Our Galaxy swallowed another galaxy shortly after the Big Bang. And scientists just found the smoking gun
Our home Galaxy the Milky Way wasn’t always been a majestic spiral galaxy containing of hundreds of billions…
Colliding molecules reveal their ‘cone of reaction’ – Physics World
Colliding molecules reveal their ‘cone of reaction’ – Physics World Skip to main content Discover more from Physics…
Country diary: Ten tonnes of solid muscle, basking sharks are booming here once again | Environment
Not long ago, my encounters with basking sharks were pretty close up. When a scientist researching them off…
Stellar spin explains fading black hole light flares
A hydrodynamical simulation of a star being ripped apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole.…
Baffin Island’s ancient ice cap, a frozen relic older than civilization, ran out of snow in the middle of summer for the first time ever recorded
For thousands of years, the Barnes Ice Cap has held its ground on Baffin Island — a remnant…
New Solar System Models Show Earth Is No Fluke
Over the last three decades, computer models of forming planetary systems have gone from being fairly crude replications…
Want to muck around with a real quantum computer? Now you can
Quantum computers are expected to transform many facets of science and industry over the next decade or so…
In 1944, 29 reindeer were left on a remote island in Alaska, decades later, they had eaten themselves into extinction
What happened to the reindeer on St. Matthew Island is a classic story of wildlife boom and bust.…
Why scientists are stoked about mysterious black hole stars : Short Wave : NPR
Little red dots in images of the early universe have stumped astronomers over the last few years. Astronomers…
In China first, project breathes new life into ageing wind turbines
China has launched its first batch-scale remanufacturing project for retired wind turbines in Jiuquan, Gansu province, as an…
Astronomers found a ‘mega Earth’ that shouldn’t exist. This alien world is breaking the rules of planet building
When astronomers peer into space to observe planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System – known as exoplanets…
University from world’s second-richest country named global best for optics
It achieved a perfect subject score of 100, ranking ahead of China’s Zhejiang University in second place and…