A new all-sky census of pulsating variable stars shows that rapid rotation fuels their rhythmic heartbeats and links vibration frequencies to stellar aging. Astronomers poring through space telescope data have identified more than 156,000 pulsing stars...

Radio flashes from distant galaxies help astronomers weigh invisible metal reservoirs in the circumgalactic medium. A team of astrophysicists has used signals from 25 fast radio bursts to peer into the invisible gaseous halo surrounding our home...

A routine drainage repair uncovered thousands of priceless royal treasures, but the subsequent excavation left behind a dark and troubling legacy. On a humid afternoon in July 1971, a routine infrastructure project in Gongju, South Korea, inadvertently...

A nationwide study of working-age adults reveals that running a business alone is tied to poorer wellbeing, while employers fare better. Running a business independently might sound like the ultimate path to freedom, but a nationwide study of...

Researchers discover that gray matter volume in key emotional processing regions and pandemic-specific anxiety shape individual shifts in well-being. Brain scans taken before the COVID-19 pandemic can successfully predict how an individual’s life...

New data reveals a massive shift toward permanent settlement and family reunification, reshaping Italian society and childcare demands. Migrant families in Italy have quietly transformed the country over the last twenty-five years, shifting from...

Scientists have uncovered the atmospheric physics behind the strange phenomenon of lighthouses appearing to float or manifest far out at sea. The experience is as disorienting as it is persistent. Observers standing on a coastline often report seeing a...

A new machine learning framework identifies cold, warm, and occluded fronts from space in real time, matching human forecaster agreement. Over the skies of Europe and the Northeast Atlantic, atmospheric boundaries known as cold, warm, and occluded...

A century-long analysis of high-altitude ice reveals a steady descent driven by atmospheric contraction. Ghostly ice clouds shining at the edge of space are slowly sinking toward Earth, according to an extensive new analysis of more than a century of...

Witnesses claimed it fell from the sky, but a startling alleged confession now threatens to unravel the mystery behind the unexplained event. In August 1841, a bizarre and unsettling event unfolded in a tobacco field near Lebanon, Tennessee. Two...

In the largest heist in industry history, over $6 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from Binance users in just 20 minutes. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is reeling from what appears to be the most significant digital asset...

A new dynamic programming approach breaks through a decades-old computational barrier for matrix permanents. Computing the permanent of a square matrix faster than the long-standing exponential barrier has long baffled computer scientists, but a new...

Archaeologists have discovered mysterious ancient bronze artifacts buried in a Polish forest, shedding new light on a long-lost historical enigma. A team of volunteer metal detectorists exploring a remote woodland in northeastern Poland has unearthed a...

Decades after a chance discovery of two ancient bronze statues in the sea, the mystery of the missing shipwreck continues to baffle researchers. It was a sweltering August afternoon in 1972 when Stefano Mariottini, a chemist vacationing on the Ionian...

NASA’s new autonomous navigation system empowers future Moon and Mars landers to detect hazards and autonomously select safer touchdown sites. NASA has successfully validated a new autonomous navigation system designed to steer spacecraft away from...

A newly uncovered mathematical contribution eliminates artificial coordinate dependence in relativistic nuclear fireball simulations. When physicists simulate the extreme matter produced by smashing heavy ions together at near-light speeds, they must...

Numerical simulations reveal a direct path from fractional insulators to unconventional superconductivity without a standard Fermi surface. Physicists have uncovered a direct, continuous phase transition linking a fractional Chern insulator to a...

A novel topological gauge model reveals strict mass-spin bounds and valid thermodynamics without relying on an event horizon. Physicists have constructed the first mathematical black hole solution within a strictly non-relativistic gravitational...

A new survey of thirty-three studies reveals how physicists are teaching quantum processors deep learning secrets, despite severe noise and output hurdles. Physicists are shrinking massive artificial intelligence networks down to compact sub-atomic...

Fresh analysis reveals that current computer models of lunar soil charging rely on unverified assumptions about how electric charges remain trapped underground. High-energy particle radiation from space continuously bombards the airless Moon, deeply...