Space
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Astronomy
Supermassive black hole rises and shines
Astronomers may have witnessed the activation of a dormant supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy.
- Space
Gravity Probe B finally pays off
A half century in the making, an orbiting experiment finally confirms Einstein's general relativity.
- Space
Signs of dark matter from Minnesota mine
An underground experiment in the U.S. bolsters the case that Earth plows through a halo of dark matter particles.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
A world record for atom smashing, plus black hole threesomes, a volcanic Mars and more in this week’s news.
- Space
Rumors of a Higgs discovery are just that
Speculation suggests that a long-sought particle may be at hand, but most physicists remain skeptical.
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- Space
Science on the penultimate space shuttle
Endeavour carries $2-billion experiment to hunt for exotic physics.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Clearing out space junk with dust, plus new black holes, sonic-boom star birth and more in this week’s news.
- Space
Dry ice, wetter Mars
A previously unknown reservoir of frozen carbon dioxide could periodically vaporize, thickening the atmosphere and allowing liquid water to flow on the Red Planet’s surface.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
How to hunt for extraterrestrials, plus cosmic bursts, horseshoe orbits and more in this week’s news.
- Space
NASA pulls out of astrophysics missions
Europe is now on its own for two planned spacecraft to study black holes and gravitational waves.
- Physics
Time travel nixed in metamaterial world
A desktop universe captures essential properties of the real thing.
