Astronomers discover how to feed a black hole The black holes at the centers of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only because of the huge quantities of material within them, […]
Chemists discover a key to greener food production Arguably the most important (if least well known) industrial advancement of the 20th century, the Haber-Bosch ammonia synthesis process essentially conquered food scarcity by creating the means […]
The magnetic field in the galactic outflow of M82 Messier 82 (M82) is a luminous infrared galaxy about twelve million light-years away from the Milky Way. Its burst of star formation powers the radiation and […]
Radio-wave therapy is safe for liver cancer patients and shows improvement in overall survival Researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine have shown that a targeted therapy using non-thermal radio waves is safe to use […]
Researchers film human viruses in liquid droplets at near-atomic detail A pond in summer can reveal more about a fish than a pond in winter. The fish living in icy conditions might remain still enough […]
Image: Hubble spots squabbling galactic siblings A dramatic triplet of galaxies takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which captures a three-way gravitational tug-of-war between interacting galaxies. This system—known as […]