patterns. They visualized different shapes as the ever-changing neuronal ...

Human evolution has revolved around food, from identifying and foraging for it to growing and preparing it. Researchers have identified a region in the brain's visual cortex that responds to food and ...

Researchers have engineered groups of robots that behave as smart materials with tunable shape and strength, mimicking living ...

Two space debris-related events that occurred this week point to how routine rocket launches can leave their mark on Earth.

NASA and ESA are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially had a higher collision probability with Earth than the ...

The work could be a step toward understanding the effects behind the phenomenon of static electricity, in which electric charge accumulates on materials after they are rubbed or touched together.

The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

“Knowing if an object is familiar or new can determine everything from survival to day-to-day functioning, and has huge ...

Combining science literacy, data science, and hands-on learning helps get elementary students engaged in science lessons.

“It’s only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it’s really far away,” lead author Anniek Gloudemans of the National Science Foundation’s ...

“It’s only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it’s really far away,” lead author Anniek Gloudemans of the National Science Foundation’s NoirLab said in a ...

publishing a paper in Science Advances that describes a new kind of compact camera engineered for computer vision—a type of artificial intelligence that allows computers to recognize objects in ...