A Mysterious Flash From a Faraway Galaxy
By DENNIS OVERBYE Astronomers are puzzled by X-rays that for a brief time were a thousand times brighter […]
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Unmasking the Fearsome Face of a Tyrannosaur
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR A newly discovered relative to T. rex shows the dinosaurs’ family had a scaly […]
In Poland’s Crooked Forest, a Mystery With No Straight Answer
By JOANNA KLEIN Hundreds of pine trees outside of Gryfino, Poland, have a strange bend, and all point […]
3D 67P
Get out your red/cyan glasses and gaze across the surface of Churyumov-Gerasimenko, aka Comet 67P. The stereo anaglyph […]
SpaceX Launches a Satellite With a Partly Used Rocket
By KENNETH CHANG The use of a rocket booster that had flown once before may open an era […]
SpaceX Launch Feels Familiar for Part of the Falcon 9 ...
By KENNETH CHANG On Thursday, SpaceX will try to launch a cheaper, partiallyused rocket to take a communications […]
Little Tropical Fish With a Big, Venomous Bite
By STEPH YIN With their large lower canines, fang blennies deliver opioid-laced venom that seems to cause a […]
Meet Evatar: The Lab Model That Mimics the Female Reproductive ...
By CHRISTINE HAUSER Researchers hope the model, fashioned from human and mouse tissue, will help with research into […]
Nebula with Laser Beams
Four laser beams cut across this startling image of the Orion Nebula, as seen from ESO’s Paranal Observatory […]
King of Wings Hoodoo under the Milky Way
This rock structure is not only surreal — it’s real. The reason it’s not more famous is that […]