Scientists have uncovered an unexpected breakdown of nuclear order in a remarkably symmetric atom, challenging long-standing ...

In 2019, the world was mesmerized by the first-ever image of a black hole, courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The striking image depicted the supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded did not roar for seconds or even minutes, but for a staggering seven hours, forcing ...

A tremendous cosmic explosion 2.4 billion light years away temporarily changed the electric field in Earth’s ionosphere (the electrically-charged upper layer of our atmosphere that helps shield life ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A University of Colorado Denver engineer is on the cusp of giving scientists a new tool that can help them turn sci-fi into reality. Imagine a safe gamma ray laser that could eradicate cancer cells ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are intense, transient cosmic events, typically originating from massive stellar collapses or mergers of compact objects, which serve as crucial probes for understanding the ...

In the early 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky observed galaxies in space moving faster than their mass should allow, prompting him to infer the presence of some invisible scaffolding—dark ...

Far more of the 125,000 atom-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were first reported came from the explosion’s X-ray-like radiations. This fact, which medicine has long suspected, was ...