Our Sun Could One Day Turn Into a Crystal Ball
At the end of its life, our Sun could end up as a crystal—and physicists now have observational evidence to back up that theory.
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At the end of its life, our Sun could end up as a crystal—and physicists now have observational evidence to back up that theory.
Watching how a black hole sucks up matter from a nearby companion star could help researchers better understand how these mystifying objects evolve.
It’s a new year, and the world has its first new species of shark in 2019.
Eight days after its historic landing on the far side of the Moon, China’s Chang’e 4 lander has captured its first panoramic image.
Archaeologists are trying to figure out why so many bodies at a 1,700-year-old site in Suffolk, England, were buried alongside their decapitated heads.
The researchers behind this want to turn the humble tomato into "a biofactory, with potential industrial and pharmaceutical applications."
"The parallels with Darwin’s illness are remarkable."
Things are going swimmingly.
Getting insanely high is, apparently, a rich intercontinental tradition going back tens of thousands of years.
Many suspected big trouble ahead for the rogue scientist, but this is even worse than we thought.
Despite IBM’s flashy announcement, we’re not any closer to having a broadly useful, error-corrected quantum computer.
The results show the potential of newborn genetic sequencing, but there were plenty of other complicated revelations.
On the island of Hispaniola, scientists are going to extreme lengths to save Ridgway's hawk chicks from a grisly fate.
Researchers last week bid farewell to a beloved land snail that was the last known survivor of his species Achatinella apexfulva.
A move ostensibly intended to insulate US-Russia cooperation in space from politics has done just the opposite.
Which of these pains – limiting things to the physical – hurts the worst?
