A study of nearly 2,000 children found that those who reported playing video games for three hours per day or more performed better on cognitive skills tests involving impulse control… Read More »Video gaming may be associated with better cognitive performance in children, study suggests
Research has shown that the Skaftö wreck had probably taken on cargo in Gdansk in Poland and was heading towards Belgium when it foundered in the Lysekil archipelago around 1440.… Read More »Skaftö wreck’s cargo tells a tale of 15th century trade routes
Three international teams of researchers studying samples of gases recovered by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have published their results. The first studied the asteroid’s volatile sources… Read More »Analysis of gases recovered from asteroid Ryugu by Hayabusa2 spacecraft
Fruit (noun, “FROOT”) A fruit is the part of a flowering plant that contains seeds. Fruits play an important role in a plant’s lifecycle. First, fruits protect seeds — which… Read More »Scientists Say: Fruit
Simulating an asteroid impact on distant Pluto is all part of a typical day for Adeene Denton. The PhD student studies planetary geoscience at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.… Read More »This physicist hopes to shake up our understanding of space