It may come as no surprise that traffic accidents due to distracted driving have increased sharply in recent years. A large percentage of the U.S. population using smartphones and a still relatively ...

“By using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile, along with other telescopes, we have measured the mass of a ...

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result, they found that the investigated system is a faint eclipsing binary ...

If you've been lucky enough to catch sight of an aurora, it probably looked like a glowing green curtain dancing across the sky. But there's a second, rarer type of aurora—and now, scientists have ...

Over the course of its life, our Sun will go through several stages of stellar evolution, eventually ending its life as a white dwarf. Now, based on a new finding made by researchers from the ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, European astronomers have observed ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in the galaxy NGC 4631. As a result, they detected a new pulsating ULX, which received the ...

A pulsating star’s song could be the result of fractals at play. Pressure changes inside a star can make portions of its surface expand and contract, so observers see it appearing to “breathe” as its ...

Scientists have figured out what causes pulsating auroras, a special type of northern lights that blink in the night sky. And it was partly thanks to a lucky observation of the phenomenon in Canada.

I have a new Viewsonic P225f, only a few months old tops. When I'm sitting here, the monitor is pulsating.<BR><BR>What I mean is that you can see the screen basically getting larger and smaller...at ...

The new results, from a team led by Grzegorz Pietrzyski (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile, Obserwatorium Astronomiczne Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Poland), appear in the 25 November 2010 edition of ...