Artist impression of a double-star system. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Humans have been studying the light from stars since the beginning of our history; however, we’ve…
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A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth’s mass into a sphere about 22 kilometers across,…
Schematic image of permanent magnet stellarator with plasma in yellow. Red and blue indicate permanent magnets with simplified coils surrounding the vessel. Credit: Coaxing Zhu…
A look into the interior of the Sun and a more evolved giant star. Credit: MPS / Aalto University / hormesdesign.de By combining modern data…
Stone tools found at the Dhaba site corresponding with the Toba volcanic super-eruption levels. Pictured here are diagnostic Middle Palaeolithic core types. Credit: Chris Clarkson…
The shared brain asymmetry pattern is visualized on a human endocast (cast of the internal bony braincase) in lateral view (left) and from the lower…
Resolution taken to the extreme: Using a combination of ultrashort laser pulses (red) and a scanning tunneling microscope, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for…
One of the wolves, named Aino, waiting in the test apparatus. Contrary to expectations, dogs and wolves performed equally well on the cooperation task. Credit:…
The physical process driving Gamma-Ray Bursts might be synchrotron radiation after all. A new analysis of Fermi/GBM archival data of gamma-ray bursts (GRB), the most…
Dogs use facial expressions and body language to communicate with conspecifics and humans. Credit: Sylvio Tüpke The first comprehensive study of the human ability to…
A string of modern ostrich eggshell beads from eastern Africa. Credit: Hans Sell New archeological analysis challenges long-standing hypotheses about ostrich eggshell beads and the…
First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genome. Expansions of DNA repeats are very hard to analyze. A method developed by researchers…
Penning trap system of the BASE Collaboration. Credit: Stefan Sellner, Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan Researchers now harnessing antimatter in their search for dark matter.…
TXS 0506+056. The neutrino event IceCube 170922A appears to originate in the interaction zone of the two jets. Credit: © IceCube Collaboration, MOJAVE, S. Britzen,…
In satellite images, the algae carpets with their light streaks look like works of art. In the 70,000 square kilometre wide Deutsche Bucht alone, algal…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, together with colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencein Israel have developed a computational…
An ancient gas cloud discovered by a team led including recent Carnegie-Princeton fellow Eduardo Bañados and Carnegie’s Michael Rauch and Tom Cooper formed just 850…
Topological quantum states in graphene induced by light. Credit: © Benedikt Schulte Discovering ways to control the topological aspects of quantum materials is an important…
Dense connectome from the mouse cerebral cortex, the largest connectome to date. Neurons in the cortex, densely reconstructed from 3-D electron microscopy data. Credit: Reprinted…
This image shows our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, observed in series of exposures with all seven eROSITA telescope modules taken from 18 to…