A new entrant in the space tourism market promises customers views of the Earth’s curvature from the comfort of a luxury cabin, lifted to the upper atmosphere with a giant… Read More »Space balloon company offers first look at luxury cabins
Collective dynamics are ubiquitous in the natural world. From neural circuits to animal groups, there are countless instances in which the interactions among large numbers of elementary units bestow surprisingly… Read More »Inferring the size of a collective of self-propelled Vicsek particles from the random motion of a single unit
An international team of researchers has conducted an extensive study of the impact of long-term space flight on the eyes and brains of astronauts. In their paper published in Proceedings… Read More »The impact of long-term spaceflight on cerebrospinal fluid and perivascular spaces in astronauts and cosmonauts
For such a small world, Pluto has stirred up a pretty big controversy. Discovered in 1930 by amateur astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto was long known as the solar system’s ninth… Read More »Let’s learn about Pluto
One of the most contentious questions in evolutionary biology is, how did the Amazon become so rich in species? A new study focused on birds examines how the movements of… Read More »Dynamic rivers contributed to Amazon’s rich bird diversity