Looking for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries with a Flash of Starlight
Most galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center, but some galaxies have two. These supermassive binaries…
This Creature Could Be the Last Species to Go Extinct on Earth
On a bad day for the planet, the first signs would look ordinary at first. A bright streak…
500,000 Abandoned U.S. Coal Mines to Become Giant Underground Water Batteries With a New Storage Method
Beneath parts of the Appalachian Mountains, thousands of mine shafts still descend deep into the earth. Some of…
Meet Chrysalis, the 36-Mile Interstellar Ship Designed to Carry 1,000 Humans Beyond Earth… Forever
For decades, most spacecraft carrying humans have been little more than compact capsules or orbital laboratories. Crews rarely…
1,000x more efficient tabletop laser could power future nuclear clocks
Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new type of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is…
Endangered lion cubs and young rhino to leave Fota park
Three Asiatic lion cubs born in Fota Wildlife Park are to leave their east Cork home for Wingham…
A Massive 92-Foot Dinosaur Buried for 147 Million Years Was Accidentally Unearthed Beneath a Construction Site
Construction workers in the Tongnan District of southwestern China expected to spend their day pouring concrete for a…
East Mids woman makes horrifying find after bin men ‘refused to collect rubbish’
Holly Laing from Northampton said she was storing bin bags in her shed after her wheelie bins were…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS packed with alcohol stuns astronomers: Here’s what its alien chemistry could reveal about planet formation |
Astronomers have spotted something unusual in a comet passing through our Solar System. 3I/ATLAS, only the third confirmed…
Quantum spin study reveals a previously unknown state of matter
At temperatures approaching absolute zero, most magnetic materials settle into tidy patterns. Their tiny magnetic moments, or spins,…
A red fox somehow slipped onto a cargo ship that traveled from Southampton, England, to New York.
NEW YORK — This stowaway truly was sly as a fox. A red fox somehow slipped onto a…
A Team Strapped a UV Camera to a Minivan and Caught Trees Glowing Like Fireflies During Thunderstorms for the Very First Time
For the first time ever, scientists have captured on camera the ghostly ultraviolet light emitted by trees during…