A cloud of dust and gas revolving around the infant star system 1,300 light-years away, we are not yet like a disk forming a planet. It consists of three rings, wrapped around three stars – and all three rings have different directions, with the other two incorrectly connected. It is …
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As autumn arrives quickly, many are wondering whether the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021. I am a physician-scientist and specialist in infectious diseases at the University of Virginia, where I care for and examine patients for COVID-19. I am sometimes asked how I …
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About 15,000 light-years away, an active black hole periodically appears to illuminate another unremarkable cloud of gas with gamma rays. But there is a catch. The gas cloud is about 100 light-years from the black hole – and just how the cloud pulsates with it in time is a mystery. …
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One of the main challenges in turning quantum technology from potential to reality is getting superfine quantum states to last longer than a few milliseconds – and scientists are simply lifting the bar by a factor of about 10,000. They did this by tackling what is called decoherence: that is, …
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The moon of Jupiter Ganymede is a rather special rock of rock. It is the largest and most massive moon in the solar system. It is the only moon of the Solar System that generates its own magnetic field. It has the most liquid water of any body of the …
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