Lost 8 Billion Light Years of Universe Evolution Revealed by Gravitational Waves
Every year, 2 million black hole mergers are missed — Australian scientists work out how to detect them, revealing a lost 8 billion light-years of…
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NASA Scientists Say Planets With Water Oceans and Active Volcanoes Common in the Galaxy
Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system,…
Stars Gone Haywire Revealed in Stunning New Hubble Space Telescope Images
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young…
Kohn Anomalies: Exotic Phenomenon Could Lead to New Quantum Devices
Exotic states called Kohn anomalies could offer clues to why some materials have the electronic properties they do. An exotic physical phenomenon known as a…
Chemistry Behind the Bombardier Beetle’s Extraordinary Firepower – “Fascinating Story That Nobody Has Been Able to Tell Before”
How the Beetle Got Its Bang If you want to see one of the wonders of the natural world, just startle a bombardier beetle. But…
NASA Mission to Investigate One of the Solar System’s Most Unusual Worlds: Neptune’s Strange Moon Triton
One of four concepts being considered for a Discovery Program mission, Trident would investigate one of the solar system’s most unusual worlds. When NASA’s Voyager…
Ceratopsian Dinosaur Mystery Solved – By Soft-Shelled Eggs?
New study suggests that hard eggshells evolved at least three times in dinosaur family tree. New research suggests that the first dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs…
Exotic Dark Matter Detector Deep in an Italian Mountainside Picks Up Unexplained New Signal
XENON1T data could be either evidence of new particle physics or unexpected contaminant. The XENON1T detector, tucked into an Italian mountainside to search for signs…
Bloody Good Look by Scientists May Have Profound Effects on the Use of Medicinal Leeches
Study offers new insights into the powerful anticoagulants contained in the saliva of leeches most often used in medical practice. The results of new research…
Origins Unknown: Astronomers Detect Regular Rhythm of Radio Waves From Outside Our Galaxy
A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source…
Tracking Gigantic Carnivorous Dinosaurs From Australia’s Jurassic Park
North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus – now evidence shows Australia had gigantic predatory dinosaurs. The…
DNA Shows Plants Are Extraordinary Chemists – Making Love and War
Gardenia’s newly sequenced genome highlights how evolutionary tinkering transforms plants into some of nature’s great chemical-makers. Plants are some of nature’s most extraordinary chemists. Unlike…
Old Assumption Invalidated: Controlling Fusion Plasma and Plasma Turbulence
After his PhD thesis invalidates an old assumption, Norman Cao wonders what’s next. “What are some challenges in controlling plasma and what are your solutions?…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Produces Detailed Mosaic of Nightingale Landing Site on Asteroid Bennu
This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 3, 2020. A total…
Order From Disorder: Harnessing Turbulence in Light to Create a High-Precision Laser
Using Turbulence to Generate Frequency Combs From Small Ring Lasers We’ve all experienced turbulent air and water, but did you know light can be turbulent…
Deeper Look at Dynamic Geological Processes Below Earth’s Surface With 3D Images
Geoscientists at The University of Texas at Dallas recently used massive amounts of earthquake data and supercomputers to generate high-resolution, 3D images of the dynamic…
A Remarkable Cosmic Baby Is Discovered – And It’s Brilliant
Astronomers tend to have a slightly different sense of time than the rest of us. They regularly study events that happened millions or billions of…
Supernova in a Lab: Mimicking the Cosmic Blast’s Splendid Aftermath
Nestled in the constellation Taurus, a spectacle of swirling cosmic gases measuring half a dozen lightyears across glows in shades of emerald and auburn. The…
