Rising odds asteroid that briefly threatened Earth will hit moon
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to new data from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Study finds eastward shift of settlement areas at end of last Ice Age
A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...
Would you join the resistance if stuck in an authoritarian regime? Here's the psychology behind such a move
Most of us like to believe we would have opposed the rise of Nazism in 1930s Germany. We may even like to imagine that we ...
Physicists uncover electronic interactions mediated via spin waves
Research by physicists at The City College of New York is being credited for a novel discovery regarding the interaction of ...
Exploring Titan's icy hydrocarbon cycle
Though wildly different in so many ways, Earth and Saturn's moon Titan have something important in common. Among all the objects in the solar system, they're the only two with liquids on their ...
Lessons from El Salvador for US university leaders facing attacks from presidential administration
Even before President Donald Trump took office, university presidents expressed concern about the impact of his agenda on ...
Intriguing excess of top-quark pairs hints at discovery of smallest composite particle
The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which ...
Engineers develop a way to mass manufacture nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors
Polymer-coated nanoparticles loaded with therapeutic drugs show significant promise for cancer treatment, including ovarian ...
When a black hole winks at you: Variability identified in supermassive black hole in Andromeda galaxy
A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...