Despite the CIA’s best efforts during the Cold War, using cats as spies became, unsurprisingly, a disaster. The 1960s were a wild time for the CIA. When they weren’t dosing each other with acid or ...

Military history is filled with inventions that sounded absurd at first, from bat carried incendiary devices to exploding ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

The findings confirm a theory first proposed 16 years ago by University of California, Berkeley theoretical astrophysicist Dan Kasen. Kasen and his colleagues hypothesized that at least some ...

A collaboration between a leading British supercomputing center and South Africa's national astronomical observatory is using artificial intelligence to ...

An artist's impression of a magnetar with a wobbly accretion disk. (Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully) A never-before-seen 'chirp' in the light of an exploding star has revealed new clues about the ...

BRAINIAC LIVE, the Olivier Award-winning show, will tour the UK this spring, offering a dynamic blend of science and entertainment.

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar — a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star — and confirmed that it's the power ...

Researchers say the "powerful engine" behind superluminous exploding stars had been hidden for years — until a "chirp" from the cosmos helped confirm their link.

Launching rockets may seem like a lofty goal achieved only at major companies like NASA and SpaceX, yet UC Santa Barbara ...

Snowy owls are beautiful and lovable, just ask any Harry Potter fan. But paparazzi are making their life difficult, and ...