In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted manner. Despite decades of research, how synapses form during brain development ...

In every functional MRI scan, after the whir and pounding begins, there is a brief 10 to 20 seconds of stabilization as the ...

Unsplash Most people assume that because I’m a physics major, I’m a STEM major — but at this college, that acronym doesn’t ...

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...

Researchers engineered “gyromorphs,” a new type of metamaterial that combines liquid-like randomness with large-scale structural patterns to block light from every direction. This innovation solves ...

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary ...

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Look to the east after sunset on a clear winter night and you’ll spot a bright, tightly packed collection of stars. That’s ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought  — ...

BYU Physics professor Brian Anderson works with students to align loudspeakers in a sound experiment that used time reversal ...