A ‘river’ of cosmic gas 1 trillion miles long sent planets in the Orion constellation into tilted orbits
A rare planet-forming disk around a young triple-star system in the Orion constellation has been tipped over by…
Study Deepens Understanding of Quantum Transport in Topological Materials
Insider Brief Researchers observed unusual quantum oscillations in the topological insulator ZrTe₅ that persist beyond the quantum limit…
In 1815, cats arrived on Ascension Island; they drove huge seabird colonies away until conservationists launched a cat-eradication mission | World News
A feral cat with a tipped ear, indicating it was neutered in a trap-neuter-return program. Images Credit: Brocken…
Monday’s Microscope Mystery: What Is This Pink And Red Oddity? : ScienceAlert
Happy Monday! Sometimes it’s nice to start the week by testing your eyes. Because even very ordinary things…
A pop-up tag on a pregnant porbeagle shark kept reporting for four days after it stopped moving like a shark — rising and falling through the water at a constant 22°C, five degrees warmer than the sea, from inside whatever had swallowed it
For months, the data looked like an ordinary shark. A pop-up satellite archival tag attached to a pregnant…
What Can We Actually Find on an Exoplanet? Part 1: The Atmospheric Fingerprint
In 1990, the Voyager 1 spacecraft, then six billion kilometers from Earth and destined to become humanity’s most…
Has vacuum birefringence been seen at long last? – Physics World
Has vacuum birefringence been seen at long last? – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from…
Officials urge action as dozens of storks electrocuted on Jordan Valley power lines
Carcasses and remains of some 30 white storks electrocuted on power lines were found Monday north of the…
Astronomers discover a black hole pretending to be a star
Astronomers have identified what they believe is an entirely new kind of astrophysical object: a “black hole star.”…
Dead trees, vanishing birds and barren riverbeds: How extreme heat will change the British landscape forever
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
Starwatch: Vega the bright star will light the way to the constellation of Lyra | Science
We turn our attention this week to one of the sky’s smallest constellations. High overhead from the UK…
Frame-dragging measurement around the Earth sets new precision record – Physics World
Frame-dragging measurement around the Earth sets new precision record – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more…