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2020 in Review

The Year in Physics

By Michael Moyer
December 23, 2020
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Featuring paradoxical black holes, room-temperature superconductors and a new escape from the prison of time.

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A Surprise Discovery Points to the Source of Fast Radio Bursts

By Shannon Hall
June 11, 2020
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After a burst lit up their telescope “like a Christmas tree,” astronomers were able to finally track down the source of these cosmic oddities.

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Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars

By Elizabeth Landau
November 11, 2019
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How a young celebrity became one of the first female astronomers at Caltech, befriended Richard Feynman, and ended up the world’s foremost chronicler of the science of the night sky.

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With a Second Repeating Radio Burst, Astronomers Close In on an Explanation

By Joshua Sokol
February 28, 2019
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Brief cosmic blips called fast radio bursts have puzzled astronomers since their discovery earlier this decade. Now researchers appear to be close to understanding what powers them.

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Astronomers Trace Radio Burst to Extreme Cosmic Neighborhood

By Katia Moskvitch
January 10, 2018
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A mysterious object that repeatedly bursts with ultra-powerful radio waves must live in an extreme environment — something like the one around a supermassive black hole.

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Ultra-Powerful Radio Bursts May Be Getting a Cosmic Boost

By Katia Moskvitch
October 10, 2017
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Repeating radio bursts are among the most mysterious phenomena in the universe. A new theory explores how some of their puzzling properties can be explained by galactic lenses made of plasma.

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A Cosmic Burst Repeats, Deepen­ing a Mystery

By Katia Moskvitch
April 18, 2017
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After a surprise discovery, astrophysicists are racing to understand superenergetic flashes of radio waves that sometimes beep out from distant galaxies.

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