Using supercomputer calculations, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and from Japan show a consistent picture for the first time: They modeled the complete pr… [+5495 chars]
Scientists had long wondered how woodpeckers can repeatedly pound their beaks against tree trunks without doing damage to their brains. This led to the notion that their skulls must act like shock-ab… [+3871 chars]
I’m running on 3 hours of sleep, but I got these for you. #AuroraBorealis#NorthernLights#NBpic.twitter.com/UfL3XDZKym — Brad Perry (@bradjperry) July 8, 2022 On Thursday, July 7, 2022, photographs … [+2811 chars]
In 1850, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, a mathematician when he wasnt fulfilling his main responsibility as a vicar in the Church of England, described his schoolgirl problem: Fifteen young ladies in a sc… [+6711 chars]
Far out in the Milky Way, roughly 22,000 light years from Earth, a star unlike any other roars with a magnetic force that beats anything physicists have ever seen. At a whopping 1.6 billion Tesla, … [+3383 chars]
WASHINGTON NASA and Roscosmos are in the final stages of completing a long-awaited agreement to allow Russian cosmonauts to fly on commercial crew vehicles and American astronauts on Soyuz spacecraft… [+3307 chars]