Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

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What occurs when electrons escape from a solid material? Though it may appear straightforward, this process has long resisted ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

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Physicists have analyzed two enormous black hole mergers that happened one month apart and have come up with tantalizing ...

Explore benzene's transformative role in modern industry and its hidden health risks, revealing a complex legacy of ...

A microscopic helium wave flume uncovers unprecedented nonlinear wave behaviours, including soliton fission and backward ...

In January 2025, a ripple in spacetime reached Earth from more than a billion light-years away. It wasn’t light or radio ...

This paper describes Unbend - a new method for measuring and correcting motions in cryo-EM images, with a particular emphasis on more challenging in situ samples such as lamella and whole cells. The ...

"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has ...