Switching On One-Shot Learning in the Brain
Most of the time, we learn only gradually, incrementally building connections between actions or events and outcomes. But there are exceptions—every once in a while, … Read more
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Cake or Carrots? Timing May Decide What You’ll Nosh On
When you open the refrigerator for a late-night snack, are you more likely to grab a slice of chocolate cake or a bag of carrot … Read more
Remembering Don L. Anderson
Don L. Anderson, the Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, passed away on December 2, 2014. He was 81 years old. Anderson’s … Read more
Watching black holes merge
Unusual Light Signal Yields Clues About Elusive Black Hole Merger The central regions of many glittering galaxies, our own Milky Way included, harbor cores of … Read more
What would the birth of a black hole look like?
A new kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen before: the birth of a black hole. When a massive star exhausts its fuel, … Read more
Hunting Massive Stars with Herschel
In this new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, the Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born. Herschel … Read more
Caltech chemists think they’ve cracked photosynthesis
Chemists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory believe they can now explain one of the remaining mysteries of … Read more
Skin cancer treatment may get a big boost
A new study of genetically modified immune cells by scientists from UCLA and the California Institute of Technology could help improve a promising treatment for … Read more
Biologists find skin’s ‘massage’ neurons
The skin is a human being’s largest sensory organ, helping to distinguish between a pleasant contact, like a caress, and a negative sensation, like a … Read more
Mystery cloud near galaxy core hints at how how stars are born
It’s the mystery of the curiously dense cloud. And astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are on the case. Near the crowded galactic … Read more
Estimate puts at least 100 billion planets in galaxy
Look up at the night sky and you’ll see stars, sure. But you’re also seeing planets—billions and billions of them. At least. That’s the conclusion of … Read more
