Category: 7. Science

Some 200 light years from Earth, the core of a dead star is circling a larger star in a macabre cosmic dance. The dead star is a type of white dwarf that exerts a powerful magnetic field as it pulls material from the…

Isala cohort cross-sectional study

The Isala citizen-science project (https://isala.be/en/) was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Antwerp University Hospital/University of Antwerp (B300201942076) on November 18th, 2019, and registered…

For nearly two centuries, the world accepted a simple explanation for why ice makes us slip. According to physics textbooks, pressure from a skate, a boot or a tyre melts a microscopic film of water on the surface. That meltwater acts like a…

After teasing a major announcement, NASA has released a slate of new images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including the closest observations obtained to date.

Across the Solar System, from observatories studying the Sun to spacecraft on the…

Gamma-ray bursts, the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe, continue to challenge our understanding of extreme astrophysical phenomena, and recent observations of GRB 221009A have revealed unexpectedly bright, very-high-energy…

Nasa released fresh images on Wednesday of the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our solar system, as US space agency officials dismissed speculation that it was actually an…

NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid.

According to a new blog post on the rover’s…

Newswise — In a discovery shaped by more than a decade of steady, incremental effort rather than a dramatic breakthrough, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and their collaborators…

Quantum entanglement, a phenomenon where particles become linked and share the same fate regardless of distance, lies at the heart of modern information theory and promises revolutionary advances in computing and communication. Lane Boswell…

Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived…