Category: Science

Two massive baby stars may have become a binary after a chance encounter just 60 years ago

Astronomers tracked two massive stars that are still being born and found evidence that they...

The Universe is forming fewer stars, but galaxies have not run out of hydrogen

Star formation across the Universe has fallen sharply over the past 4.5 billion years, yet...

Einstein’s Gravity Holds Up in a New Quantum Test

Physicists have directly measured a long-predicted quantum effect of free fall, finding that an important...

Scientists have detected a sugar in interstellar space for the first time

Astronomers have detected a four-carbon sugar in interstellar space for the first time, showing that...

Astronomers find the fastest known star in the Milky Way racing around its black hole

Astronomers have discovered S301, the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It reaches 25,000...

Two lost human lineages are still hiding in our DNA

Scientists have identified genetic traces from two previously unknown extinct human lineages inside modern DNA,...

The Jack Russell’s Nose May Be Better Than Its Reputation

Russell terriers performed competitively in a large test of dogs' natural scent ability, supporting earlier...

Scientists Have Seen Tiny Whirlpools on the Sun for the First Time

The sharpest observations yet of the Sun’s visible surface have revealed tiny plasma whirlpools only...

MeerKAT’s New Map of a Nearby Galaxy Is Revealing What Older Surveys Missed

South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope has produced a detailed new radio survey of the Large Magellanic...

Africa’s Giant Herbivores Were Replacing Themselves More Slowly

Africa’s giant herbivores may not have disappeared because large species faced unusually high extinction rates....

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