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Barnard’s Star Contains Inhospitable Exoplanets—But They Could Still Tell Us Something Important in the Search for ET
10+ hour, 43+ min ago (634+ words) The small exoplanets of our Sun’s second-nearest neighbor, Barnard’s Star, are inhospitable wastelands, British astronomers say. After careful analysis, the astronomers announced that the exoplanets are unlike any in our solar system, presenting a brutal and barren environment. Scientists only…...
The Wackers’ Decades-Long Harassment Was One of Unsolved Mysteries’ Strangest Cases—New Information Has Finally Come to Light
12+ hour, 52+ min ago (1058+ words) For the last 22 years, one of the most bizarre true crime stories ever to grace the program Unsolved Mysteries has confounded amateur investigators and spawned hundreds of pages of online speculation. Who was behind the decade-long torment of Bill and…...
In One of Africa’s Deepest Lakes, Scientists Have Found a Species No One Expected Swimming at Incredible Depths
12+ hour, 52+ min ago (517+ words) A remarkable discovery has been made in East Africa’s Lake Malawi, one of the deepest bodies of water on the African continent. Africa’s impressive lakes have long remained a focus of speculation for naturalists, involving folklore about strange creatures—including…...
NASA's Bennu Samples Reveal Tiny Ancient Clues About the Asteroid's Long-Lost Origins
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (974+ words) When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered pristine samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023, scientists knew they were receiving one of the most chemically untouched collections of material ever recovered from the Solar System. Since then, the returned grains…...
The 5,700-Year-Old Psychedelic Drug Mescaline Finally Got a Modern Brain Scan, And The Results Were Unexpected
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (995+ words) The first proper brain scan of mescaline found the drug ignoring the regions where psychedelic research has spent a decade studying, settling instead on the one structure no one really expected. Sometime around 3,700 BC, someone in what is now southwest…...
U.S. Space Development Agency Orders 36 Space Vehicles for Defense Against Missile Attacks
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (421+ words) The United States Space Development Agency (SDA), in support of the U.S. Space Force, has awarded contracts to L3Harris Technologies and Sierra Space Corporation to build and deliver 36 Accelerated Missile Defense Tranche 3 (AMDT3) space vehicles (SVs) designed to operate in four distinct orbital…...
“That’s No Moon!”: Astronomers Vexed by “Super Weird” Moon-Like Object Without a Planet
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (560+ words) Scientists working at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have detected evidence for an unusual, ‘moon-like object’ in the CD-35 2722 system that doesn’t appear to orbit a planet. The research team behind the discovery said…...
Researchers Say Two ‘Ancient Ramps’ Beside Egypt’s Red Pyramid May Actually Be Something Far More Significant
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (943+ words) For more than a century, two enormous structures cutting across the desert southwest of Egypt’s famous Red Pyramid have been assumed to be ancient transport features—perhaps roads or ramps used to haul limestone blocks during pyramid construction. However, a…...
New Gravity Theory Suggests How Cosmic Order Emerges Despite Rising Entropy
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (376+ words) Galaxies, stars, and living cells are all examples of local order emerging in the universe. At first glance, that seems to contradict one of physics’ oldest principles. However, a recent study in Physical Review D offers a mathematical explanation for…...
How Did Fish Suddenly Appear in the Empty Waters of Ancient Norwegian Lakes? A 7000-Year-Old Archaeological Discovery Provides the Answer
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (556+ words) In the millennia that followed the last Ice Age, early humans began making their way into the inland mountains of southern Norway as ancient glaciers receded, revealing new portions of the landscape. However, the landscape in this region made it…...