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NASA: With A Deadly Embrace, 'Spidery' Pulsars Consume Their Mates
Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as redbacks, are notorious for their tainted love, expressed as an unsettling tendency to kill and devour their male partners. Astronomers have noted similar behavior among two rare breeds of binary system that contain rapidly spinning neutron stars, also known as pulsars.
Cosmic Rays on Demand
In a SLAC test facility, scientists have set the stage for an experiment that mimics what happens when incredibly energetic cosmic ray particles hit our atmosphere. While the experiment is part of ANITA, which sends balloon-borne instruments into the upper atmosphere, the results could benefit a broad range of other experiments.
Symmetry: Virtual Field Trips Take Students into the Labs
Teachers are using Google+ to bring their classes behind the scenes at national laboratories and to teach students about careers in STEM.
Symmetry: Scientists Pinpoint 'Very Peculiar' Pulsar
Scientists studying five years of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the first gamma-ray variable pulsar. But is it really what it seems?
Symmetry: Citizen Scientists Discover Hidden Galaxies at Record Speed
The distant universe looks a little clearer, thanks to tens of thousands of citizen scientists who classified more than 6 million images over the past three days.
Symmetry: Astrophysicists Use Lens to Study Black-Hole Jet
Using an entire galaxy as a lens to look at an object in the far distance, researchers are learning more about powerful jets emitted when matter falls into a black hole.
SLAC Research Makes Science Magazine's Top 10 of 2013
Editors of the journal Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, have selected their annual Top 10 Science Breakthroughs of the Year. On the list: Work by SLAC researchers pinning down the origin of cosmic rays.
Public Lecture—Here Be Monsters: Tales of the Hot Universe
In this talk, we embark on a remarkable adventure that explores the hottest and most powerful objects in the universe.
Symmetry: The Universe's Earliest Moments
How is it possible to look at the earliest moments of the universe? Physicists have their ways—and what they find out will tell us a lot about how the universe works today and how it will unfold in the future.
The Seven Biggest Questions in Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
SLAC's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) recently hosted many of the top scientists in the field to discuss the most important questions to confront in the coming decade.
