Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...
Annotating the margins of books is an important part of deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and ...
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...
Paper airplanes flew, scientists sang about stomach bugs and one person dressed as a giant ball of mozzarella: Last Thursday, the 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony honored strange scientific pursuits with ...
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Ryan P. Cruz is a homegrown journalist, born and raised in Santa Barbara. Since joining the Santa Barbara Independent in 2021, he has covered a broad range of topics, including city government, ...