A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

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If you're going to Mars you'd best take along a jar of anti-aging cream because while you're there you're going to age faster ...

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Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

An interview with Marumi Kado highlights the challenges and opportunities of the Future Circular Collider in particle physics ...

The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

SOL Shogunate is an deeply ambitious effort from Chaos Manufacturing that fuses samurai history with sci-fi action.

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Researchers at TU Wien have integrated quantum physics with general relativity, revealing significant departures from ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...