Solar prominences occur when the sun’s plasma, flowing along the magnetic field lines that the sun creates, forms a loop into space along the edge of the sun’s disk. When a prominence becomes ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

The astronomer Edmond Halley, the namesake for Halley’s comet, linked the northern lights to the Earth’s magnetic field, ...

In 2023, a team of physicists from Sandia National Laboratories announced a major discovery: a way to steer LED light. If ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

Learning female head anatomy is an essential starting point for beginners who want to draw portraits with confidence and accuracy. This guide introduces a clear and practical approach that simplifies ...

The heavens have a habit of throwing us a curveball just when we think we have the cosmos figured out. The latest arrival, a mysterious interstellar interloper dubbed 3I/ATLAS (officially designated C ...

Aalto University researchers have developed a method to execute AI tensor operations using just one pass of light. By encoding data directly into light waves, they enable calculations to occur ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What astronomers initially suspected to be a new exoplanet is ...

In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism are related. A new study revealed that the magnetic component of light ...

I believe we are made of two things: love and light. Perhaps that sounds like wispy new-age speak, but my personal sense of faith tells me that love is the directive force in the universe. Love is ...

When physicists at the University of Konstanz shone a flash of light on a simple iron crystal, they weren’t expecting to watch the rules of matter change before their eyes. Yet that seems to be what ...