Budapest — The CERN Council on Friday approved an update to the European Strategy for Particle Physics, setting out priorities for the next decades of research and confirming plans for a possible new collider. The…
Software Detects Eye Diseases using Smartphone Camera
[caption id="attachment_5575" align="alignright" width="300"] The software will reduce costs and streamline the Mexican health system. With just having the app on the cell phone and focusing the camera on the eye, immediate results will be…
Oxymoronic Black Hole Provides Clues to Growth
[caption id="attachment_5572" align="alignnone" width="985"] A Sloan Digital Sky Survey image of RGG 118, a galaxy containing the smallest supermassive black hole ever detected. The inset is a Chandra image showing hot gas around the black…
Music Accelerates Neurodevelopment of Teen Minds
[caption id="attachment_5566" align="alignright" width="300"] School music practice should not be eliminated at budget cutting time, says new study. (Image: Wikimedia)[/caption] In teens, band practice enhances the brain’s ability to process sound better than ROTC training,…
Comet’s firework display ahead of prihelion
[caption id="attachment_5560" align="alignnone" width="625"] Outburst in action[/caption] In the approach to perihelion over the past few weeks, Rosetta has been witnessing growing activity from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, with one dramatic outburst event proving so powerful that…