Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era when vast swaths of hydrogen and helium gas gathered into the chains of galaxies we see … Read more
Abstract:It is widely repeated in the popular literature and elsewhere that the singularity at the center of a black hole is a point. It is not true. Two observers who free-fall into a spherical black hole along two different angular … Read more
An international research team has found that primordial black holes may trigger white dwarf stars to explode as Type Ia supernovae. These unusual explosions could also help explain a chemical abundance pattern observed among stars in the Milky Way, according … Read more
On the Biology of a Large Language Model (Anthropic, 2025) LLMs are not the “black box” you were promised. Mechanistic interpretability — peering into a neural network to reverse engineer its inner workings — has made major strides. Anthropic’s On … Read more
Gravitational waves—ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic events—travel at the speed of light in every direction, eventually fading out like ripples in water. But some events are so destructive and extreme that they create disturbances in spacetime more like … Read more
A rare black iceberg spotted off the coast of Labrador is making a splash on social media after a fish harvester living in Carbonear, N.L., took a photo of it while fishing for shrimp last month. Originally from the Faroe … Read more
Seoul, South Korea CNN — Flight recorders from the passenger jet that crashed in South Korea last month, killing more than 170 people, stopped working minutes before the plane belly-landed and exploded on the runway, investigators said Saturday. Officials probing … Read more
Applied offensive security with the Rust programming language While the Rust Book does an excellent job teaching What is Rust, a book about Why and How to Rust was missing. Whether in movies or mainstream media, hackers are often romanticized: … Read more
101 captains 101 starship captains, bored with life in the Federation, decide to arrange their starships in a line, equally spaced, and let them fall straight into an enormous spherically symmetrical black hole—one right after the other. What does the … Read more
Modern biomanufacturing processes are both increasinglycapable and complex – involving hundreds of steps and specialized equipment. To prove that a product was manufactured to specification, rigorous documentation practices are used to track the process through every step: “the process is … Read more