2+ hour, 29+ min ago  (612+ words) In an eerie new study, scientists have analyzed the brain activity of mice and used it to reconstruct videos of what the mice had seen. The team, led by researchers at University College London (UCL), measured which individual neurons were…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (644+ words) Physicists in the US say they have created a simulation that, for the first time, demonstrates "ideal glass" is possible, resolving a decades-old paradox. In some ways, the kind of glass you drink iced water from has more in common…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (765+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. In 2023, an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn't actually painted by Raphael. The face in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (771+ words) Using a powerful AI tool, astronomers have combed through vast troves of data from NASA's Hubble and found over 1,300 cosmic anomalies, more than 800 of which are new to science. The new research by David O'Ryan and Pablo Gomez from ESA…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1919+ words) Here are the answers to the festive maths quiz set on December 23. I hope you enjoyed it. Puzzle 1: You are given nine gold coins that look identical. You are told that one of them is fake and that this coin…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (431+ words) The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating cultural shifts in its seemingly simple motifs, a new study reveals. The decorated pottery marks an early appreciation of the artistic value of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1104+ words) Mathematics is a "science which requires a great amount of imagination", said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya Kovalevskaya " a pioneering figure for women's equality in this subject. We all have an imagination, so I believe everyone has the ability…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (290+ words) New evidence confirms a long-held theory that people with schizophrenia hear 'voices' in their heads by misattributing inner speech as external. "This idea's been around for 50 years, but it's been very difficult to test because inner speech is inherently private,…...

5+ mon, 1+ day ago  (601+ words) Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye. In 2023, an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn't actually painted by Raphael. The face in…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (386+ words) Engineers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have developed an artificial neuron like no other. In experiments, their newly created model was able to directly communicate with a biological neuron in a remarkably lifelike, 'quiet' way. The 'cell'-to-cell flow…...