Astronomers Create Most Detailed Map of Gravitational Wave Background to Date
Astronomers using the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array, an international experiment that uses the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in South Africa, have uncovered further evidence of gravitational wave signals originating from merging supermassive black holes. Miles et al. created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the Universe to date. Image credit: Carl Knox / OzGrav
Why ‘Brain Rot’ Is 2024’s Word of the Year
December 3, 2024 2 min read The phrase “brain rot” spiked 230 percent from 2023 to 2024, according to the makers of the Oxford English Dictionary By Ben Guarino edited by Dean Visser Orla/Getty Images “Brain rot” is the official Word of the Year for 2024, according to the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher, Oxford University
Rare Whitefly and Psyllid Insect Fossils Found in New Zealand
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of whiteflies and a psyllid from fossils found in Miocene-period crater lake sediments at Hindon Maar near Dunedin in Otago, South Island of New Zealand. A close-up of two tiny puparia of Miotetraleurodes novaezelandiae attached to an angiosperm leaf. Image credit: Drohojowska et al., doi: 10.1007/s12549-024-00628-z. Adult
Health Care Isn’t Working for Homebound Older Adults Living Alone
Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern. “What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program. “I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the
Physicists Map Out Quantum Entanglement in Protons
Physicists have found a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons. Their approach uses quantum information science to map out how particle tracks streaming from electron-proton collisions are influenced by quantum entanglement inside the proton. The results reveal that quarks and gluons, the fundamental building blocks that make up
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