What's Current in

Science + Technology

Image
A visualization of a magnetar with tilted accretion disk and energetic polar jets.
Photo Credit
Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO
A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova.

UCSB researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics

Read Article

On the Horizon

From the Poles to the Stars
Tsimane Family

How We Age

Vaccination Insights

Watching Over the Whales

The Persistence of Plastic

Silent Spread

Future Flooding

Quantum Shake

Seeing Progress