The Potsdam Gravity Potato
Why do some places on Earth have higher gravity than others? Sometimes the reason is unknown. To help […]
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The Echoes of Hearts Long Silenced
By RON COWEN An artist and a historian used digital processing techniques to hear again to the pulses […]
A Meditation on the Art of Not Trying
By JOHN TIERNEY When you’re nervous, how can you be yourself? How you can force yourself to relax? […]
Study to Examine Effects of Artificial Intelligence
By JOHN MARKOFF A study hosted by Stanford University study will examine impacts on society, including on the […]
Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
By JOHN MARKOFF On the heels of his Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Microsoft co-founder launched the […]
In Video of Burning Match, the Eye Meets More
By JAMES GORMAN Three Stanford researchers, using so-called schlieren imaging, demonstrate the complexities of what seems like an […]
Is a Two-Degree Limit on Global Warming Off Target?
By JUSTIN GILLIS Science and observation have raised questions of whether the limit of a two-degrees Celsius temperature […]
Molecular Cloud Barnard 68
Where did all the stars go? What used to be considered a hole in the sky is now […]
The Infrared Visible Andromeda
This remarkable synthetic color composite image was assembled from archives of visible light and infrared astronomy image data. […]
Crystals on Mars
This extreme close-up, a mosaic from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the Curiosity rover, spans a […]