About Us
Men’s fashion goes low-risk in uncertain world
After a 2025 marked by sweeping turnover among creative directors and numerous debuts, this Fall/Winter 2026 edition was more measured, in substance as well as in style.
Outer Planets
Birth conditions fixed water contrast on Jupiters moons
Since the first spacecraft explored the Jovian system in the late 1970s, scientists have recognized that Jupiter's large moons display strikingly different characteristics, with Io and Europa providing the most pronounced example.
About Us
To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space
A study by researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides new evidence from tests in animals that the answer might be found within a theory called "spatial computing.
Physics News
GRACE gravity data reveal deep Earth signal links
The research team combined satellite gravity measurements from the GRACE mission with core magnetic field information from the CHAOS-7 geomagnetic field model.
Time And Space
Exploding primordial black hole model may link extreme neutrino and dark matter
In new research published by Physical Review Letters, the team not only accounts for the otherwise impossible neutrino but shows that the elementary particle could reveal the fundamental nature of the universe.
Stellar Chemistry
Strange ‘inside-out’ planetary system baffles astronomers
In our Solar System, the four planets closest to the Sun are small and rocky, while the four farther out are gas giants.
Exo Worlds
ALMA survey maps turbulent youth of distant planetary systems
Debris discs mark a collision-dominated era when leftover planetesimals and minor bodies grind themselves down into dust through repeated impacts.
Time And Space
It started with a cat: How 100 years of quantum weirdness powers today’s tech
In a sweeping new perspective published in Science, Dr. Marlan Scully, a university distinguished professor at Texas A and M University, traces the journey of…
Time And Space
Laser timing tech sharpens black hole radio views
To meet this challenge, a KAIST led collaboration has implemented a reference signal system that sends an optical frequency comb laser directly into radio…
Time And Space
Hydrogen nuclei experiment sharpens view of quarks inside matter
Hydrogen sits at the top of the Periodic Table because its nucleus contains just one proton.
Ice World
Seafloor weathering may explain ancient global glaciation puzzle
Researchers have long debated why some Snowball Earth events lasted far longer than others and what controlled their termination.
Time And Space
Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies
A study published in Nature Physics Jan. 14, co-led by Rice University's Qimiao Si, brings together quantum criticality, where electrons fluctuate between…
Exo Worlds
Frozen hydrogen cyanide crystals may have helped spark early chemistry for life
In a study reported in the journal ACS Central Science, researchers used computer simulations to investigate how frozen hydrogen cyanide behaves at the molecular level.
Stellar Chemistry
Webb sharpens view of dark matter shaping the cosmos
The new map, created with observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and published in Nature Astronomy, traces dark matter in a region of sky in the constellation Sextans covering an area about 2.5 times larger than the full Moon.
Exo Worlds
Pandora exoplanet mission checks in after launch
The spacecraft rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East, sharing the flight with the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, known as SPARCS, and the Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope CubeSat, or BlackCAT.
Time And Space
JWST red dots reveal rapidly growing early black holes
A team at the University of Copenhagen's Cosmic Dawn Center now reports that the mystery objects are young, rapidly growing black holes embedded in dense cocoons of gas.