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In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...
Every crystal's shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of its molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable crystals ...
The carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulb experiments generated the precise amount of heat needed to produce ...
Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...
The New Queer Wave legend upgraded his 2005 classic, using tricks he discovered while making his latest, 'I Want Your Sex,' ...
Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown until a lost portrait surfaced.
Ian Lipkin, an experimental pathologist at Columbia University, is today most famous for discovering more than 2,000 viruses, which earned him the moniker “virus hunter,” over a decades-long career in ...