Black Hole

I have recently come back from a wonderful photo journey to shoot the total solar eclipse that took place July 2nd in South America. This was going to be my first total eclipse experience, and I was very motivated to make the most out of it. Northern Argenti…

More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic general theory of relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. Now, in the most comprehensive test of general relativity near the mo…

Black holes are the perfect place to put Einstein’s greatest theory to the test MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY By Leah Crane At the centre of the Milky Way, Einsteins laws rule. Measurements of light from a star that orbits close to our galaxys central…

More than 100 years after Albert Einstein published his iconic theory of general relativity, it is beginning to fray at the edges, said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy. Now, in the most comprehensive test of general relativity near the mo…

Nintendo will delete Mario Maker levels from its servers for any number of reasons, be they glitches, inappropriate content, or unspecified offenses that leave creators baffled. This practice can be frustrating, but it was previously confined to levels that h…

Crafty caterpillars have repurposed an acid normally deployed against predators as a defence against plants that ooze a sticky, dangerous goo. Before they transform into moths, Theroa zethus larvae gorge themselves on plants in the Euphorbiaceae family. This…

Crafty caterpillars have repurposed an acid normally deployed against predators as a defence against plants that ooze a sticky, dangerous goo. Before they transform into moths, Theroa zethus larvae gorge themselves on plants in the Euphorbiaceae family. This…

Overwatch hero 31 is here and he's a new tank named Sigma.Sigma is an eccentric scientist from the Netherlands whose obsession with astrophysics ended very poorly for him. Now a living weapon, Sigma can control gravity. His unstable mental state led to his in…

A somewhat disturbing origin video describes him as an "eccentric astrophysicist" who is "unaware he's been turning into a living weapon." In the clip, he describes how his goal was to unlock the secrets of the universe and that "if the unifying theories are …

After a series of teases that culminated in the apparent demise of Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan, Blizzard has revealed the games latest hero. His name is Sigma, and he has the power to see math. Also, perhaps related to that, he can control gravity. Today,…