‘Polar ring’ galaxies might not be as rare as once thought
It’s big. It’s beautiful. It looks a bit like a sparkly, starry, slightly smooshed Eye of Sauron. It’s the galaxy NGC 4632, and new radio [more…]
It’s big. It’s beautiful. It looks a bit like a sparkly, starry, slightly smooshed Eye of Sauron. It’s the galaxy NGC 4632, and new radio [more…]
Quantum mechanics, a field of study dating back almost a century, is an essential part of fundamental science, serving to describe the behavior of elementary [more…]
There were drones, there were boats. There were spotters on land and a hydrophone listening for suspicious sounds underwater. In what may have been the [more…]
Names have significance, especially when they’re written in the stars. A group of astronomers is coalescing around an idea to rename two neighbors of the [more…]
The virus that causes COVID-19 spreads through the air. But just how much virus people breathe out over the course of infection isn’t well-defined. To [more…]
Our Fragile MomentMichael MannPublicAffairs, $30 Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, [more…]
For Caribbean box jellyfish, learning is literally a no-brainer. In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles despite having no central [more…]
Maybe TikTok showed you people putting a little tape on their lips. Or maybe Instagram served you ads for sticky mouth strips. On social media [more…]
Electricity Saved My Brain This is the first part in a series on deep brain stimulation for depression. [Content warning: This story contains discussion of [more…]
Electricity Saved My Brain This is the second part in a series on deep brain stimulation for depression. Read from the beginning. [Content note: This [more…]