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A new AI-based approach for controlling autonomous robots satisfies the often-conflicting goals of safety and stability. In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, is charged with training young pilots to complete a seemingly impossible mission — to fly their jets deep into a r...

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Each summer, parts of the Arctic Ocean and peripheral seas lose their ice cover and bathe in ample sunlight. In this window of time, some of these open-water areas come to life with phytoplankton blooms so large and vivid they can be seen from space. The summer of 2020 has been one of those summers....

Nearly every summer, colorful blooms of phytoplankton flourish in the Baltic Sea. And nearly every summer, satellite images detect art-like patterns as the phytoplankton trace the sea’s currents, eddies, and flows. But like the whorls of fingerprints, no two phytoplankton blooms are exactly alike. T...

In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms. The Goldilocks zone typically refers to the habitable area around a star where conditions are right for the existence of liquid water and possibly life. But on Earth, the S...

Octopuses alternate between quiet and active sleep, with the latter resembling REM sleep. They change color and move subtly during this state, hinting at potential dream-like experiences. Octopuses are known to sleep and to change color while they do it. Now, a study published on March 25, 2021, in ...

A May phytoplankton bloom left its mark on Mid-Atlantic waters. Given adequate sunlight and nutrients, phytoplankton populations can multiply into blooms large enough to be visible from space. On the morning of May 18, 2021, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra s...

What Are Isotopes? A family of people often consists of related but not identical individuals. Elements have families as well, known as isotopes. Isotopes are members of a family of an element that all have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons. The number of protons in a nucl...

New Finding Could Help Inform How Zeolites Are Used in Carbon Capture and Storage First study to analyze the calcium isotope composition of zeolite minerals Bonding conditions between calcium and oxygen partition calcium isotopes Findings point toward developing a novel ‘geothermometer’ for investig...

EPFL scientists have developed a topology-based method that forces microwave photons to travel along a path, despite unprecedented levels of disorder and obstacles on their way. Topological insulators are materials whose structure forces photons and electrons to move only along the material’s bounda...

The pygmy zebra octopus can reproduce multiple times and is small, manageable, and ideal for lab studies, making it a new model for cephalopod research. For generations, scientists have relied on a handful of organisms to study the fundamentals of biology. The usual suspects—fruit flies, zebrafish, ...