Category: 7. Science

When a black hole and a neutron star spiral toward collision, theory predicts that their orbit should become almost perfectly circular before the final impact.

Gravitational waves steadily drain energy from the system, tightening the orbit and…

Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of blue-green eggs. Yet…

A University of Oxford-led study has identified a new type of exoplanet with sulfur-rich magma oceans located about 35 light-years from our solar system.

Typically, planets are classified as small, rocky worlds or large gas giants. L 98-59 d…

The intricate, beautiful designs of origami are amazing — especially if paper airplanes are the extent of your folding skills. 

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Archaeologists are used to slow, careful discoveries. Most digs reveal fragments. At a lakeside site in Germany, researchers digging into a low hill came across something far more organised than expected. It was not just scattered remains.The…

In a time when coral bleaching, disease, and habitat loss are increasingly…

Most people hear “biodegradable plastic” and picture something that simply disappears – like a leaf breaking down on the forest floor. In reality, it’s far less automatic.

These materials don’t just vanish on their own. They need the…

Although dark matter makes up most of the mass in our universe, it has never been directly observed. To hunt for lighter dark matter and other rare phenomena, researchers must solve a puzzle in their supersensitive detectors: an unexpected…

Superconducting materials could play a crucial role in the energy-efficient applications of the future. However, several technical challenges still stand in the way of their practical use. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of…