The Universe Is Abuzz with Giant Gravitationa...

From the mystery of why elevator waits feel endless to the surprisingly tricky problem of splitting a pizza (or even a sandwich) fairly, this episode explores how math shapes everyday experiences in ways you might not expect. Host Rachel Feltman talks with physicist and editor Ma ...  Show more

In this episode of Science Quickly, host Rachel Feltman and Scientific American senior desk editor for health and medicine Tanya Lewis break down the fast-growing Ebola outbreak—caused by a viral species with no approved vaccine—in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. ...  Show more

What the new discovery of gravitational wave imprints in pulsar signals can reveal about the cosmos 

<span>Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.</span>

It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

Dans le cadre de sa théorie de la relativité générale, Einstein avait prédit, dès 1916, l'existence des ondes gravitationnelles. Mais il a fallu attendre 2015 pour que ces oscillations de l'espace-temps soient détectées par des appareils spécifiques.

Qu'est-ce que le ...