“By using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile, along with other telescopes, we have measured the mass of a ...

It may come as no surprise that traffic accidents due to distracted driving have increased sharply in recent years. A large percentage of the U.S. population using smartphones and a still relatively ...

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result, they found that the investigated system is a faint eclipsing binary ...

Allison N. Jaynes is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1479, USA. Read the paper: Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves Because ...

Scientists have discovered why Heteroxenia corals pulsate. Their work resolves an old scientific mystery. Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Technion-Israel Institute of ...

Over the course of its life, our Sun will go through several stages of stellar evolution, eventually ending its life as a white dwarf. Now, based on a new finding made by researchers from the ...

Turning on the heater is a reasonable response to a cold environment: switch to a toastier state until it warms up outside. Biologists have long thought cells would respond to their environment in a ...

Scientists have figured out what causes pulsating auroras, a special type of northern lights that blink in the night sky. And it was partly thanks to a lucky observation of the phenomenon in Canada.

Newly released footage of a glowing orb pacing alongside a pair of cargo pilots has been called "very consistent" with decades of other reputable reports. NARCAP/YouTube Newly released footage of a ...

I have a new Viewsonic P225f, only a few months old tops. When I'm sitting here, the monitor is pulsating.<BR><BR>What I mean is that you can see the screen basically getting larger and smaller...at ...