Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map – and they believe it could lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark. The 3,000-year-old Babylonian artifact has puzzled archaeologists for centuries, but in recent weeks, experts have discovered the meaning. The clay tablet was discovered in the Middle East before being acquired by the British Museum … Read more
Alexander Maloney, an international leader in quantum information science, joins the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) this fall as the inaugural Kathy and Stan Walters Endowed Professor of Quantum Science. Maloney, a researcher investigating fundamental issues in theoretical physics and quantum information theory, comes to Syracuse from McGill University in Montreal. Alexander Maloney “I … Read more
A digital representation of a group of cell-penetrating peptides. Credit: Daryl Ariawan A new review of research on cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) clusters by scientists from Macquarie University and the University of Oxford will provide a roadmap for biomedical scientists to develop the next generation of treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Biological barriers such as … Read more
For the first time, scientists have filmed the process by which eggs are released from the ovaries during ovulation – and they’ve captured it in exquisite detail. In impressive new video, a mature mouse egg cell is explosively ejected from its fluid-filled sac – known as a follicle – into a laboratory dish. The team … Read more
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover took this image using its right navigation camera on sol 4343—Mars day 4,343 of the Mars Science Laboratory mission—on October 24, 2024 at 15:26:28 UTC. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Changes to the plan on Wednesday, moving the drive one sol earlier, meant that we started planning this morning about 18 meters (about 59 … Read more
Evidence suggests that Mars may have been teeming with life billions of years ago. Now cold, dry and stripped of what was once a potentially protective magnetic field, the Red Planet is a sort of forensic stage for scientists investigating whether Mars was indeed once habitable and, if so, when . The “when” question in … Read more
Remember that amazing ‘first image’ of the black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A) at the heart of the Milky Way? Well, that may not be entirely accurate, according to researchers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Instead, the accretion disk around Sgr A* may be more elongated than the circular shape we first … Read more
Whether it’s a one-night stand or a long-term relationship, infidelity has been the downfall of many relationships. But scientists say there is more than one way for someone to be unfaithful to their partner. In an analysis of more than 300 studies, researchers from Stony Brook University found three distinct forms of infidelity — most … Read more
Rodanthe in December 2023. Photo by Brad Hanson From CoastalReview.org The scientific panel that advises the state Coastal Resources Commission is showing in a new report how the findings of a 2022 federal report predicting sea level rise of more than a foot by 2050 apply to the Carolinas of the North. Released in mid-October, … Read more
A new non-peer-reviewed paper says that the equations of physics follow a formula of their own. The authors say their probabilistic idea can be used to help train physics machine learning. That said, their goals don’t match the actual use of AI. In a real head-scratcher, scientists have applied a word frequency theory to three … Read more