The astronomical community has spent two decades wondering why the Crab Pulsar, the stellar remnant born from a supernova that Chinese and Japanese astronomers documented in the year 1054, emits radio ...

For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves emanating ...

New research from the University of Kansas untangles a decades-old astrophysical puzzle, showing how competing forces -- gravity’s pull and magnetospheric plasma -- split the radio emissions emanating ...

Thanks to advances in science, we’re now able to move beyond Bohm and Bohr’s theorizing; we can test their hypotheses through ...

Twisting atomically thin magnetic layers does more than reshape their electronics—it can create giant, topological magnetic ...

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What is quantum computing, really? We explain qubits, superposition, and the quantum threat to encryption — in plain English, with no PhD required.

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Light does not “think” in any human sense. Still, under the right conditions, it can behave in a way that looks uncannily ...

A pair of photons enters an optical maze, and sometimes they leave as something new. Not new in the everyday sense, since ...

Study Identifies Systematic Instabilities in Quasar Dipole Measurements. New Analysis Challenges "Lopsided Universe" ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by several telescopes. This approach, known as long-baseline interferometry, ...