You don’t have the cancer look.” After my out-of-the-blue diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer, I got stupefying comments of this sort, or the more colloquial “You don’t look cancery,” from even my most ...

For more than 20 years, astronomers have been puzzled by a striking pattern of bright, evenly spaced stripes in the radio waves coming from the Crab ...

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...