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LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based Virgo detector registered gravitational waves from what appears likely...
The Science (or Lack Thereof) Behind Inducing Labor Naturally
We have centuries of lore and rumor on how to get the process of labor started naturally. But do any of them actually work?-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
NASA goes infrared on powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Aqua satellite focused an infrared eye on a very powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani as it approached landfall in northeastern India. Fani is a powerful Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wi...
LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a black hole eating a neutron star
Scientists work in the LIGO Hanford control room. (Caltech / MIT / LIGO Lab Photo / C. Gray)
The science teams for the , or LIGO, and Europe’s today laid out the details of their recent detections, including a crash between neutron stars, three black...
LIGO and Virgo recap smashups, including hints of a neutron star hitting a black hole
Scientists work in the LIGO Hanford control room. (Caltech / MIT / LIGO Lab Photo / C. Gray)
The science teams for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, and Europe’s Virgo detector today laid out the details of their recen...
Global Warming Has Been Influencing Drought for a Century
Tree rings from around the world match what climate models have suggested-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Exploding electrical wires underwater to understand shock waves
(American Institute of Physics) Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, and researcher...
Major violent attacks against Jews spiked 13% worldwide in 2018
(American Friends of Tel Aviv University) Thirteen Jews were murdered as the result of anti-Semitic attacks in 2018, and the number of other major violent anti-Semitic attacks spiked 13%, from 342 to 387 incidents worldwide, according to an annual re...
Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touches down on its West Texas landing pad at the end of a successful flight. (Blue Origin via YouTube)
Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, today sent dozens of science experiments and ot...
Cloud Constellation chooses LeoStella to build cloud data satellites in Seattle area
The SpaceBelt data storage constellation takes advantage of a ring of satellites in low Earth orbit as well as geostationary satellites in higher orbits. (Cloud Constellation Illustration)
has chosen , the U.S.-European joint venture based in Tukwil...