Category: 7. Science

Earth’s climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet’s orbit and axial tilt. These variations, known as Milankovitch cycles, occur because Earth doesn’t orbit the Sun in…

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with other studies that suggested nearly every galaxy has one of these…

For the first time, doctors have watched a treatment slow the course of Huntington’s disease in people, instead of just easing symptoms. In a small international trial, people who received an experimental, one-time treatment called AMT 130…

Scientists have found that time moves slightly faster on the Red Planet than it does on Earth. Clocks on Mars tick, on average, 0.477 milliseconds (477 microseconds) faster over 24 hours when measured from Earth compared with time recorded on…

Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary. The twin stars in the sky over the newly-found extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet,” likely bear a…

Since the 1990s, physicists have pondered the tantalizing possibility of an exotic fourth type of neutrino, dubbed the “sterile” neutrino, that doesn’t interact with regular matter at…