AstronomyScientists find a very Old and Far-off Gamma Radiation Ray Burst NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was peering through eons and eons in September 2021 when it spotted a dramatic explosion, a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that…
LawTexas’ Content-Moderation-Restricting Social Media Statute is Upheld by a Federal Appeals Court On Friday (September 16, 2022), a federal appeals court upheld a contentious Texas law that limits Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube’s ability to control content on…
AstronomyClimate Change will Prolong the Effects of Space Pollution Satellites face greater chances of collision with space debris as a result of reduced density in the upper atmosphere. Increasing levels of CO2 in the…
SportsFollowing Sexual Assault Charges Against a Chinese Tennis Player, Naomi Osaka Joins Calls for Clarification Naomi Osaka has joined a growing list of tennis players and officials who are demanding information on Peng Shuai, a Chinese player who hasn’t been…
PhysicsCustom-shaped Nanoparticles have been Created by Scientists Physicists at Ural Federal University (UrFU) and their colleagues from the Institute of Electrophysics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute…
AstronomyAstronomers Develop a New Method to Aid in the Search for Dark Matter Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter—mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only been discerned by the effect…
SportsAhead of the Saudi Grand Prix, the Head of Racing Insists Politics Shouldn’t be a Part of Formula One As Formula One (F1) confronts criticism for permitting a grand prix to take place in Saudi Arabia this weekend, the director of the main international…
TechnologyHow a 51-Year-Old Celebrity Hacker Destabilized One of the Most Influential Social Networks in the World Peiter Zatko was surprised by what he discovered when he joined Twitter as head of security in late 2020 at the behest of the company’s…
HealthHow the Poliovirus Infects Cells from Inside For the first time, researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, can now show how the dreaded poliovirus behaves when it takes over an infected cell and…
PhysicsNew Dynamical Turbulence Framework is discovered by Physicists Physicists have proven – numerically and experimentally – that turbulence in fluid flows can be understood and quantified with the help of a small set…
Plants and AnimalsEven a Few People can Affect the Animals in National Parks According to a new study, even in remote, rarely visited national parks, the presence of even a few humans has an impact on the activity…
AstronomyInvestigating the Supersoft X-ray Light Curve’s Origin Researchers led by Ph.D. candidate Zhao Weitao and Prof. Meng Xiangcun from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Yunnan Observatories reproduced the supersoft X-ray source’s quasi-periodic…