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A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the universe's rarest explosions - Phys.org
Astronomers may have discovered one of the clearest examples yet of a rare “pair-instability” supernova. It is a catastrophic explosion thought to completely destroy some of the most massive stars in the universe, leaving behind no remnant. The paper outlinin…
Honeybees can recognize human faces — they can be trained to distinguish between individual humans by face and continue to recognize them across different viewpoints, despite having a brain smaller than the head of a pin - Space Daily
The standard popular framing of human facial recognition treats it as a problem so complex that large brains and specialised neural regions are required to solve it. The human fusiform face area, a section of the temporal lobe that activates specifically when…
There is a fish that can live more than a hundred years — the rougheye rockfish, which inhabits the deep waters of the North Pacific — and the slow rate at which it grows, breeds, and ages means that some of the individuals being caught by fishermen today w - Space Daily
In the deep, cold waters of the North Pacific, between Japan and the Aleutian Islands, lives a slow-growing red fish called the rougheye rockfish, Sebastes aleutianus. The species has been on the menu in restaurants from Vancouver to Seoul for decades, usuall…
There are about 20 quadrillion ants alive on Earth at any moment — enough that their combined biomass outweighs every wild bird and mammal on the planet combined, even though the often-repeated claim that ant biomass equals human biomass has been - Space Daily
The 2022 paper that established the modern estimate of how many ants are alive on Earth was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Patrick Schultheiss, Sabine Nooten and colleagues. The work was conducted at the University of Hong…
Scientists Find Cosmic 'Rosetta Stone' To Decode Baffling Signals From Deep Space - ScienceAlert
Just a few years ago, a strange signal was received from the plane of the Milky Way.
Student astronomer discovers 'Rosetta Stone' for mysterious cosmic signals - Phys.org
An international team led by astronomers at the University of Sydney has uncovered the clearest evidence yet for the origin of an unusual class of cosmic signals. In doing so, they have identified a rare stellar system that is providing scientists with a natu…