At the tiniest scales, our intuitive view of reality breaks down. It’s almost as if physics is fundamentally indecisive, a truth that becomes increasingly difficult to ignore as we zoom in on the particles that pixelate our universe. To understand it better, physicists had to come up with an entirely new framework to fit it … Read more
While none of the interplanetary missions have found traces of life on Mars, both the Viking and China’s Zhurong rovers have discovered astonishing features of the Red Planet that could provide insight into its history and evolution. When Zhurong, China’s first-ever Mars landing mission, orbited the Red Planet for a year, it saw something surreal … Read more
The closer you look at the universe, the more mysterious it seems. NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission recently revealed bizarre C- and X-shaped structures floating in the electrified layer of the ionosphere. “Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup?” NASA wrote about the sighting on its website. The … Read more
It is the world’s most coveted wallet – and can only be purchased from the illustrious French manufacturer by invitation. And now, fashion insiders have revealed the fascinating secrets of the coveted Hermès Birkin bags, which wealthy bag lovers are eager to buy. Made from materials such as crocodile and alligator skins, as well as … Read more
What if it is likely that a newly discovered asteroid will hit Earth in fourteen years? But that is not everything. This menacing space rock, with a diameter of about 330 to 1,050 feet (or 100 to 320 meters), has just disappeared behind the sun, making crucial observations impossible for the next seven months. In … Read more
A new, spectacularly decorated dinosaur has been named after Montana, and it’s part of a rapidly evolving story that shows strong region-specific evolution in this group of giant herbivores. Called Lokiceratops rangiformis by Mark Loewen and colleagues in the open access journal PeerJthe new dinosaur is a ceratopsid – a four-legged, horned herbivore that resembles … Read more
Researchers have uncovered the details of how sound behaves at different times and places Mars – and the results are very different from what we are used to on Earth. NASAs Perseverance robber on Mars has different microphones. These devices, intended to study the properties of materials on the Red Planet, have picked up all … Read more
Enlarge / The echidna, an egg-laying mammal, does not develop teeth. Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of producing live young. Only two species of monotremes still exist, the platypus and the echidna, but about 100 million years ago there were more monotreme species. Some of them may be even stranger than their descendants. … Read more
Google has finally addressed the out-of-control web search results apparently generated by its AI, screenshots of which circulated widely on social media over the past week. In short, the internet goliath argued that it’s not as bad as it seems, although he promised to eliminate the system’s baffling responses. For those who missed it, Google … Read more
One of the most special things about Uranus and Neptune is their magnetic fields. Each of these planets has a hot mess of a magnetosphere, deviated and wildly tilted from its axis of rotation in a way not seen on any other planet. It’s not entirely clear why, but thanks to a team of researchers … Read more