Just when you thought it was safe to go back to ignoring Betelgeuse, the red giant star began to reappear. After its first round of dimming, and then clear, Betelgeuse has now once again started dimming again. Moreover, this new dimming is consistent with the current cycle of Betelgeuse variation …
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NASA is actively monitoring an early anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field: a gigantic region with lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, which extends between South America and southwest Africa. This large, evolving phenomenon, called the South Atlantic Anomaly, has intrigued and troubled scientists for years, and …
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The existence of time crystals – a particularly fascinating state of matter – was confirmed only a few short years ago, but physicists have already made a pretty big breakthrough: they have induced an interaction and observed between two time crystals. In a superfluid helium-3, crystals exchange quasi-particles twice without …
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It could be a brother or sister. It could be neighbor. It could be a person you work with. We probably all know someone who does not have a mask in public, although it is mandatory as recommended where you live. The media are quick to point out people who …
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If you ever looked up during a thunderclap and a red jellyfish looked high in the air, you were not hallucinating. These tentacle-like spurts of red lightning are called sprites. They are ultra-fast bursts of electricity that creep through the upper regions of the atmosphere – between 37 and 50 …
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