Picturesque towns across central Europe are inundated by dirty flood water after heavy weekend rains turned tranquil streams into raging rivers that wreaked havoc on infrastructure. The floods have killed at least 15 people and destroyed buildings from Austria to Romania. The destruction comes after...
photo: AP / Krzysztof Zatycki
It was the great German doctor and Nobel laureate Otto Warburg who, back in 1921, discovered that cancer cells don't use sugar as fuel the way we thought they would. Rather than "burning" sugar using oxygen like most cells in our body prefer, cancer cells adopt a tactic known to be used by...
photo: National Cancer Institute
A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the Milky Way. Called, dramatically enough, the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this region is located 58,000 light-years away from the center of the galaxy, which is more than twice the...
photo: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Ressler (JPL)
photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls
Galaxy collisions are foundational events in the Universe. They happen when two systems mingle stars in a cosmic dance. They also cause spectacular mergers of supermassive black holes. The result is one very changed galaxy and a singular, ultra-massive black hole. These colossal events are a major...
photo: NASA, ESA, Anna Trindade Falcão (CfA)
