Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter
NASA’s robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System’s largest planet. This video is from…
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Not just light: Everything is a wave, including you
In 1905, the 26-year-old Albert Einstein proposed something quite outrageous: that light could be both wave or particle. This idea…
Plants spark with electricity during thunderstorms
Scientists have long been aware that plants and trees can emit small, visible electric discharges from the tips of their…
Holding Information in Mind May Mean Storing It Among Synapses
Findings support modern thought that neural networks store information by making short-term alterations to the synapses. The study sheds new…
Relativistic Plasma Mirror Driven at a Record-Breaking 1,000 Shots per Second
For the very first time, physicists were successful at driving at a thousand shots per second a so-called plasma mirror…
Science in pills: Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth’s subterranean movements….
Wavelength Sensitivity of Hubble, Webb, Roman, and Other Observatories
Planets, stars, galaxies, and other objects in space give off a wide range of visible and invisible forms of light….
Bluetooth: origin and how does it work?
As a matter of fact, most of you are probably fielding it on yourselves even as you read this- maybe…
Three new unusual particles have been found by the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration has announced the discovery of three new exotic particles. Exotic particles, such as…
Whoa! Light can travel back in time
A team of physicists claims to have moved light from one side of time to the other simultaneously ; that…