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…
Scientists Reprogram How Light Travels in Just 74 Femtoseconds
Researchers have shown that nanoscale silicon structures can amplify an otherwise weak optical effect enough to control light…
Giant Crocodiles Once Preyed on Massive Mammals in South America
Paleontologists have uncovered the first direct physical evidence that colossal prehistoric crocodiles hunted large plant-eating mammals in what…
‘Especially Exciting’: JWST Finds Water Surviving Surprisingly Close to Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole : ScienceAlert
At the center of our galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole: a ravenous object capable of devouring matter…
New York’s largest landfill sent 65 million gallons of waste into drinking water sources, report says
A New York landfill produces more than 65 million gallons of leachate a year, and that waste travels…
SpaceX closes $60bn acquisition of AI coding agent Cursor
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has completed its $60bn acquisition of AI coding agent Cursor, a deal the company has…
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…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion
The James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged planetary nebula NGC 2392, which is nicknamed the Lion Nebula due…
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…