Searching for Cosmic X-Ray Signposts of Elusive Continuous Gravitational Waves
In the last few years, astronomers have achieved an incredible milestone: the detection of gravitational waves, vanishingly weak ripples in the fabric of space and…
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Gravitational Wave Events With Split Personalities
Deep Follow-up of GW151226 — an ordinary binary or a low-mass ratio merger? Now that we’ve been detecting gravitational waves (GWs), we’d like to better…
Supermassive Black Holes: The Ultimate Snitches Giving Away Galactic Center Secrets
The Universe contains different “flavors” of black holes. While “stellar” mass black holes are 10-50 times the mass of our Sun, supermassive black holes are…
World-First Antibody-Drug Delivery System Developed Using Supercharged Man-Made Crystals
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a man-made crystal that can be attached to antibodies and then supercharge them with potent drugs or…
Anti-Aging: Scientists Discovered an Enzyme That Is Key to Why Exercise Improves Our Health
Uncovered: Key to How Exercise Protects Against Consequences of Aging Monash University, Australia scientists have discovered an enzyme that is key to why exercise improves…
Explaining “Invisible” Black Holes: How Stellar Winds Can Create Disks Around Black Holes
The first evidence of the existence of black holes was found in the 1960s, when strong X-rays were detected from a system called Cygnus X-1….
Weak Supernova Explosions From Isolated Stars
Many of the heaviest stars in the Universe will end their lives in a bright explosion, known as a supernova, which briefly outshines the rest…
Stellar Contradiction: Solar Systems Like Ours May Be Quite Rare
How common is our Solar System? Less common than we might think. A significant fraction of planetary systems around Sun-like stars have had a very…
Investigating the Spins of Binary Black Hole Mergers To Uncover How They Formed and Evolved
With the growing catalog of binary black hole mergers, researchers can study the overall spin properties of these systems to uncover how they formed and…
Land Ahoy: First Continents Bobbed to the Surface of Earth 500 Million Years Earlier Than Thought
Most people know that the land masses on which we all live represent just 30% of Earth’s surface, and the rest is covered by oceans….
Increased Temperatures Contributed to More Than 200,000 Cases of Kidney Disease in 15 Years in Brazil Alone
World’s largest study of the impact of temperature changes and kidney disease reveals that 7.4 percent of all hospitalizations for renal disease can be attributed…
New Way Discovered To Increase the Effectiveness of Antibiotics Against “Superbugs”
A multi-disciplinary project driven by EMBL Australia researchers at Monash University and Harvard University has found a way to make antibiotics more effective against antibiotic-resistant…
Bayesian Inference for Gravitational Waves From Binary Neutron Star Mergers in 3G Observatories
In the 2030’s, gravitational-wave detectors will be thousands of times more sensitive than Advanced LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. The network of “third generation” (3G) observatories…
Greenery May Be the Secret to Slowing the Biological Aging Process – At Least for Women
We all know being surrounded by greenery is good for the mind and soul, but can it be good for the body, too? Planetary health…
How Do Bats Resist COVID? Insights Could Lead to New Treatments for Humans
Using bats’ responses to SARS-CoV-2 may provide key insights into therapies for COVID-19. A paper published in the prestigious journal, Science Immunology, explores the idea that…
A Quarter of Stars Like Our Sun Eat Their Own Planets
How rare is our Solar System? In the 30 years or so since planets were first discovered orbiting stars other than our Sun, we have…
Breakthrough Discovery Could Pave the Way for Effective New Non-Opioid Painkillers
Researchers unlock the key that could lead to the development of non-opioid painkillers to treat chronic pain. Monash University researchers have made a breakthrough discovery…
More Than 47,000 Brazilians Hospitalized Every Year From Exposure to Wildfire Air Pollution
Largest and most comprehensive study to date of the health effects of wildfires in Brazil reveals the serious health consequences of this burning, linking exposure…
