Record-breaking light has more than a quadrillion electron volts of energy0
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- May 21, 2021
Twelve gamma ray hot spots in space suggest our galaxy harbors powerful particle accelerators
Twelve gamma ray hot spots in space suggest our galaxy harbors powerful particle accelerators
We sort-of take it for granted that there’s a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, but we can’t really go there and check. What if something else is actually lurking in this messy, dusty region?
University of Sheffield’s archaeology team argue vital work will be lost if threatened closure goes ahead
Last Sunday, as professional golfers blithely competed in the 2021 Wells Fargo Championship, something momentous happened: A new water monster announced itself to the world.
The models that robots use to do tasks work well in the structured environment of the laboratory. Outside the lab, however, even the most sophisticated models may prove inadequate in new situations or in difficult to model tasks, such as working with soft materials like rope and cloth.
‘Trinitite’ contains a material that is ordered but doesn’t repeat itself
Decades after flying saucers first captured Americans’ imaginations, Navy videos that defy explanation have sparked legitimate inquiries — some of them from senators.
Using spectroscopic observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a duo of astronomers from Poland has detected atomic nickel vapor in the cold coma of 2I/Borisov, an interstellar comet discovered on August 30, 2019 by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov.
The rover marks China’s first landing on the Red Planet
The birth of a star is a wild and magnificent thing.