In 1905, Albert Einstein showed in his Special Theory of Relativity that space is intimately connected to time via the cosmic speed limit of light and so, strictly speaking, we live in a Un…
Scientists on the International Space Station spotted a bright-blue lightning bolt shooting upward from thunderclouds. Blue jets can be difficult to spot from the ground, since the elec…
Strong emotions in repetitive dreams could offer cosmic clues about another version of you, according to this controversial idea. How many times have you woken up feeling euphoric or de…
JWST detected carbon dioxide and methane in its atmosphere. By using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team has just detected the presence of carbon dioxide and methane on …
When his parents first enrolled Jacob Barnett in school they were told to forget it and that their son would never be able to learn anything in school. Naturally concerned they took him to …
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look deep into the heart of a pair of merging galaxies known as UGC 4211 discovered two black holes growing side …
Physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have achieved a groundbreaking experiment, creating matter from light by demonstrating the Breit-Wheeler process. Using the Relativistic Heavy I…