Ryan F. Mandelbaum's posts

This week, the New York Times introduced many of us to the “murder hornet,” more accurately known as the Asian…

This black hole—if that’s really what it is—is so close to Earth that you can see its star system without a…

Single-celled organisms like Escherichia coli and yeast can grow and survive in an atmosphere like the kind…

When I first saw an image of the Asian giant hornet, now famously referred to as the “Murder Hornet,” my first…

Astronomers and physicists continue to pursue the answers to the universe’s deepest questions, but on many matters,…

Despite the stereotype of a lone, wild-haired Einstein working tirelessly at a chalkboard, today’s biggest…

Last year, scientists published a paper with an iconic diagram: a black circle representing, to scale, a…

Astronomers just spotted an extremely bright burst of radio waves emanating from within our own galaxy. The…

A new study has found that the impacts of deep sea mining are still felt a quarter of a century later.

An incredible skeleton unearthed in Madagascar over 20 years ago has finally been studied in detail. The…

The Hubble Space Telescope didn’t rest during its recent 30th anniversary celebration. Instead, it watched the comet…

Last fall, the birdwatching community was shocked by the appearance of a skulking yellow bird. Birder Matthew Grube…

Baking sourdough bread has become a cliché of non-essential privilege in the social isolation era. It’s a…

A team of scientists think they’ve found the oldest evidence of a meteorite striking and killing a person, according…

Hot damn, look at the freakin’ Moon!

Astronomers think they’ve found an entire population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system,…

Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, physicist, and CEO of software company Wolfram Research (behind Wolfram Alpha…

This past week, assistant zoology professor Daniel Baldassarre at SUNY Oswego published a paper in a supposedly scien…

Some of you probably wish you could be onboard BepiColombo right now, as the space probe whizzes far away from…

A team of astronomers shocked the world back in 2016 when they revealed evidence of an Earth-sized exoplanet in the…