The large radio telescope and an illustration of the signal. (CHIME/MIT)A brand-new radio signal from deep space is once again challenging our understanding of these mysterious phenomena.Not only is this brand-new fast radio burst, called FRB 20191221A, another extremely rare repeater, but it is not even that quick: the radio flashes received across intergalactic...
Smart people are not afraid to say "I don't know."In the age of social networks and rolling information, there's a continuous pressure to be in the know, always available with an aperçus or two (2).Today, intellectual humility, therefore, feels more significant than ever-- having the insight and honesty to hold your hands up and...
Whether they are studying bioinformatics, history, or astrophysics, Ph.D. recipients in France will have to take an integrity oath on the day they efficiently defend their thesis in what seems to be the very first national initiative of its kind. Few scientists in France or somewhere else believe the oath alone is most likely...
A pulsar with its jets and magnetic fields. Credit: NASAFar out in the Milky Way, about 22,000 light-years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic power that beats anything physicists have seen before.At an enormous 1.6 billion Tesla, a pulsar named Swift J0243.6+6124 smashes the previous records of around one...
Today we were in a frenzy over a sneaky side-glimpse of a galaxy revealed in the first full-color James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) pictures.However, if you thought that was wild, then wait on this: it ends up JWST has also went down some stealthy images of Jupiter! And they are ridiculously beautiful.These photos, taken...
Richard Feynman once stated that the double-slit experiment reveals the central challenges of quantum mechanics, putting us ''up against the and peculiarities of nature and paradoxes and mysteries''.Nandini Mukherjee, Richard Zare, and their co-workers at Stanford University, United States, have currently revealed that when helium (He) atoms collide with deuterium molecules (D2) in a quantum...
Facebook co-founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)I have heard folks say that CEOs deserve what they make through the time they put in.While some CEOs maybe...
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have mapped the composition of asteroid Psyche, revealing a surface of metal, sand, and rock. Credit: Screenshot courtesy of NASAThe different surface recommends a dynamic history that could include metallic eruptions, asteroid-shaking impacts, also a lost rocky mantle.Later this year, NASA is defining to launch a probe the size...
Olduvai stone chopping tool, made from basalt, from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 1.8-2 million years old. British Museum (1934,1214.1). Credit: BabelStone / Wikimedia.Electronics, airplanes, internal combustion engines, and the wheel are the descendants of a far more rudimentary technology: stone tools. Early stone tools can seem simple. However, their creation represents a massive landmark in...
Researchers have joined macro photography with DNA metabarcoding to create a brand-new botanical "CSI" device that might hold the key to safeguarding the future of Australia's critically endangered carnivorous plants.The brand-new technology-- developed by researchers from Curtin University, the Botanical and Zoological Natural History Collections in Munich, and the University of Munich-- enables specialists...
