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One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies within its vicinity. A quasar is a powerful source of …
A distant quasar may be zapping all galaxies around itself Read More
They say that going to space changes you. Often, what’s being referenced is a shift in mindset, a renewed sense of perspective that comes from seeing our world from above, …
Human spaceflight’s new era is fraught with medical and ethical questions Read More
The time is nigh for nuclear clocks. In a first, scientists have used a tabletop laser to bump an atomic nucleus into a higher energy state. It’s a feat that …
Physicists take a major step toward making a nuclear clock Read More
Lightning and the sun — Science News, June 22, 1974 The latest addition to the growing list of meteorological phenomena which have been linked with solar activity is lightning…. Using …
50 years ago, the sun’s influence on Earth’s lightning was revealed Read More
The orbits of a trio of stars can be so chaotic that it’s impossible to precisely calculate the stars’ future trajectories. That’s the real science behind the name of …
Separating science fact from fiction in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Read More
What’s dumped into a landfill is supposed to stay there, but a new study finds that toxic “forever chemicals” are wafting from the waste into the air. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl …
Landfills belch toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into the air Read More
A summer wave of COVID-19 is rising. “There’s clearly a bump,” says William Schaffner, an infectious diseases expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. The medical center has seen …
How to stay healthy during the COVID-19 summertime surge Read More
Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728 is waking up. Over the past four years, astronomers have been able to watch the supermassive black hole in SDSS1335+0728’s center …
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first time Read More
For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic material. Crack open a physics textbook and you may read that scientists classify …
Newfound ‘altermagnets’ shatter the magnetic status quo Read More
Imagine tiny fists punching their way through your body. For some cancer patients, this may be the reality. Melanoma cells can mechanically tunnel their way through tissue using fleshy membrane …
Some melanoma cancer cells may punch their way through the body Read More