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Tea drinkers, you were right: it's not the same if you microwave it.
Supermassive black holes sat at the centre of active galaxies could have company. Binary pairs of these titanic cosmic objects could merge to form a more monstrous black hole. Observational methods are finally becoming sensitive enough to spot such an event.
If you could go back in time and look at a compass, it would show something very different.
This could help us better understand the fundamental forces in physics.
It could be useful for generating energy at the atomic scale or studying quantum effects.
They look pretty, too.
Coronavirus or not, you should close the lid before flushing.
Our planet’s core might be pockmarked with hot blobs. We don’t know what they are, we don’t know where they’re from, but according to a new study, they’re there. Ever stopped and wondered just how we know so much about the Earth’s interior? Since we’re kids, we’re told that the Earth has a crust, a […]
A trifecta of recent discoveries has challenged models of galactic evolution, suggesting that galaxies could have formed much sooner in the Universe’s 13.7 billion year history than previously believed.
The halo surrounding the Milky Way may be much hotter than originally thought.
During an asteroid impact, angles matter.
Astronomers have used mysterious Fast Radio Bursts from distant galaxies to solve a lingering cosmological problem-- locating the Universe’s missing baryonic matter , long predicted to exist, but never before detected.
It's still early days and there are many uncertainties, but it could help us learn how COVID-19 could spread in shops.
Not all birds are of a feather, it turns out.
This could be used in fields ranging from medicine to space exploration.
In addition to social distancing and testing, identifying and isolating infected individuals seems to pay dividends.
This process has been noted on other planets, but not Neptune until now.
Inspired by coffee rings, scientists have investigated the chemical properties of microscopic webs of American whiskey.
A happy accident lead to a breakthrough that may prove to be revolutionary in physics and beyond.
On this ultra-hot gas giant, the weather report for today is cloudy, with a chance of molten iron falling from the sky.
Cooling some materials first can make them heat faster. Heating some materials can make them freeze faster.
Physicists have proposed a number of candidate particles to explain dark matter, but they were all hypothetical -- until now.
It's geology on fast forward.
It's cheap, eco-friendly, and actually outperforms synthetic glue in certain cases.
The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just change how we think about planet formation.
Surgeons or astronauts could touch objects more naturally wearing gloves equipped with these sensors.
A team of researchers from the US and China has developed a passive, solar-powered desalinization system that could quench the thirst of remote, arid coastal areas on the cheap. The system employs several layers of solar evaporators and condensers stacked on top of each other in a vertical array, topped off with an insulating layer […]
You can now preserve the memory of your loved ones by turning their ashes into diamonds.
The study of the Kuiper Belt body Arrokoth promises to change how we believe the building blocks of planets form. Thus revealing more about how planets such as the Earth are born.
New research has uncovered the presence of at least thirteen ‘wandering’ black holes in dwarf galaxies. Something, that until recently was not believed possible.
You can't adapt to gettin' stabbed.
LEGOs and quantum computers? Yup!
The planet's magnetic north pole is shifting at an alarming rate. Luckily, our magnetic model has received a much needed update.
The findings may prove to be revolutionary.
As the Hans Sigrist Prize is claimed by Ignas Snellen for groundbreaking exoplanet research, the message is clear--the search for other worlds is heating up.
A much needed upgrade to the LIGO detector enables scientists to cast a wider net to catch gravitational waves.
The ESA's CHEOPS satellite launches later this month with the mission to select exoplanets suitable for in-depth investigation.
Black holes and neutron stars are the densest and most mysterious objects in the universe, and researchers may have figured out the source of the light they emit.
Classic science, budding its way into something that's been going on for millennia.
Astronomers have identified a runaway star travelling at an incredible 6 million kilometres per hour, ejected by the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy 5 million years ago.
The mystery of how complex carbon molecules--buckyballs-- came to be detected in interstellar space may have been solved.
Researchers have used ground-penetrating radar to find overlapping tracks from 12,000 years ago.
Unsinkable ships could become a reality with such technology.
This is not good news.
The uncertainty principle provides a constant hindrance to the sensitivity of equipment such as LIGO's interferometer and new research shows, avoiding it is going to be even harder than we had believed.
Sick of plastic waste? So are these researchers.
Some bubbles were up to 750 feet (228 meters) across.
In smaller galaxies, large-scale winds from active black holes could hinder the formation of stars.
A new record for the most atoms placed in a quantum superposition simultaneously has been set by researchers - pushing the boundary of massive particles showing quantum effects.
It's a space-time-bender!
