(Bloomberg) — A senior Labour Party lawmaker has urged caution against taking a binary approach to China, brushing back political pressure in the UK to clamp down on Beijing. Most Read from Bloomberg Jonathan Reynolds, who speaks on business for the opposition, said there were real concerns in some areas, but that China was one […]
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a whimper, not a bang, and sink into a black hole of their own making without the light and fury of a supernova. To understand why this is important, we must begin with a crash course on stellar evolution. Stars generate energy […]
Black hole week reaches its conclusion today (May 10), and there’s no better way to mark the occasion than with some “eggs-traordinary” black hole science. Using gravitational wave measurements by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), based in the U.S., and the Virgo and KAGRA detectors, located in Italy and Japan, respectively, scientists have found […]
Shares of Tesla (TSLA) are under pressure as the Justice Department investigates whether Tesla committed wire and securities fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, Reuters reports. Barclays Senior Autos Analyst Dan Levy joins Catalysts to give insight into Tesla and the pressure the company is under as uncertainty grows […]
Irish actress Nicola Coughlan has spoken of the difficulties of dealing with fame and the negative side of social media which has seen opinions thrown at her like “grenades”. The 37-year-old Galway-born star is known for playing self-conscious Penelope Featherington in Netflix Regency drama Bridgerton and naive Clare Devlin in Northern Ireland-set comedy Derry Girls, […]
Some 90s trends have made very welcome comebacks; others, no one needs to see ever again. Unlike frosted tips, baggy Tie-Dye shirts, landline phones and pogs, however, which have (hopefully?) been consigned to the dustbin, binary stars are resurfacing as worthy of study. And not a moment too soon. In short, binary stars are vital […]