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‘Bizarre’ planet orbiting dead star may preview fate of our solar system - CNN
A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of our own solar system when the sun dies.
A Sea Anemone Uses CARDIB to Fight Viruses—and It’s Even More Bizarre Than It Sounds - Gizmodo
Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that researchers called “counterintuitive.”
Scientists uncover why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic - Phys.org
Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international research, published in Science, helps solve one of climate science’s longest-standing puzzles: how a vast ice sheet could form when Earth wa…
Scientists Find the Grossest, Most Efficient Way to Clean a Skeleton - Gizmodo
An all-natural solution at its finest.
A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy cluster has erupted after approximately 100 million years of complete silence, unleashing a jet of magnetised plasma across nearly a million light-years of space in what the astronomers who observed it have descr - Space Daily
Every large galaxy in the observable universe is thought to host a supermassive black hole at its centre. Most of the time, on the available observational evidence, these black holes are dormant. They accrete only tiny amounts of matter from their immediate s…
Quantum gravity tests may mistake ordinary spacetime for superposition - Phys.org
Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful theories of physics: quantum mechanics and gravity. Quantum mechanics explains the behavior of the microscopic world, while Einstein’s theory…