In science, a variable is something that can be changed, measured or controlled in an experiment. Scientists look at variables to understand how they affect things. A variable is any one of the things ...

Researchers have discovered more than a hundred new eclipsing binary stars and observed hundreds more variable stars in an innovative survey using NASA’s two STEREO solar satellites. A team from the ...

The extensive duration and coverage of the data set allows the astronomers to search for variability in the eclipse timings of these systems as well. A third star in the system will periodically pull ...

Back in 2013, Charles Hoeffer from the University of Colorado Boulder was studying memory and learning in mice. He was looking at a specific protein in the brain called AKT1, which helps mice forget ...

Suppose you are about to meet a person for the first time and want to predict that person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in a variety of settings over the next several years. What single piece of ...

We talk a lot about quantum computation and quantum key distribution here at Ars, but when we do this, we're usually talking about a discrete logic system. That is, the quantum system uses a set of ...

A flickering cosmic mirage, recorded for the first time in X rays, promises to provide a new estimate of how rapidly the universe is expanding. The mirage is generated by gravity. A single source of ...