Topic: science and technology

China's FAST radio telescope
| July 28, 2023

International team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins for “bursts” and “pulses," which adds to FRB formation theory.
 

illustration of a microquasar in outer space
| July 26, 2023

An international team of scientists reports in Nature the first detection of a quasi-periodic oscillation signal in the radio band from a Galactic black hole system.

image from the James Webb telescope
| June 16, 2023

From de facto time machines to the story behind your TV static, UNLV cosmologist and computer scientist Paul La Plante shares four facts you probably didn’t know about the universe.

AI-generated image of a workshop
| May 19, 2023

Instructors and employees explored ChatGPT, artificial intelligence detection, and other tools with technology professionals from the online education and information technology offices.