Astronomy
Beginning with Stars and Black Holes
Chaos reigned just milliseconds after the Big Bang. Atomic nuclei fused and disintegrated in rapid succession. Extremely high pressure waves built up and squeezed matter…
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Astronomy
Astronomers Confirm the Source of Extreme Cosmic Particles as a Star Wreck
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has confirmed one supernova remnant as a launch site for some of our galaxy’s most energetic protons. Astronomers have long…
Astronomy
There is a Sea of Galaxies to Explore
The new COMAP radio survey will look beneath the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of galaxies to uncover a previously unknown era of star formation. The…
Astronomy
Astronomers devise a novel method for ‘seeing’ first Stars through Early Universe’s Fog
A team of astronomers has developed a method for detecting light from the first stars and galaxies through the fog of the early Universe. The…
Astronomy
Carbon Star’s Mysterious Death unfolds like a Six-ring Circus
V Hydrae (V Hya) scientists have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. The team discovered six slowly-expanding rings and two hourglass-shaped structures…
Astronomy
Survey of Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science: A Broad View of the Early Universe
New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what could be one of the universe’s oldest galaxies. The images date back more than 13…
Physics
Researchers are Recalculating the Gravitational Constant
ETH Zurich researchers used a new measurement technique to redetermine the gravitational constant G. Although there is still a lot of uncertainty about this value,…
Technology
Scientists Successfully Process Complex Solar Data using a Machine Learning Tool
The process of using computers to detect patterns in massive datasets and then making predictions based on what the computer learns from those patterns is…
Astronomy
In Earthbound Lab, scientists simulate Supernova Remnants and Star Formation
A supernova can happen in one of two ways. Either a massive star will run out of fuel, ceasing to generate fusion energy in its…
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North American and European Insurtechs Are Recalibrating After a Blockbuster 2021
What a difference a year can make. A venture capitalist’s prediction that “the age of the European insurtech IPO will soon be upon us” was…
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