A Movie of the Evolving Universe, Potentially Scary

Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica’s Lake Mercer [Video]

Share this on WhatsApp Have you ever wondered what the subglacial lakes of Antarctica look like? I have. In this video, a team of American scientists led by Dr. John Priscu of Montana State University and including Dr. Trista Vick-Majors, lead author of a new study on Subglacial Lake Whillans, take a peek at subglacial Lake […]

Readers Respond to the March 2020 Issue

Share this on WhatsApp Scientific American July 2020 Letters to the editor from the March 2020 issue of Scientific American MULTIVERSAL CONFLUENCE “A Cosmic Crisis,” by Richard Panek, discusses possible reasons why the two methods used to measure the universe’s rate of expansion find conflicting values—a discrepancy known as the Hubble tension. I am puzzled […]

JWST Captures Stunning Image of Rings around Uranus

Share this on WhatsApp The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an amazing image of Uranus, showing in great detail the ice giant’s ring system, its brightest moons and its dynamic atmosphere.  The new observation, made on Feb. 6, follows a similarly stunning photo JWST captured recently of the solar system’s other ice giant, Neptune.  The new Uranus image […]