A subtle symphony of ripples in spacetime – astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes
An international team of astronomers has detected a faint signal of gravitational waves reverberating through…
How many types of narcissist are there? A psychology expert sets the record straight
Our interest in narcissism has never been higher, with Google searches for the word “narcissist”…
A neutrino portrait of our galaxy reveals high-energy particles from within the Milky Way
Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the…
Why the super-rich may take more risks than the rest of us
Like most people, I watched the tragedy of the Titan submersible unfold with horror. We…
Researchers can learn a lot with your genetic information, even when you skip survey questions – yesterday’s mode of informed consent doesn’t quite fit today’s biobank studies
Imagine you agreed to be part of a new and exciting long-term research study to…
#BlackLivesMatter Turns 10 | Pew Research Center
Social media, online activism and 10 years of #BlackLivesMatter A Black Lives Matter street sign…
US agencies buy vast quantities of personal information on the open market – a legal scholar explains why and what it means for privacy in the age of AI
Numerous government agencies, including the FBI, Department of Defense, National Security Agency, Treasury Department, Defense…
Meltwater is hydro-fracking Greenland’s ice sheet through millions of hairline cracks – destabilizing its internal structure
I’m striding along the steep bank of a raging white-water torrent, and even though the…
Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
When black holes and other enormously massive, dense objects whirl around one another, they send…
Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea — but new observations demand a radical rethink
Our ideas about the Universe are based on a century-old simplification known as the cosmological…