All Stories by Lisa Grossman
- Physics
Just a stone’s throw forms a supersonic jet
Objects hitting water can move air at the speed of sound.
- Life
Alligators breathe like birds
Tricky measurements of flow reveal that air moves through the animal in one direction.
- Space
Saving the Earth with dynamical simulations
A new model suggests how protoplanets kept a safe distance from the sun.
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- Space
Comets don’t all start out on the fringe
A new model suggests that comets also come from the inner Oort Cloud and offers a way to resolve a massive problem about the early solar system.
- Space
Parting Eta Carinae’s clouds reveals more clouds
New images show the nearby star system's inner beauty.
- Space
Plenty of black holes do-si-do
Team finds 33 merging galaxies with 'waltzing' black-hole pairs, suggesting the phenomenon is more common than thought.
- Earth
Age of solar system needs a fresh look
Honed measurements show age overshot by amount significant to earliest stage of formation.
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The Ties That Bind
Studies of human social networks go high-tech.
- Space
Super-Earth found close by, may host water
Astronomers say this discovery and others suggest that finding habitable planets is 'only a matter of time.'
- Humans
Stereotypes steer women away from computer science
Surveys, tests of college students shows how surroundings can 'communicate a sense of belonging' or 'exclusion.'
- Life
Dinosaurs broiled, not grilled
Debris from K-T impact could have been heat source and heat shield.
