... curiously picky about where they explode. Shunning spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, gamma-ray bursts prefer to 'go off' in oddball star systems that astronomers are just beginning to understand.
It took a real oddball of a star--or rather, pair of stars--to provide the exceptional conditions that made detection possible of the intermediate stage of planet formation by a team of astronomers, ...
... sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile. Nature's instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a mishmash.
An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about ...
... the most variability were placed in a second group for analysis purposes. During an auditory oddball paradigm task, children were asked to attend to frequently and infrequently occurring tones.
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... due to interactions between up- and down-spinning electrons. This explanation means that the oddball conductance plateau can be read using Bird's method and provides an explanation for the electron- ...
From platypus to star-nosed mole, wildlife never looked so wild: Check out our selection of the world's 10 oddest-looking species.
... most different from the others – like lianas.
"If you can't figure out what's going on in the ecological system, then look at the oddball, the deviant– something that doesn't fit the model," he says.
A grenade that puts out fires, a self-pouring teapot, periscope spectacles, a peach peeler and a moustache protector are among oddball inventions on show at the British Library.
Computer help desks are used to fielding oddball requests but sometimes the questions leave even the best of them stumped.
Ig Nobel awards honor oddball scientific discoveries.
There's a universal tendency to heed Dylan Thomas's exhortation and go out with a bang instead of a whimper. Nowhere is this more evident than deep in the cosmos.
Relationships between globular cluster mass and number of binary star systems points to stellar cannibalism as source of 'blue stragglers'.
A top doctor who is also a member of Britain's House of Lords has admitted to a prank 34 years ago -- inventing an oddball medical condition called "cello scrotum."
... all its own. Tuataras are most closely related to lizards and snakes, but in some ways they are oddballs among reptiles, with unique characteristics among reptiles, like their affinity for cool ...
