First pulsar discovered by the GCGPS survey
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of the first pulsar by the Globular Clusters GMRT Pulsar Search ...
The Odds of a City-Killing Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Rising
The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...
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Ring Roads - Why We Spend Billions So We Can Drive In Circles
Today we shame cities that encircle themselves with freeways, but we also try to understand the logic of the ring road, orbital, or beltway (choose your terminology!). Come along on a tour of cities ...
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White Dwarf Stars Could Host Habitable Exoplanets
Could white dwarf stars host habitable exoplanets that might support life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal | Space ...
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A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, fete for Tom Lehrer, gospel choir and ice party
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Foundry Fest, a “Not Dead Yet!” tribute to Tom Lehrer, gospel ...
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Scientists find that our reality is nothing but a computer simulation
As sunlight filters through the trees and the soft hum of conversation fills the air, you sit in a café, cradling a warm cup ...
JWST Identifies Cooling Gas in Phoenix Cluster, Unlocking Star Formation Process
JWST’s observations confirm missing cooling gas in the Phoenix Cluster, explaining its rapid star formation rate.