The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

学内での研究を事業移転し、創業する大学発ベンチャー。ここ数年特に、テクノロジーの分野において、めざましい成果を上げている。 今回ご紹介するのは、2016年に設立された岩手大学発のベンチャー「エイシング」。同社が開発した「Deep Binary Tree（以下 ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star companion. The discovery of this unusual binary system helps confirm a long ...

A bizarre planet defies cosmic norms: scientists have confirmed a giant planet orbiting in reverse around one star in a close binary system—an arrangement previously thought impossible. Using advanced ...

An international team of astronomers has performed multiwavelength observations of a gamma-ray binary system known as HESS J0632+057. Results of the observational campaign, presented July 31 on the ...

The binary star system NGC 3603-A1 is one of the most massive binaries ever discovered in the Milky Way Galaxy. The region around NGC 3603 is surrounded by ionized hydrogen gas, shown in red. The star ...