Mar 18 What we've learned about Pluto since the flyby By Nsikan Akpan NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto continues to astonish in new set of five studies on the dwarf planet. Continue reading
Mar 08 This underwater creature tears open its skin to eat By Nsikan Akpan Biophysicists film and measure how a hydra manages to rip apart its skin to open its mouth. Continue reading
Feb 24 Take a cruise across our cold galaxy and witness the birthplace of stars By Nsikan Akpan Scientists use a telescope in Chile to complete a survey of the coldest parts of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Continue reading
Feb 11 Watch 5:25 What's the sound of two black holes colliding? Proof that Einstein was right By PBS News Hour Gravitational waves -- ripples in the fabric of spacetime -- aren’t just an Einstein theory any more. A team of international scientists announced Thursday that they confirmed the waves’ existence after recording feedback from a black hole collision a billion… Continue watching
Nov 25 TVs, radar guns and other technologies linked to Einstein's theories of relativity By Nsikan Akpan If you’ve ever received a speeding ticket, you can thank Albert Einstein. Continue reading
Nov 25 Thanks to Einstein, my starships can break interstellar speed laws By Catherine Asaro Science fiction writer and scientist Catherine Asaro explains what might happen if you could travel faster than light and break Albert Einstein's theoretical speed limit for the universe. Continue reading
Nov 24 How Einstein inspired me to find a magical piece of mathematics By S. James Gates, Jr. S. James Gates, Jr., a theoretical physicist, explains how geometry, string theory and Einstein's mathematics have brought society closer to a theory of everything. Continue reading
Nov 16 Bats flip like Tony Hawk to land upside down By Nsikan Akpan A new study uses high-speed video and computer graphics uncover how bats make acrobatic flips and land upside down. Continue reading
Oct 06 Nobel Prize awarded for changing neutrinos, the 'chameleons' of particle physics By Nsikan Akpan Takaaki Kajita of University of Tokyo and Arthur B. McDonald of Queen's University in Canada have now won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. Continue reading
Mar 18 How a St. Patty's Day solar storm turned on the Northern Lights By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy When a wave of charged particles and magnetic field from the sun hits the Earth, the planet becomes a neon light bulb. Continue reading