Magnetism is usually taught as a story of straight lines, with field arrows marching neatly from north to south. In a lab at Florida State University, that picture has just been shattered by a new ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...

Map of material distribution in the disk around protostar G358-MM1. The white “+” marks the location of the protostar. The contour lines indicate signal strength. The colors represent the ...

Three billion years after the big bang most galaxies were clumpy and odd-shaped, but at least one had already assumed a familiar form, and may elucidate how modern galaxies got their shapes The early ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Alaknanda, a remarkably mature spiral galaxy existing just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. This well-organized structure, complete with a disc and ...

Jan Van Hese was born in 1965 inSint-Niklaas, Belgium. He obtained his degree as an electricalengineer in 1988 at the University of Gent, Belgium and obtained aPh.D. on the topic of electromagnetic ...

TokyoFlash has another weird and wonderful concept watch design on show, looking to make the jump from concept to production over on its website, called the Spiral. The Spiral watch, as you would ...

An optical illusion is a visual phenomenon where our perception of thinking about an image differs from objective reality. This image is seen as a Black-and-White Checkered Spiral Pattern Optical ...

Early in the story of the universe, long before galaxies like the Milky Way were expected to take shape, astronomers have now identified a system that already looks strikingly familiar. Researchers at ...