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Astronomy’s Most Perfect Ring Galaxy, Hoag’s Object, Is Still A Mystery After 70 Years
We still don’t know how it came to be this way. Read more at Forbes…
350 elephants drop dead in Botswana, some walking in circles before doing face-plants
No one knows why. Read more at livescience.com…
Astronauts bound for Mars should swing by Venus first, scientists say
It could be cheaper, faster and two planets for the cost of one. Read more at…
Yes, There Really Could Be Life In The Cloud Tops Of Venus
Here’s how the closest place to “hell” in our Solar System might actually be home to…
Mysterious Emergence of Pink Ice in The Alps Could Have Dire Consequences
Scientists in Italy are investigating the mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused…
Rocket Lab launch fails during rocket’s second stage burn, causing a loss of vehicle and payloads – TechCrunch
Rocket Lab’s ‘Pic or it didn’t happen’ launch on Saturday ended in failure, with a total…
Mars crater key to human colonisation in space captured in never-before-seen video – WATCH
FOOTAGE of an icy Martian canyon – understood to be a likely source of water for…
Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations
If you studied algebra in high school (or you’re learning it right now), there’s a good…
Hubble just snapped one of its greatest images ever
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a distant galaxy called NGC 2775 that sits…
Jupiter Just Sprouted a Brand New Spot
An amateur astronomer in South Africa has detected a bright new surface feature rising above the…
Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
The basic idea behind all nuclear power plants is the same: convert the heat created by…
UN reports global e-waste production soared beyond 53 million tonnes in 2019 | ZDNet
That’s equivalent to the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2.…
Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolution
Solar energy researchers at Oregon State University are shining their scientific spotlight on materials with a…
Tabletop quantum experiment could detect gravitational waves
Predicted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, gravitational waves are ripples in space-time generated by certain…
The fastest-growing black hole in the universe devours the equivalent of one sun every damn day
A study published yesterday in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for the first…
Human-induced climate change reversed 6,500-year global cooling trend
What would Earth’s climate naturally be doing if it weren’t for human intervention? Researchers at Northern…
Theorists calculate upper limit for possible quantization of time
A trio of theoretical physicists at the Pennsylvania State University has calculated the upper limit for…
Japanese Dark Matter Detector is Seeing a “Surprising Excess of Events” – Universe Today
A search for dark matter has found an extra signal in their data that could point…
The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19
The outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic begins to slow (and eventually ceases altogether) because enough people…