July 24, 2026

The first extrasolar moon? Jupiter-mass body discovered around brown dwarf

The first extrasolar moon? Jupiter-mass body discovered around brown dwarf

Astronomers have detected periodic oscillations in the brown dwarf CD-35 2722 B, indicating a gaseous body orbiting it every 170 days. The discovery could be the first convincing identification of a natural satellite outside the solar system.
The Double Life of Felix Hausdorff

The Double Life of Felix Hausdorff

One of the founders of modern topology was also a writer, poet, and philosopher who published under the name Paul Mongera. His life ranged between Germany's scientific and cultural elite and exclusion and persecution due to his Jewishness under the Nazi regime.
Anger. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How fulfilling a violated need can open a path to reconciliation

The research of Dr. Ma'an Katzir from Bar-Ilan University examines how psychological needs that are affected by conflict translate into emotions such as anger and fear - and how meeting a need, even from a third party, may reduce negative emotions and increase
Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Frances Arnold in her laboratory

When scientists press the red button

Every year, scientific articles are retracted from journals due to errors, irreproducible findings, forgeries, or conflicts of interest. How science's correction mechanisms work, and why retracting an article is not necessarily evidence of failure