Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...

"The model is DolphinGemma, a cutting-edge LLM trained to recognize, predict, and eventually generate dolphin vocalizations, in an effort to not only crack the code on how the cetaceans communicate ...

Fungi are master engineers capable of building vast networks underground. Now, researchers have harnessed their capabilities to create a living building material that could be a sustainable ...

Grabbing a coffee cup seems easy. But you need to be able to move your hand, stretch it out, and keep it steady. These movements are difficult for people with Parkinson’s disease. The disorder eats ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body using the world’s most powerful telescopes. It was found to be ...

Chris Carter is an analyst at RAND Europe. Working within the Science and Emerging Technology team, his focus is space policy. He specializes in quantitative data analysis and data visualization, and ...

Theodora Ogden LLM MSc is the 2022 Fellow at the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University. She is currently on secondment from her role as a defense and security analyst at RAND Europe, ...

Billy Bryan is the evaluation and research leader in the Science and Emerging Technology team at RAND Europe. He has seven years of experience in studies and evaluations with specific focuses on space ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

DESI's 3D map of our universe. The Earth is at the central vertex, and every dot is a galaxy. DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor Share The great ...

Virginia L. Trimble is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. She studies the structure and evolution of stars, galaxies, and the universe, and of the ...

Vicent J. Martínez is a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Valencia. He was the director of the Observatory Astronomical for 11 years. He researches cosmology, particularly ...