News
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Neural-learning ventures
Sets of neurons may modify their activity in several ways to facilitate a basic type of learning.
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Dancing with feeling
Indian classical dance provides a new way for scientists to explore cross-cultural understanding of emotions.
- Planetary Science
X rays reveal Eros’ primitive nature
Aided by a blast of X rays from the sun, a spacecraft orbiting the near-Earth asteroid 433 Eros has gathered preliminary evidence that the rock is a primitive relic, apparently unchanged since the birth of the solar system.
- Physics
Light pulses flout sacrosanct speed limit
Faster-than-light firsts: Restless laser pulse leaves before it arrives, while merging microwaves send out a superluminal scout.
