A treadmill that trips you… for science
As part of research on how to make better prosthetic legs, Vanderbilt University engineers put people on a treadmill and made them stumble. Over and over. By better...
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Finding exoplanets with rich biodiversity
Scientists will have to revise their estimates of the number of planets outside our solar system, which can maintain the rich biodiversity that we are familiar with on Earth,...
The hunt for inhabited planets in the Alpha Centauri system
A new exoplanet search tool mounted on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile begins 100-hour observations of the nearest Alpha...
Anomalies in the thermal radiation of the universe
The polarization map of the CMB, the most ancient light emitted only 380,000 years after the Big Bang, did not reveal the mysterious cosmic anomalies appearing on the...
Radio emission from a plasma bridge connecting galaxy clusters
Observing two merging clusters of galaxies Abell 0399 and Abell 0401, a billion light-years away from Earth, astronomers recorded radio emission from a plasma bridge...
Ring around a black hole in the center of the Milky Way
Using an array of ALMA radio telescopes, astronomers were able to view a disk of cold interstellar gas encircling a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, as...
The mystery of a galaxy without dark matter is revealed
Galaxy NGC1052-DF2, which, as previously thought, is devoid of dark matter, turned out to be quite a common object, fitting into standard models and containing the usual...
Are Probiotics Actually Helpful Or Just Hype? A Microbiologist Explains The Science
Are Probiotics Actually Helpful Or Just Hype? A Microbiologist Explains The Science
13 Science-Backed Reasons To Lace Up For Global Running Day
There are too many benefits not to.