Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are some of the most enigmatic radio signals in the universe. First, they are brief. Typically, an FRB lasts just a fraction of a second. They are also bright — so bright they ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

A new study led by the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has detected quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) ...

image: Astronomers detected a persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to flash with surprising regularity. Named FRB 20191221A, this fast radio burst, or FRB, is currently the ...

A graduate student is spearheading an extraordinary scientific endeavor -- a groundbreaking mission to uncover periodic signals emanating from the core of the Milky Way called the Breakthrough Listen ...

A radio signal nearly 9 billion light-years away from Earth was captured in a new recording, detected by India's Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. McGill University said in a release that this marked ...

Physicists have shown for the first time that electrical signals in the human brain are amplified by noise. This effect is called ‘stochastic resonance’ and is well known in a wide range of systems, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected a radio signal from a far-off ...

A mysterious radio burst with a pattern similar to a heartbeat has been detected in space. Astronomers estimate that the signal came from a galaxy roughly a billion light-years away, but the exact ...

I enthusiastically join thousands of other chemists in appreciating the articles on the periodic table. I suggest that at the end of the year you gather them up into a special issue—it would be a ...

May 30, 2023, Mountain View, CA – Akshay Suresh, a graduate student at Cornell University, spearheads an extraordinary scientific endeavor -- a groundbreaking mission to uncover periodic signals ...