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Nightly suspended animation, sugary diet, backwards flight, and long migrations help.

Supermassive black holes that weigh several billion times the mass of our sun are present at the centers of active galaxies. Astronomers observe them as bright galactic cores where the galaxy's supermassive black hole devours matter from a violent whirlpool called accretion disk. Some of the matter is squeezed out into a powerful jet. This process makes the galactic core shine brightly across the entire…

More than 1,800 scientists and educators have signed an open letter to the NCERT condemning the removal of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution from Class9 and Class 10 science textbooks.

CO2 hydrogenation with green hydrogen is one of the best processes to combat climate change and can provide a single solution to three challenging problems, 1) excessive CO2 levels, 2) the temporal mismatch between solar electricity production and demand, and 3) hydrogen gas storage. However, the CO2 hydrogenation reaction needs very high temperatures, causing quick deactivation of the catalyst.

Six of the most powerful astronomical observatories have captured a stunning image of Abell 2256, which is made of multiple galaxy clusters smashing together

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

The two black holes at the heart of the galaxy OJ 287 are true behemoths with masses of 18.35 billion and 150 million times the mass of our Sun.

Prof. Polshettiwar's group at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai has developed a novel "plasmonic reduction catalyst stable in air," defying the common instability of reduction catalysts in the presence of air. The catalyst merges platinum-doped ruthenium clusters, with "plasmonic black gold." This black gold efficiently harvests visible light and generates numerous hot spots due to plasmonic…

The universe is expanding; we've had evidence of that for about a century. But just how quickly celestial objects are receding from each other is still up for debate.

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk may have revived the race to space, but others are not far behind. It's possible to reach the edge of space efficiently in a balloon.

"Forbidden" Planet Orbiting Small Star Challenges Gas Giant Formation Theories Based on our current understanding of planet formation, TOI-5205b should not exist; it is a "forbidden" planet. A team of astronomers has discovered an unusual planetary system in which a large gas giant planet orbits

Somewhere deep in space, three galaxies find themselves entangled in a spectacular, chaotic dance.

What was the biggest explosion in the Universe?. Ever since the Big Bang, cataclysmic events have released enormous amounts of energy. Here's the greatest one ever witnessed..

Astronomers are stumped.

Here's how the aerial acrobats are able to survive on a nearly all-sugar diet, fly higher than many helicopters can and migrate over the open ocean

Country's effort to counter British colonial legacy has critics worried about promoting pseudoscience

Mitochondria appear to ratchet up their activity when life is going well and tamp it down during hard times

MIT Professor Emeritus Sanjoy Mitter died at 89 after a long career that included leadership positions within the Center for Intelligent Control Systems (CICS) and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Mitter contributed to significant engineering applications, most notably in the control of interconnected power systems and pattern recognition.

Have any gravitational wave signals been scrambled? Today's authors search for this beyond-general relativity effect.

Dibaryons are the subatomic particles made of two baryons. Their formations through baryon-baryon interactions play a fundamental role in big-bang nucleosynthesis, in nuclear reactions including those within stellar environments, and provide a connection between nuclear physics, cosmology and astrophysics.