The orange is light from carbon-based molecules; the dark red filaments are cold hydrogen shielding the new stars. The picture is data, not…
It is not a mystery because it is hard to detect. It is a mystery because it causes no damage, so nobody has had a reason to fund solving…
Saturn leaves the evening sky and the planets shift to the hour before dawn. The Leonids peak on 17-18 November with the moon setting just…
The level is the headline; the acceleration is the finding. Methane and nitrous oxide also set records, and the warming effect is up 56%…
Swift’s trick was speed: it swung its own cameras onto a burst in seconds and told every other telescope where to look. Its data will…
The dispute will probably never be resolved. What it exposes is a journal system already failing to keep AI-written material out, and no…
Fifteen per cent of the Amazon’s primary forest is permanently gone. The researchers say the real story is not a looming tipping point but…
The moon above Venus, with the Hyades cluster nearby, occurs on only three dawns in the summer of 1889. One of them is a very good match…
A Physical Review D paper from Lehman College argues tiny black holes formed just after the Big Bang are dense enough for their gravity to…
Saturn is visible east-southeast just after sunset, Venus sits low in the west, the new moon on 10 October gives the darkest skies, and the…
Nikon’s Small World In Motion contest accepts footage taken through powerful microscopes. The winning entry claims to show cilia moving in…
Only about 0.1% of people have highly superior autobiographical memory. A new study in Cortex documents a teenager with verified…
