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Radio astronomers have decoded a peculiar repeating radio signal from deep space, tracing it to a vampiric binary star system ...

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We’ve never seen a member of this class of signals behave like this, but there is a surprising parallel within our own Solar ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

On a dark July morning in 1945, U.S. scientists and military personnel detonated the world's first nuclear bomb in a remote area of New Mexico. The blast unleashed the energy equivalent of 25,000 tons ...

The origin of long-period radio bursts has been shown to be from the clash of magnetic fields as a white dwarf steals matter ...

With 263 antennas spread across the U.S. and Mexico, the Next Generation Very Large Array, would join a new wave of radio astronomy. By Katrina Miller A new telescope — the Next Generation Very Large ...

New York magazine is examining the past work of one of its writers who has been accused of plagiarism after publishing at least three stories with striking similarities to other published work. Ross ...

When he was a kid, Shaun Pexton would pore through popular science magazines like New Scientist and Scientific American to keep up with the latest advances in astrophysics or biology. But by the time ...

Scientists in South Korea have discovered that a probiotic bacterium found in kimchi may help the body flush out tiny plastic particles before they can build up in organs. In lab tests, the ...