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New research reveals that the brains of both sighted and blind individuals adapt similarly when learning to use sound echoes for navigating the world without vision. This groundbreaking study, published in Cerebral Cortex, is the first to use MRI scans…
Enlarge / The core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket rolls aboard a barge that will take it from New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (credit: NASA) Welcome to Edition 7.03 of the Rocket Report! One…
Enlarge (credit: Kevin Purdy) Let me get three negative points about the Gazelle Eclipse out of the way first. First, it’s a 62-pound e-bike, so it’s tough to get moving without its battery. Second, its rack is a thick, non-standard…
A beaked whale that recently washed up dead on a New Zealand beach likely belongs to the world’s rarest cetacean species. If confirmed, researchers could dissect the species for the very first time.
Do dead stars glow? A strange gravitational phenomenon could be generating enormous amounts of light around neutron stars, new research suggests.
A new study from Stanford Medicine introduces a groundbreaking method that combines brain imaging with machine learning to identify subtypes of depression, known as “biotypes,” and tailors treatments accordingly. Published in Nature Medicine, the research categorizes depression into six distinct…
“This very arid soil houses a treasure,” ecologist María Fernanda Pérez told Live Science after the Atacama Desert produced a rare winter bloom.
Boundless premieres tonight, taking Vision Pro users on a hot air balloon ride in Turkey. [credit: Apple ] Today, Apple announced a slate of more than a dozen upcoming Immersive Videos for its Vision Pro spatial reality headset. The first,…
Enlarge / Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the “Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health,” in Dirksen building on May 23,…
The HBO Original Series Dune: Prophecy will premiere this November. Fans of director Denis Villeneuve’s epic two-part film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune have no doubt been curious about the upcoming HBO Max series, Dune: Prophecy. It’s a prequel series…
