Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Ripples in spacetime itself! Ever heard of GRAVITATIONAL WAVES? Michael Lam doesn’t just discover gravitational waves with instruments on Earth or in space; he uses pulsars to find them and pinpoints individual locations where space is compressing and stretching, amongst a noisy background hum.

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