Scientists have struggled for years to explain the mysterious mechanism inside tokamaks, donut-shaped machines designed to one day generate electricity by fusing atoms together. Inside these devices, superheated plasma is held in place by gravity. Some of those particles eventually escape from the back and head towards the smoke chamber, called the divertor. When the … Read more
A Rutgers astronomer is helping to investigate a mysterious cosmic phenomenon that has left astronomers searching for answers. At the heart of this mystery is an unusually powerful explosion in space that lasted longer than anything ever seen. NASA has announced that researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed GRB 250702B, a long … Read more
The universe is as nervous as the Earth or the Moon. From The launch of Hubble and the James Webb Telescopeswe have discovered many new things about the universe, and we are beginning to know what is out there. Astronomers have been mapping certain regions of space for a while, and they recently made a … Read more
For decades, Saturn has played a surprising trick on scientists. Depending on how they measured it, the giant planet appeared to be rotating at different speeds, which shouldn’t be the case for a rotating solid body. This surprising discrepancy has challenged planetary physics and raised doubts about how scientists interpret signals from distant worlds. Now, … Read more
For more than 20 years, astronomers have been puzzled by the amazing pattern of bright, evenly spaced lines in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar, a dense supernova remnant recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1054. In 2024, an astronomer at the University of Kansas proposed a solution that explains the size of this … Read more