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Gravitational wave detector LIGO is back online after 3 years of upgrades – how the world’s most sensitive yardstick reveals secrets of the universe
When two massive objects – like black holes or neutron stars – merge, they warp space and time.…
How we stop floating wind turbines the size of skyscrapers from drifting away
Hywind Tampen wind farm, Norway. Karoline Rivero Bernacki/Equinor, CC BY-NC-ND Benjamin Cerfontaine, University of Southampton and Susan Gourvenec,…
Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa
Shutterstock Ray Tobler, Australian National University; Shane T Grey, Garvan Institute, and Yassine Souilmi, University of Adelaide Most…
Astronomers detected two major targets with a single telescope – a mysterious signal and its source galaxy
ASKAP multiple landscape backview. CSIRO Marcin Glowacki, Curtin University Astronomers have been working to better understand the galactic…
Why pain seems worse at night
Shutterstock / New Africa Rocío de la Vega de Carranza, Universidad de Málaga As the song from the…
Tiny but tenacious: arctic-alpine plants are engineers and warning bells
Purple saxifrage, snow pearlwort and drooping saxifrage (left to right). Sarah Watts, Author provided Sarah Watts, University of…
Researchers built an analogue computer that uses water waves to forecast the chaotic future
Shutterstock Ivan Maksymov, Charles Sturt University Can a computer learn from the past and anticipate what will happen…
The secret world of moss, ancient ancestor of all plants and vital for the health of the planet
Macromitrium microstomum is found throughout New Zealand on the trunks or branches of smooth-barked trees, or on rock.…
Climate change first ‘went viral’ exactly 70 years ago
Marc Hudson, University of Sussex We have grown so used to many things. To the pictures of wildfires…
We’re just starting to learn more about aphantasia, the inability to picture things with the mind’s eye
Some people don’t have the ability to create mental images, a condition called aphantasia, but can still experience…