What Science Says About Astrology Carlos Orsi Columbia Univ. Press (2026) Seventeenth-century astronomers Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler were active astrologers. But in the Age of Enlightenment during the eighteenth century, astrology was relegated to a pseudoscience. Today, notes science writer Carlos Orsi in his engaging study of the relationship between astrology and science, astrologers
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they have seen before. Astronomers suggest these newly spotted objects in other galaxies may help solve not one, but two long-standing questions in astrophysics. These mysterious objects give off unusually low-energy X-rays but intense levels of ultraviolet radiation. This
A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it. Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a “stealth model” from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it as a “reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. It is suited for
Explanation: Whatdunit? What disappeared while crossing a partially eclipsed Sun? Let’s present the evidence. The 24 frames-per-second video was taken in Spain (40°34’30.3″N 1°12’28.8″W) at 20:28 local time on August 12, 2026. The Perseids meteor shower was at its peak during this time. Is this a meteor? Meteor showers trace back to a region of
Earlier this month, Google announced multiple new devices at its Made by Google event, including Pixel 11 phones and the Pixel Watch 5. Back in May, the company also released its screenless Fitbit Air health tracker. But we still haven’t heard anything about the new mystery product that’s appeared in recent Google ads. A Reddit
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Glueballs are made of gluons, which bind quarks to form protons and neutrons.Credit: Sefa kart/Getty A team of physicists says it has observed strong evidence of a mysterious ‘glueball’, a particle made up of force-carrying gluons.
