An international team of astronomers led by University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter.

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile, the researchers captured spectacular images around a distant young star for the first time in the form of scattered near-infrared light that revealed an exceptionally structured disk.

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that Professor Sung-Hoon Ahn's team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering has developed a novel auditory technology that allows the recognition of human positions using only a single microphone. This technology facilitates sound-based interaction between humans and robots, even in noisy factory environments.

The research team has successfully implemented the world's first 3D auditory sensor that "sees space with ears" through sound source localization and acoustic communication technologies.

The research findings were published on January 27 in the international journal Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Local weather alerts are familiar warnings for potentially dangerous conditions, but an alert that puts all of Earth on warning is rare.