2+ week, 4+ day ago   (106+ words) In a recent study of Black parents and their teens, Shardé McNeil Smith, a professor of human development and family studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, explored how parents’ levels of appropriated racism affected racial-ethnic socialization messages that affirmed…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (36+ words) FIG 1 (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Physical Optical Computing System and Its Digital Twin Credit must be given to the creator. More on this News Release Digital twin platform opens new path to faster, hardware-free optical computing development...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (122+ words) Credit: SPIE & M. Emre Celebi "The Journal of Electronic Imaging has a long, distinguished history spanning three and a half decades,” says Celebi. “I look forward to leading this journal and further enhancing its integrity, quality, scientific impact, and efficiency." Co-published…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (60+ words) Runaway Black Hole (IMAGE) EurekAlert! The rogue super-massive black hole compresses gas in its wake, forming a long “contrail” of young, blue stars. This unusual event happened when the universe was approximately half its current age. NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1067+ words) The near-Earth asteroid Apophis will make an extremely close flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029, at a distance of approximately 38,000 km—an event that occurs on average only once every 7,500 years, offering an unprecedented opportunity for planetary science and planetary defense....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (220+ words) A team of researchers found a naked photo-bombing comet in an image from publicly available archival data from the Subaru Telescope. The Subaru Telescope has produced a vast collection of publicly available images covering large areas of the sky. Although…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (703+ words) image: Led by Christopher Tunnell, associate professor of physics and astronomy, the researchers used a tiny floating magnet as a highly sensitive detector designed to register the faint push an ultraheavy dark matter particle could produce as it passed through....

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (96+ words) The spacing between the peaks shows how quickly the wave oscillates. How quickly the peaks shrink shows how fast the signal fades. Hidden matter around a black hole could change these two features by different amounts, giving scientists clues about…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (420+ words) image: False-color, infrared images from the JWST of dual LRDs created using images filtered at wavelengths 1.5 µm, 2.8 µm, and 4.4 µm. The white line in the lower right corner shows the length for about 5000 light years. view more Credit: COSMOS-Web / Tanaka…...