The physics of no return: What actually happens if you get pulled into a black hole
In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used…
America’s nuclear spacecraft is heading to Mars, and it’s bringing helicopters
For decades, nuclear propulsion has been a fixture of aerospace engineering proposals and government studies, always promising, never…
When is a patient cured of cancer? It’s debatable.
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Death is not the end: What physics says about dying
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but…
Tony Blair: Antisemitism – The Challenge
If the arson attack on four ambulances run by a Jewish charity this week in London were an…
Distance in space is an illusion
Andromeda sounds far away because 2.5 million light-years sounds far away. It lands with authority. It feels exact.…
Lightning bolts on Jupiter are up to 100 times stronger than Earth’s
On Jupiter, a storm doesn’t just brew, it can simmer for centuries. The planet’s atmosphere is a perpetual…
Darkness can move faster than light without breaking relativity
A dark point inside a wave of light sounds like a contradiction. It is also something researchers say…
Our updated ECB call – MUFG Research
Our updated ECB call MUFG ResearchChristine Lagarde’s sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock The EconomistECB Shouldn’t Rush Its…
Study reveals how a promising bacterial therapy reduces recurrent bacterial vaginosis
A new study from the Kwon Lab at the Ragon Institute, published in Cell Host & Microbe, provides the most detailed…
New neural organoid system improves scalability and reproducibility for research
Neural organoids have been heralded as having huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the brain in several fields. These include exploring the responses of brain tissue to drugs,…
New method reveals hidden protein motions for improved drug design
For many of us “protein” is the key element of a food order. However, beyond your preferred choice…