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A new study conjectures that simple thermodynamics principles can predict the final state of a non-spinning binary black hole ...

Eye of the storm: Data was taken with the MOTHRA telescope, which is still under construction in Chile (Courtesy: NASA, ESA, C. R. O’Dell (Vanderbilt University) and M. Meixner, P. McCullough and G.

How Models and Probability Help us Make Sense of the Cosmos by Andrew H Jaffe All scientific inquiry involves some kind of uncertainty, but the uncertainties in cosmology are particularly daunting. As ...

Heat flows from hot objects to cold objects – or does it? Although unidirectional heat flow is a natural consequence of the ...

Solar swirls The spectacular image was taken by the Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope based in Hawaii. (Courtesy: ...

Physicists measure these nuclear collision energies in kiloelectronvolts (keV). Today’s fusion reactors tend to operate ...

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Growing blood vessels MIT engineers are using mechanical stretching to control how artificial arteries sprout new capillaries. (Courtesy: Ritu Raman) Tissue engineering offers a means to restore, ...

Black holes are objects so dense that their gravitational pull prevents anything – even light – from escaping them. The “point of no return” of any object falling into a black hole is called the event ...