If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut into them. Why? [Mr Carlson] has the answer in the video below. The short answer: you can ...

A small Finland-based startup claims to have made a big, solid-state battery breakthrough. Now, the industry is asking for ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, chaotic clouds of debris shaped like cauliflowers. But supernova remnant Pa 30 ...

Kosta is a veteran gaming journalist that cut his teeth on well-respected Aussie publications like PC PowerPlay and HYPER back when articles were printed on paper. A lifelong gamer since the 8-bit ...

New high-resolution images show that novae are anything but simple stellar fireworks. One exploded with multiple gas streams colliding almost immediately, while another shockingly delayed its eruption ...

Industry expert Michael Sura does the detective work and comes up with a hypothesis on how an Indian PhD’s “Solid-State ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr Bernadette Hard fell ill while abroad with a headache so severe she could hardly move - but had no idea what was wrong with her ...

Fire likely ignited by sparklers attached to champagne bottles, prosecutor says At least 40 killed, 119 injured, some still fighting for their lives Video verified by Reuters shows young man trying to ...

Settled in a seaside hotel during a late fall vacation, I had a quick breakfast overlooking the Pacific Ocean and brought back a few things for a family member, including hard-boiled eggs. The ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...