NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of the very cold clouds that house powerful thunderstorms within the Southern Indian Ocean’s newest tropical depression, number 10S. The depression quickly strengthened into a tropical storm and…
The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42, is one of the most easily recognisable and best-studied celestial objects. It is a huge complex of gas and dust where massive stars are forming and is the closest such region to the Earth. The glowin…
Some disorders of the brain are obvious — the massive death of brain cells after a stroke, the explosion in the growth of cells that marks a tumor. Other disorders, such as autism, schizophrenia and mental retardation show no physical signs of da…
TORONTO, December 22, 2010 − Research from York University is revealing which regions in the brain “fire up” when we suppress an automatic behaviour such as the urge to look at other people as we enter an elevator.
A York study, published …
Tropical Depression Five’s remnants continue to linger over Louisiana and Mississippi, and NASA satellite data continues to capture its cloud temperatures and extent. The slow moving remnants and an associated tropical air mass are expected to c…
Beleaguered luggage scanners at the nation’s airports may soon find help in a fast algorithm developed by scientists in Illinois. The algorithm also promises to speed delivery of images generated by computerized tomography in hospitals and industry. Computerized tomography is commonly used to create cross-sectional images from many individual slices ? or scans ? illuminated by X-rays.