It’s wet, you drop it, but think “eh, it’s fine.” You pop the can open and SPLASH—there’s soda all over white shirt. Could you have prevented this beverage tragedy? Yes, with a little help from ...
Modern oil tankers carry some of the most volatile cargo on Earth, yet catastrophic explosions are virtually unheard of. The answer lies in a surprisingly elegant system that uses the ship's own ...
Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and collaborating institutions recently built a generative AI model that can recreate molecular structures from the ...
Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing astronomers to identify the exploding cataclysmic variable GOTO0650 within ...
In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.
Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...