Strange

DiagnosisCredit...Photo illustration by Ina JangAug. 27, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ETThe 73-year-old man looked up at the clear summer sky — the morning was nearly gone. He had finished mowing the main part of his lawn and was trimming the edges near the shrubbery with the weed wacker. He wanted to finish before the sun and…

By Jonathan O’Callaghan A composite image of the ASKAP radio telescope gives an idea of how fast radio burst signals are spread outICRAR and CSIRO/Alex Cherney One space mystery has helped solve another, with the discovery that strange space radio signals can help pin down the universe’s missing matter. While dark matter often grabs the…

Watching birds is great entertainment, and there's fascinating physics behind how some get their colours, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Life | Comment 20 May 2020 RooM the Agency / Alamy HERE in New Hampshire, I live next to a wooded area, and covid-19 means that I have been spending a lot of time at home. This…

By Leah Crane A strange explosion in space, nicknamed “the Cow”, is becoming less mysteriousAlamy/NASA/JPL-Caltech A strange explosion in space is starting to reveal its secrets. In 2018, astronomers spotted an extraordinarily fast and bright explosion unlike anything we had ever seen before, and now they are starting to narrow down what could have caused…