Articles by

Elise Cutts

A rare glimpse at a relatively nearby supernova offers clues to how stars die

In May, a star in the Pinwheel galaxy exploded in just the right place at nearly the...

In a first, astronomers spot the afterglow of an exoplanet collision

In a solar system about 1,800 light-years from Earth, two planets smacked into one another in an...

This ‘polar ring’ galaxy looks like an eye. Others might be hiding in plain sight

It’s big. It’s beautiful. It looks a bit like a sparkly, starry, slightly smooshed Eye of Sauron....

Your brain wires itself to match your native language

The language we learn growing up seems to leave a lasting, biological imprint on our brains. German...

Astronomers spotted shock waves shaking the web of the universe for the first time

For the first time, astronomers have caught a glimpse of shock waves rippling along strands of the...

Some ‘friendly’ bacteria backstab their algal pals. Now we know why

The photosynthesizing plankton Emiliania huxleyi has a dramatic relationship with its bacterial frenemies. These duplicitous bugs help...

These adorable Australian spike-balls beat the heat with snot bubbles

Animals cover themselves in all kinds of unsavory fluids to keep cool. Humans sweat, kangaroos spit and...

Here’s how mysterious last-resort antibiotics kill bacteria

To kill drug-resistant bacteria, “last-resort” antibiotics borrow a tactic from Medusa’s playbook: petrification. New high-resolution microscope images...