Abstractions blog

How do black holes merge and make gravitational waves? Maybe with a little help from their friends.

Researchers found that elongating certain brain signals in rats improved their memory. The work revealed a new property to look out for in the hunt for “biomarkers” of learning.

Experimenters in Germany have glimpsed the kind of strange, non-atomic matter thought to fill the cores of merging neutron stars.

For the first time, researchers have created a scale model of the twisting loops of the sun’s magnetic field.

Tiny, dim “dwarf” galaxies have been found to hide gas-spewing black holes.

Researchers are getting close to building a quantum computer that can perform tasks a classical computer can’t. Here’s what the milestone will mean.

Although Einstein’s theory of space-time seems more complicated than Newtonian physics, it greatly simplified the mathematical description of the universe.

By studying a swarm of flying midges as though it were a fluid, physicists have learned how collective behaviors might stabilize a group against environmental disruptions.

Randomness would seem to make a mathematical statement harder to prove. In fact, it often does the opposite.