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ALMA Wants to Be Finland’s First Major Pop Star
The Nordic country's pop impact has often come second to its Swedish neighbors, but this 21-year-old is set on taking her sound worldwide.
Supermassive Black Holes Don’t Just Destroy Stars—They Help Form New Ones
Black holes regulate the galaxies around them.
An Earth-Sized Telescope Is About to 'See' a Black Hole For the First Time
Chile’s ALMA telescope array is supercharging the quest to image a black hole.
This Dish of Chickpeas, Chorizo, and Mexican Beer Will Heal You After a Rough Night
It’s got enough calories in it for a full day’s work on a farm, but odds are you’re going to crawl right back into bed after making it.
LA’s Best Chefs Are Collaborating on Crazy Doughnuts
Chef Ari Taymor is wrangling talent for a new series, Doughnuts With Friends, at Alma at The Standard’s Sunday brunch in Los Angeles.
Black Hole Rain Is Like Normal Rain, Only Light-Years in Scale
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array have identified an awesome new form of cosmic weather.
How Being Named the 'Best New Restaurant in America' Hurt My Business
After the press, people wouldn’t come in with the same open-minded attitude, or just to enjoy a meal out with their friends. It seemed like they came in just to write a shitty review about us on Yelp.
Astronomers Capture the Birth of the Universe’s First ‘Normal’ Galaxies
“For the first time we are seeing early galaxies not merely as tiny blobs, but as objects with internal structure!”
A Cosmic ‘Dinosaur Egg’ Is Hatching Between Colliding Galaxies
For the first time ever, astronomers have discovered a globular star cluster in its prenatal phase.
Chef's Night Out: The Badmaash Brothers
Arjun and Nakul Mahendro of LA’s Badmaash take us on a wild night out in Downtown LA, eating their way through everything from wagyu tartare to ice cream sandwiches.
Playing Hacker With Billion-Dollar Telescopes
Engineer Danielle George, who will present the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures on hacking, repurposes tech used to listen for the Big Bang for earthly applications.
This Is the Best Image Ever of a Planet Being Born
Which is just what you’d expect from the most powerful, largest, and most expensive telescope on Earth.