From collisions to stellar cannibalism—the surprising diversity of exploding white dwarfs
Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...
Underwater Mediterranean Sea telescope records most energetic neutrino ever observed
The KM3NeT telescope comprises two detectors, ARCA and ORCA, utilizing seawater to capture Cherenkov light—a bluish glow ...
3.5 kilometers underwater, scientists found a staggeringly energetic particle from outer space
Three and a half kilometers beneath the Mediterranean Sea, around 80km off the coast of Sicily, lies half of a very unusual telescope called KM3NeT.
15 Things You Might Not Know About Robert Altman
The seven-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind M*A*S*H and Gosford Park, who would have turned 100 this year, changed how we ...
7 Facts About ‘Titanic’ Survivor Violet Jessop
Violet Jessop settled into her bunk on the Titanic, where she worked as a stewardess. She flipped through some magazines, ...