This view represents more than 50% of the COSMOS-Web survey: the largest, deepest view of the Universe ever acquired with JWST. It provides us with our deepest wide-field view of the Universe ever taken, revealing how galaxies and larger structures...
By mapping out the three-dimensional positions of galaxies over a large volume of the Universe, scientists within the DESI collaboration have uncovered some (but not overwhelming) suggestive evidence that the strength of dark energy has weakened (and is weakening) over...
Atomic and molecular configurations come in a near-infinite number of possible combinations, but the specific combinations found in any material determine its properties. While diamonds are classically viewed as the hardest material found on Earth, they are neither the strongest...
In 2019, with Hurricane Dorian bearing down on the Florida coast, the official NOAA predictions (in white) were edited with a sharpie to incorrectly align with previous Donald Trump statements (that were factually inaccurate) about the potential path of the...
Although there are many novel proposals for new particle colliders, including in China, at CERN, and at Fermilab, the question of whether to build a circular machine, a linear lepton collider, or to pursue a novel muon collider all remain...
The central idea of String Theory is that all the quanta we know of are described by tiny strings that vibrate in various ways on minuscule scales: far below what’s ever been probed. String theory is an attempt at a...
This Wolf–Rayet star is known as WR 31a, located about 30,000 light-years away in the constellation of Carina. The outer nebula is expelled hydrogen and helium, while the central star, likely fusing carbon-or-heavier elements in its core, burns at over...
This map of the galaxy Messier 81, constructed from data taken with the Very Large Array, maps out this spiral-armed, star-forming galaxy in 21 centimeter emissions. The spin-flip transition of hydrogen, which emits light at precisely 21 centimeters in wavelength,...
The lab leak conspiracy theory, promoted here in 2021 by Sen. Rand Paul, vilifies Dr. Fauci and attempts to tie him to the notion that the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was engineered in and leaked from the Wuhan Institute for Virology....
While there are a great number of exoplanets out there that may house life, including exoplanets that are very different from Earth, we must be careful to distinguish possible biosignature molecules from abiotically produced ones, and be aware that many...
