F our years after a dead body was found inside a barrel with a bullet hole in its skull at Lake Mead, Las Vegas police have identified the victim as Edward "Buddy" Lelburian Jackson. How authorities identified the body in a barrel at Lake Mead At a media conference on October 15, Las Vegas authorities […]
I n 1873, the renowned Argentine sailor Luis Piedra Buena led an expedition across one of the world’s most dangerous stretches of water. The expedition was bound for the Isla de los Estados, which sits off the very southern coastline of Patagonia . Traveling aboard the schooner brig “Espora”, the team were hoping to hunt […]
D oes your cat actually improve your quality of life? It’s a question many cat owners will enthusiastically answer in the paws-ative, while dog people look on with scepticism. Some research does offer evidence for this claim, but it’s inconsistent. Other research, for example, suggests the opposite – that owning a cat can have negative […]
T he human brain is such an efficient computer that our best efforts with wires and silicon haven’t come close to matching it. But what if we could harness the power of the brain within a machine? Brain-inspired computing seeks to do just that, and scientists attempts to build computer systems that work in a […]
N eutron star collisions are pretty important in the universe, and, perhaps surprisingly, also in our everyday lives. A substantial fraction of heavy elements that regulate functions in our bodies, as well as precious and rare metals, are formed when two of these extraordinarily dense objects merge into one. According to a new paper currently […]