Science

In a first, astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear

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This diagram shows how a shifting feature, called a corona, can create a flare of X-rays...

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Charm Quarks Offer Clues to Confinement

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A collision of gold nuclei recorded by the Berkeley Lab-built Heavy Flavor Tracker (...

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Keeping Watch

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Keeping Watch

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Objects in the night

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Objects in the night

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Scientists Successfully Demonstrate a New Experiment in the Search for Theorized ‘Neutrinoless’ Process

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The CUPID-Mo detector is installed in the Edelweiss cryostat at Modane Underground...

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Two Bizarre Brown Dwarfs Found With Citizen Scientists' Help

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This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf, a ball of gas not massive enough to power itself the way stars do. Despite their...

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NASA's AIRS Monitors Tropical Storm Fay as It Deluges the East Coast

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NASA's AIRS instrument captured this image of Tropical Storm Fay around 2 p.m. local time on July 10, 2020, as the storm...

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Giant A-68 iceberg three years on

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A-68A in open waters.

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