Strange, Record-Breaking Gamma-Ray Explosion Lasted 7 Hours and Defies Explanation

Data collected using multiple NSF NOIRLab facilities reveal a gamma-ray burst that lasted more than seven hours and ...
Earth.com

Astronomers locate the origin of the longest gamma-ray burst ever detected

A seven-hour gamma-ray burst, GRB 250702B, stuns astronomers and hints at powerful new cosmic engines still unknown to science.
Sports Illustrated

Rays Will Have to Explore Trading Outfielders To Alleviate Logjam

The Tampa Bay Rays will be heading into the winter meetings as a team to watch with a few needs and potentially some players to trade as well. Coming into the offseason, the Rays figured to be a team ...
The New York Times

Sharks and Rays Gain Sweeping Protections From Wildlife Trade

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline. By Alexa Robles-Gil Last week, the world’s leading wildlife trade agreement ...
Tampa Bay Times

Amid overall need for improvement, Rays have to boost starting pitching

Marc Topkin is a sports reporter covering the Tampa Bay Rays. Reach him at [email protected]. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber to contribute. Log in ...
Science Daily

Scientists may have found dark matter after 100 years of searching

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...
THE WEEK

Political cartoons for November 28

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the ...
Live Science

Did a NASA telescope really 'see' dark matter? Strange gamma-rays spark bold claims, but scientists urge caution

A new study says observations from the NASA Fermi space telescope suggest a halo of dark matter around the center of our galaxy, but more information is needed to confirm the result. When you purchase ...
Phys.org

Astronomers capture an exceptional gamma-ray flare from a blazar

Astronomers have performed very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of a gamma-ray loud blazar known as TXS 2013+370. The observations, posted November 19 on the arXiv preprint server, ...
C&EN

A New Pulsed Neutron-Gamma Density Logging Method Based on Gamma-Ray Spectra and Machine Learning

However, NGD faces several challenges associated with gamma-ray generation and attenuation complexities. Unlike GGD, which utilizes 0.662 MeV monoenergetic γ rays from a 137 Cs source, NGD employs ...
IFLScience

Have We Finally "Seen" Dark Matter? Galactic Gamma-Ray Halo May Be First Direct Evidence Of Universe’s Invisible "Glue"

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The Debrief

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope Detects Possible First Direct Evidence of Dark Matter

NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have detected the first direct evidence for dark matter, according to a University of Tokyo astronomer. The existence of dark matter is an essential ...