Black hole jets may decide the fate of entire galaxies
Galaxies can contain hundreds of billions of stars, but every one of those stars begins with cold, dense…
All of a flutter: how butterflies avoid being a predator’s lunch | Animal behaviour
Naturalists have long wondered how brightly coloured butterflies manage to evade the attention of birds that make a…
Chemists find a safer way to create carbenes
There’s now a safer way to make cyclopropanes—three-carbon rings—thanks to a new reaction that generates carbenes from…
Two million people in England unaware their properties are at risk of flooding | Flooding
More than two million people in England are unaware their properties are at risk of flooding, as the…
Think lens flare is bad? James Webb Telescope image captures warping light that duplicates galaxies
NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency), the operators of the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), have released…
Charles Black Leads C2QA Research on Scalable Quantum Computing
Insider Brief Charles Black, director of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), is applying decades…
Meet the world’s smallest deer: The tiny ‘Pudu’ is barely four apples tall, weighs only a few kilograms and lives in South America’s forests
Guinness World Records lists the northern pudu as the smallest deer species.Guinness World Records lists the northern pudu…
Antarctica’s ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won’t save it – that’s bad news for low-lying coastal areas elsewhere
Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal…
Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’ | Antarctica
Antarctica’s winter sea ice has peaked at its third-lowest level on record, falling a million square kilometres –…
A Cold War Spy Satellite Named After Farrah Fawcett Just Blew Apart in Orbit
An American spy satellite unexpectedly shattered into pieces, creating a cloud of debris in low-Earth orbit. The U.S.…
A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar
Astronomers have long relied on brief bursts of gamma rays to identify collisions between neutron stars. These flashes…
Whale carcass to remain on Perth beach overnight as efforts to remove it fail
An enormous whale carcass will remain at Perth’s City Beach overnight after a day-long effort to remove the…