Debris from the 20-metric-ton booster reportedly splashed down in the Indian Ocean north of the Maldives The Chinese rocket has come down. The 23-ton core stage of a Long March 5B booster crashed back to Earth Saturday night (May 8), ending 10 controversial days aloft that captured the attention ofContinue Reading
A new model cuts through the chaos to reach the best-yet predictions of complex gravitational interactions Physicists have spent centuries grappling with an inconvenient truth about nature: Faced with three stars on a collision course, astronomers could measure their locations and velocities in nanometers and milliseconds and it wouldn’t beContinue Reading
An emerging cancer therapy could someday shorten the time patients spend in treatment and improve their overall outcomes. Someday, specialized systems could barrage cancer patients with particles to deliver a full course of radiation therapy in mere microseconds, new research suggests. Using an emerging technique known as flash radiotherapy, doctorsContinue Reading
The galaxy cluster Abell 1689 is famous for the way it bends light in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. Study of the cluster has revealed secrets about how dark energy shapes the universe. (Image: © NASA, ESA, E. Jullo (JPL/LAM), P. Natarajan (Yale) and J-P. Kneib (LAM)) A new studyContinue Reading
Here’s how the famous Iron Age ‘Heslington brain’ got preserved. Scientists are amazed that a human brain could persist for 2,600 years. (Image: © Axel Petzold/Journal of the Royal Society Interface) In 2008, archaeologists were stunned to discover a human brain dating to the Iron Age. The finding seemed toContinue Reading