Famous Neutron Star Just Glitched in a Huge Way
Pulsars typically rotate at a constant rate and emit radiation that appears to us like the regular flashing of a lighthouse. Recently, one of them hiccuped.
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Pulsars typically rotate at a constant rate and emit radiation that appears to us like the regular flashing of a lighthouse. Recently, one of them hiccuped.
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It's the audio version of that damn dress.
NASA will be testing heavier-than-air flight on Mars by sending miniature robot helicopter with the upcoming Mars 2020 rover.
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As usual, Giz is here asking the important questions.
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Eliminating all industrial-manufactured trans fats from the global food supply by 2023 is an ambitious, perhaps unrealistic goal.
The pitch was a skin-care routine designed especially to give me the skin I was “born to have.” The reality was decidedly more itchy, flaky, and red.
Four years after enduring an accident that nearly left him paralysed, Australian mountaineer Steve Plain is now the fastest person reach the top of the tallest mountain on all seven continents.
Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along—they just don’t think to ask the question.
Sorry, Albert—turns out that quantum mechanics really is as spooky as you thought it was.
The struggle to establish nonhuman animal personhood is far from over.
Why haven’t we found a surefire way to cure or prevent the deadly disease yet?
New research has uncovered the biological factors involved in keeping squirrels' cellular structures intact during hibernation—a finding that could eventually be used to preserve human organs prior to transplantation.
It’s been more than six months since the Cassini probe plummeted to its demise, but scientists are still releasing incredible images from two-decade mission to Saturn.
