New Intergalactic Discovery Could Be Biggest Supernova Ever
Or maybe it’s a star being eaten by a black hole. Or maybe it’s something entirely different.
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Or maybe it’s a star being eaten by a black hole. Or maybe it’s something entirely different.
If a river can be granted personhood, why not an elephant?
At just 11 light years away, Ross 128 could be a prime target for the search of alien life.
We know blackholes can smash into each other, but we don't know where they came from. University boffins are trying to fix that.
Filmmaker Roman De Giuli manages to turn a basic lesson about magnetism into a moving masterpiece.
Within the next decade scientists may be able to spot a whole new kind of gravitational wave with a tool called a pulsar timing array, or PTA.
Scientists are finally able to view this behemoth from up close—and the pictures are just as spectacular as we imagined.
This is the latest in a string of studies wherein researchers have tapped into the biosensors of wearables to detect and monitor serious health conditions.
We can expect some seriously pretty pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope when NASA finally get around to rolling it out.
The video is grainy and dark, but it provides an astonishing first look at CRISPR in action.
Downsizing could potentially cut costs by around 40 per cent and reduce the amount of digging required to build such an experiment.
This disturbing sci-fi short shows what might happen if we fail to place an international moratorium on autonomous killing machines.
The jury’s still out on whether these weapons have any real tactical value.
Are the results enough to show this is a path worth pursuing?
Now I really want to stand in some mercury.
The NHS sure do love their Twitter GIFs.
