Through November 1, students can submit their ideas for naming the Red Planet rover currently known as Mars 2020. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Pathfinder. Opportunity. Curiosity. NASA’s iconic Mars
rovers have a history of lofty names. But for the Mars 2020 rover, that iconic
name is still missing. Now students have a chance to be a part of the naming
process by submitting their name ideas.
U.S. students in grades K through 12 are eligible to enter their ideas in the “Name the R ...read more
Earth seen from space. NASA.
There isn't another planet in the solar system like Earth. If you were an alien explorer coming into our neck of the galaxy, you'd find a system with four large gas giants, lots of small, rocky objects without much other than rocks, a few larger rocky objects with some ice and four rocky objects with reasonable atmospheres.
A cursory scan of the surface of those last objects would find that two of the four are covered almost entirely in basalt -- an iron and m ...read more
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It’s no surprise that English sounds different than Japanese. Different characters, syllables and grammatical rules are just the tip of the iceberg for what sets these languages apart. But there is one commonality between the two: The amount of information a native speaker will convey in a given amount of time is almost exactly the same.
In a report published today in Science Advances, researchers found that, across 17 different languages, roug ...read more
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In American football, players repeatedly suffer major blows to the head. As a result of these repeat hits, many athletes suffer from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that manifests as depression, dementia, aggression and suicidal behavior years to decades after the trauma.
But the researchers behind a new study say that a single traumatic brain injury can also have lasting consequences on brain health. A team of scient ...read more
Roland Griffiths (left) and Matthew Johnson (right) (Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine)
The launch of a new privately-funded research center dedicated to investigating the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs was announced today at Johns Hopkins University.
The Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research will be dedicated to understanding how psychedelics alter consciousness, behavior and brain function. The bulk of the research will focus on psilocybin, the active ingredient in ...read more
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