Learning to identify new objects reshapes parts of the brain, research finds

The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world ...
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Special relativity can warp chemical bonds – now we've seen it happen

An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein’s special relativity ...

Google AI Models Explained: Gemini, Veo, Nano Banana & More

Learn what Google’s major AI models do, including Gemini, Veo, Imagen, Nano Banana, Gemma, Lyria, Chirp, and Gemini Nano.

Japan and China just flew past asteroids. Here's what they saw.

Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has a close encounter with a peanut-shaped asteroid, Torifune. Credit: JAXA / The University of ...
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New Images Reveal That This Asteroid Is Actually Two Conjoined Space Rocks. They Form a Peanut-Shaped Object Called a ‘Contact Binary’

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...