Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...

There’s a shocking lack of understanding of the physics underlying this commonplace phenomenon, but researchers are on the ...

Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star or "magnetar" for the first time. The observation of this event, triggered by the death ...

THIS is truly a tech miracle. Apple has created a MacBook that millions of people can buy for £499/$499 – and it’s actually very good. It’s called the MacBook Neo, and if I hadn’t seen it with my ...

You’ve probably already heard the basics: put down your phone, drink some chamomile tea, try melatonin. None of that advice is wrong. But if you’re still staring at the ceiling at 1 a.m., it’s because ...

Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon checks out a new interactive exhibit in the Connecticut Science Center's Forces in Motion area. Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon learns how to pop a balloon with an orange ...

Scientists discovered “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating how the facility has evolved to support quantum computing research. Researchers at ATLAS observed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Look up at the sky on Monday, Feb. 2, and you may notice a certain bright star is hidden from view. This special celestial event — ...

As an encore to this weekend's snowstorm, the region is experiencing some of the coldest temperatures in decades, and it could be another week before temperatures climb above freezing again. The last ...

This week I spent a couple of days at the Magic Castle in Hollywood with my friend and master magician Andrew Mayne and five other magicians. The theme of the weeklong show was "Science versus Magic." ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural polymers don’t. By mimicking tiny structural features used in DNA and proteins ...

Pluribus season one has ended. As the wait for season two of the Apple TV series begins, newly minted fans of lead actor Rhea Seehorn are discovering something fans of her work on Better Call Saul ...