Dozens of runaway stars were captured fleeing a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The cluster of fast-moving stars may mean that such runaways had a greater influence on cosmic evolution than previously thought, astronomers report Oct. 9 in Nature. Massive stars are born in new clusters, packed so close […]

As artificial intelligence explodes in popularity, two of its pioneers have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. The award goes to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for fundamental discoveries and inventions enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced on Oct. 8. These computational tools, […]

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid that keeps pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, are already known for the other three giant planets. “Saturn was kind of the odd man out, if I can call it that, because even though it’s the second most massive planet in […]

Wind ownership is available. As an unpaid intern at an energy company in England, Emilia Groupp spent two years creating wind maps for renewable energy development. Colleagues told Groupp to ignore the wind blowing across British borders, saying things like, “Oh, we don’t want French wind,” recalled Groupp, an energy anthropologist at Stanford University. The […]