An Alternative to Black Holes: Gravastars with Big Bangs Inside
One foundational part of astrophysics concerns how stellar mass black holes form. When a star several times more…
Difficult childbirth is not unique to humans, study finds
The tight fit of a baby’s head through a mother’s birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth,…
Ozone loss was a thing even before CFCs were widely used
Current satellite data measures ozone separately in the lower, middle, and upper stratosphere, and model simulations help scientists…
2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Super-Simple Laser Precision For Your Stargazing
Perhaps the hardest thing for amateur astronomers just starting out is finding the things you want to look…
An integrated theoretical and numerical approach to understand modern experiments on quantum magnetism
Haldane, F. D. M. ‘Luttinger liquid theory’ of one-dimensional quantum fluids. I. Properties of the Luttinger model and…
Africa’s pygmy falcon barely leaves home while breeding
Picture a bird of prey and your mind goes big. Eagles riding the thermals high over a ridge.…
Rivers in the sky over Antarctica, captured in 3D
image: Researchers develop a new 3D method that can accurately detect Atmospheric Rivers and how they influence snowfall…
‘Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions’ takes space exploration in a different (and friendlier) direction, and we chatted with System Era’s creative director about it (interview)
Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions might look like a direct sequel to Astroneer on the surface, but it’s a space…
Temporally super-resolved dispersive Fourier transformation spectroscopy
Maiuri, M., Garavelli, M. & Cerullo, G. Ultrafast spectroscopy: state of the art and open challenges. J. Am.…
When a shark bites down on a hagfish, the fish floods its attacker’s mouth with slime in a fraction of a second, clogging the predator’s gills until it gags and lets go
A hagfish looks like easy prey. It is a soft, eel-shaped, jawless fish with no scales, no bony…
Humanity’s Plan for First Contact: Who Speaks for Earth
What happens if scientists find evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence? That question was at the center of a recent…
NASA to launch rescue mission June 30 to save Swift space telescope from burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
An air-launched Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket is scheduled to fly for the very last time early Tuesday…