Matt von Hippel
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for New Scientist
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 23, 2026
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Gamma ray burst may have been two supernovae in one | New Scientist (opens the original)
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On New Year’s Day in 2022, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected a massive burst of gamma rays from a distant galaxy. After four years of analysis, a group of astronomers has proposed a dramatic story for the burst of light – known as GRB 220101A – in which a collapsing star triggered the formation of both a pulsar and a black hole. The event began, according to a team led by Remo Ruffini, an astronomer at the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Network in Italy, with the co
Pygmy raccoons teach each other to make toys out of paper and sand | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Young pygmy raccoons on a Mexican island have been seen teaching each other to make toy balls out of rubbish, in a rare example of animals crafting objects purely to play with. “My first reaction was, oh my gosh, that’s absolutely adorable!” says Nessie O’Neil at Miami University in Ohio, who is researching the impact of tourism on the critically endangered pygmy raccoons (Procyon pygmaeus) of Cozumel Island. Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why O’Neil filmed as
'Not-quite primordial' black holes may explain baffling JWST discovery | New Scientist (opens the original)
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There may have been black holes in the early universe before the first stars, and a group of theoretical physicists has proposed a new way to explain how they could have formed using the heat of the cosmic microwave background. The idea may be a better explanation for the “little red dots” identified by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – distant galaxies that seem to host surprisingly large numbers of astonishingly ancient black holes. “James Webb is discovering many more black holes than m
Dark energy doesn’t exist, claims controversial paper (opens the original)
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An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy to exist to explain it
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