This animated graph displays the frequency and signal strength of gravitational waves using a simulated dataset of galactic ultracompact binaries. The colors on the graph indicate frequencies ranging from about 0.001 to 0.01 hertz, with lighter colors representing higher frequencies. The dashed curve shows the expected sensitivity limit of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, which is currently being designed by the ESA (European Space Agency) in collaboration with NASA for launch in the 2030s. Credit NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Visualizer James Ira Thorpe (NASA/GSFC) [Lead] Producer Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)

Simulation of the 2022 Tonga volcano explosion showing the atmospheric wave and generated tsunami waves using a new model developed at OIST (right) in comparison with global infra-red satellite data of the event (left).

The findings are featured on the cover of the journal Cancer Cell • The authors of the study, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), suggest that cognitive loss in patients with brain metastases may be due to the interference that cancer produces in neuronal circuits. • When cancer spreads in the brain, it changes the brain’s chemistry, interfering with the communication between neurons. This is a very different hypothesis from the one previously accepted, with implications for the diagnosis and treatment of brain metastases. © Atlas / CNIO

Scientists at McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used artificial intelligence to discover a new antibiotic that could be used to fight a deadly, drug-resistant pathogen that strikes vulnerable hospital patients.

Northwestern astrophysicists developed the first numerical simulation that follows the jet evolution in a black hole-neutron star merger out to large distances. Using this model, the researchers discovered that the post-merger black hole can launch jets of material from the swallowed neutron star. Credit: Ore Gottlieb/Danat Issa/Alexander Tchekhovskoy

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva, P. Marenfeld, NASA/JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt (IPAC). Music: zero-project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr).

NASA’s new 3-dimensional portrait of methane shows the world’s second-largest contributor to greenhouse warming as it travels through the atmosphere. Combining multiple data sets from emissions inventories and simulations of wetlands into a high-resolution computer model, researchers now have an additional tool for understanding this complex gas and its role in Earth’s carbon cycle, atmospheric composition, and climate system. The new data visualization builds a fuller picture of the diversity of methane sources on the ground as well as the behavior of the gas as it moves through the atmosphere.

This is a demonstration of a point-matching algorithm, Bayesian coherent point drift.

Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black hole's extreme gravity alters the paths of light coming from different parts of the disk, producing the warped image. The black hole's extreme gravitational field redirects and distorts the light coming from different parts of the disk, but exactly what we see depends on our viewing angle. The greatest distortion occurs when viewing the system nearly edgewise.