Smithsonian Magazine

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 ...

Study compares machine learning models of raindrop formation

Raindrops form inside clouds when tiny particles of water collide and stick together, forming larger droplets that eventually ...

AI system translates protein sequences into text, helping reveal functions of unknown proteins

In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Technion and Tel Aviv University ...

Few Composers Can Sell Out Arenas. He’s One of Them.

Joe Hisaishi got famous writing the soundtracks to Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli films. Now he is focusing on his first love ...
Nature

Eutrophication: Causes, Consequences, and Controls in Aquatic Ecosystems

Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the world. Why should we worry about eutrophication and how is this problem managed? Eutrophication ...