A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

For many years, astronomers have relied on distant supernovae as cosmic beacons to study the universe and test the laws of physics. But while ...

The light did not fade the way it was supposed to. After blazing into view about a billion light-years from Earth, the supernova known as SN 2024afav settled into something stranger. Its brightness ...

Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth's magnetosphere is the "magic trick" behind superbright supernovas.

Clare Barron’s “You Got Older” is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn’s “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” is ...

The Quote of the Day by Albert Einstein, “Man invented the atomic bomb but no mouse in the world would ever build a mousetrap,” reflects on the contradiction of human intelligence. The physicist used ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of a magnetar, a highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron star, ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed the birth of one of the most extreme objects in the universe: a magnetar packing the mass of about 500,000 Earths into a sphere only 12 miles wide. A ...

"What's really exciting is that this is definitive evidence for a magnetar forming as the result of a superluminous supernova core collapse," explained Alex Filippenko, a UC Berkeley distinguished ...

I was helping out at my youngest daughter’s athletics carnival (yes I was an elite hurdler, yes I did qualify for world juniors and win my first national title when I was 10. So what? Stop bringing it ...

For the first time since records began, a single company, Amazon, spent more on R&D than the entire German state (see chart below). Germany, birthplace of the modern research university, home to ...