Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center. Sutter is also host of the podcasts Ask a Spaceman and RealSpace, and the YouTube series ...
When humans make decisions, such as picking what to eat from a menu, what jumper to buy at a store, what political candidate to vote for, and so on, they might be more or less confident with their ...
Recent evidence suggests that neurons in primary sensory cortex arrange into competitive groups, representing stimuli by their joint activity rather than as independent feature analysers. A possible ...
No matter what you're doing right now – sitting, standing, walking – you're moving. Specifically, you're moving at least four different ways. First, Earth is spinning around on its axis at about 1,000 ...
Somewhere in the far reaches of space lies an object that is pulling everything, including our galaxy, towards it with a gravitational force equivalent to a million billion suns. When it was ...
Scientists studying space uncover the colossal gravitational anomaly, The Great Attractor, pulling galaxies at 600 km/s. The unseen force is located in the Zone of Avoidance, hidden by our galaxy and ...
When we observe an ambiguous image such as the ones below, our percept tends to flip sporadically between different interpretations of the image. For each percept the neural activity is in a ...