A few weeks ago we had a story (third item) about a piece of space jetsam that attempted to return peacefully to Earth, but found a Florida family’s roof roughly in the way. The 700-gram cylinder of Inconel was all that remained of a 2,360 kg battery pack jettisoned from the ISS in 2021, with … Read more
Resume: Researchers found that a specific brain region, the mediodorsal thalamus, can cause feelings of paranoia. Aligning data from studies in monkeys and humans, they found that lesions in this brain region led to erratic behavior and increased perception of the volatility of the environment. The study provides a new framework for understanding human cognition … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! by Tejasri Gururaj, Phys.org An illustration of electron-phonon coupling between valence and conduction states in momentum and real space. Credit: Cmelni/Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_Phonon_Coupling_Between_Valence_and_Conduction_States.png. × close to An illustration of electron-phonon coupling between valence and conduction states in momentum and real … Read more
Another day, another crop of newly minted minimal astronauts, as Blue Origin’s New Shepard made a successful suborbital flight this week. Everything seemed to be going according to plan, at least until the end, when an “unexpected event in the foliage” made the astronaut’s exit a little more complicated than usual. The New Shepard capsule … Read more