Scientists find a neurological synergy in explaining the processing of an optical illusion

A team of scientists has uncovered a neurological synergy that occurs in visual adaptation, a phenomenon…

Mechanical properties of viral DNA determine the course of infection

A new study reveals a previously unknown mechanism that governs whether viruses that infect bacteria will…

Amazon eyes Chilean skies as it seeks to datamine the stars

Amazon.com is in talks with Chile to house and mine massive amounts of data generated by the…

New Natural History Museum room honours Mary Anning

The room has been transformed in honour of pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning.

Gas-Granular Simulation Framework for Spacecraft Landing Plume-Surface Interaction and Debris Transport Analysis [STUB]

Abstract: The Gas-Granular Flow Solver (GGFS) multi-phase flow computational framework has been developed to enable simulations…

‘Farming the desert’

The nation is united behind drought-hit farmers, but some query the merits of "special treatment".

Scientists developing way of using waste plastic to create car fuel

Discarded plastic could be used to fuel cars in the future thanks to a ground-breaking process…

Study uses Herbarium samples to understand link between climate change and insect herbivory

When she set out to understand whether climate changes over the past century might be effecting…

Researchers expose the dirty secrets hidden under glaciers

UO researchers have found a way to account for how varying sediments underneath the world's glaciers…

A quantum gate between atoms and photons may help in scaling up quantum computers

The quantum computers of the future will be able to perform computations that cannot be done…